Late Summer Holiday
Eleven tracks designed for listening on the beach or by the pool. Nothing but bright sunshine and optimism.You by Gold Panda
[BBC] Gold Panda is a left-field producer and remixer called Derwin who makes instrumental soundtracks to half-remembered, dreamy summer days. He scours charity shops for old records and VHS tapes to turn into distorted samples, and wraps them in minimal, warm beats.
He is obsessed with Japan and its culture, and once sold his entire record collection to pay for a Japanese diploma at the School of Oriental and African Studies, before moving there for a year.
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[Wikipedia] Little Dragon is an electronic music band, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It consists of Swedish-Japanese singer Yukimi Nagano (vocals, percussion) and her close high-school friends Erik Bodin (drums), Captain Källgren Crunch (bass), and Håkan Wirenstrand (keyboards). The first Little Dragon's release was a double A-side 7" single "Twice"/"Test", released on Off The Wall label in 2006. The following year, the band signed with the larger British indie Peacefrog Records and released their debut self-titled album Little Dragon on September 3, 2007.
[Guardian] Muchuu (pronounced "Moo-chew") are a brother-sister duo from Herefordshire. Milky is 20 and sings in a dizzy ickle-gurly voice that evokes those high-pitched singers from the 1980s, such as Clare Grogan of Altered Images and the Strawberry Switchblade girls, which either moved you or filled you with homicidal loathing. George– who hilariously calls himself G-man – is 18 and supplies the beats and melodic synth lines using a keyboard he bought for £29 on which you can apparently only play three notes at a time.
[Wikipedia] 808 State are a British electronic music outfit, formed in 1987 in Manchester, taking their name from the Roland TR-808 drum machine. They were formed by Graham Massey, Martin Price and Gerald Simpson, and they released their debut Newbuild in September 1988. The band secured commercial success in 1989, when their song "Pacific State" was picked up by BBC Radio 1 DJ Gary Davies
[Wikipedia] Kieran Hebden (born 1977, Putney, London, England, United Kingdom) is a post-rock and electronic musician. Hebden first came to prominence as a member of the band Fridge before establishing himself as a solo artist under the moniker of Four Tet.
Hebden's music typically eschews the traditional pop song format in favour of a more abstract approach—his sound and melodies incorporate elements of hip hop, electronica, techno, jazz, and folk music with live instrumentation.
[Wikipedia] Matthew Herbert (born 1972), also known as Herbert, Doctor Rockit, Radio Boy, Mr. Vertigo, Transformer, and Wishmountain, is a British electronic musician. His avant-garde electronic work, influenced by the techniques of musique concrète, helped pioneer the microhouse genre.
[Wikipedia] John McEntire (born April 9, 1970 in Portland, Oregon) is an American recording engineer, drummer and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for being in Tortoise and The Sea and Cake, as well as being a highly in-demand producer and engineer.
McEntire started playing drums at age 10. Throughout high school, he performed in several award-winning marching bands and studied privately for seven years. He went on to attend Oberlin College initially as a percussion major, but eventually switched to study in the school's then newly-created program for Technology in Music and Related Arts.
Deep and Wide is Lennart Krarup (aka Lenny Ibizarre) together with Bruno Lepretre, the resident DJ at Café Del Mar.
Things are gonna get easier by Low Motion Disco
[Last.fm] Low Motion Disco are a press-shy duo out of Switzerland who produce downtempo instrumentals that combine old-school dub techniques, ambient field recordings, a love for classic soul and r&b (their track “Things Are Gonna Get Easier” is a rework of “Ooh Child”), and the slow-motion rhythms of hearts beating at rest. Their debut long-player Keep It Slow was released in June 2008 by Eskimo Recordings.
Not much to be found online about this act, the track Homecoming was part of Lo Recordings Extreme Possibilities compilation, the principal artist; Laurence Elliott-Potter, is better known as the trance artist Larry Lush
Adios Ayer by Jose Padilla
[MySpace] José Padilla is a Spanish disc jockey and producer of ambient music. He is best known for his work as DJ in the Café del Mar bar in the island of Ibiza, and is considered responsible for popularizing electronic chill-out music. Born in Barcelona, Padilla moved to Ibiza in 1975, taking up the DJ residency at Cafe del Mar in 1991. In 1994, he compiled the first Cafe del Mar album for the React label. The series is now in its 13th volume and has spun off several related compilations, as well as leading to the creating of the bar's own eponymous label. Padilla selected tracks for the first six, as well as the 20th Anniversary commemorative release. While several tracks of Padilla's appeared in his various compilations, it wasn't until 1998 he released his first album, Souvenir, on label Mercury Records. The CD featured collaborations with several chill-out musicians, including Lenny Ibizarre and Paco Fernandez. His second album, Navigator, was released in 2001.
Gold Panda image by Mike Martin | Little Dragon image by Julien | Muchuu image from Last.fm | 808 State image by Steve | Fourtet image by Jonathan Fisher | Docktor Rockit image by Bruno Bollaert | John McEntire image from Discogs | Low Motion Disco image from Discogs | Jose Padilla image from DJ History
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