Ganga's Best Downbeat and Chill Out Music Picks

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So within a few months I will have a new Ganga album ready. As of now its not certain whether or not its going to be an actual album or the smaller sibling called an EP. It all depends how I am going to fit these last couple of tracks together. There are still quite a few openings left to be filled out – or left out. However one thing is certain. Its going to be a little less electronic and a bit more vocal than ”More light please”. That album was the most electronic Ganga album, and it was a reaction on the previous two more down tempo and more acoustic album. Already the second album ”Dont wake me up”, took a more electronic direction than the debut album ”I dream about trees” released on Music For Dreams 2005.

This is a normal direction I think, to go the other way once in a while. Unless you are only thinking about staying in your niche and keeping the same audience. This is important of course – keeping people interested, but it should never be the main concern for the artist. That way the content would loose all connections to the origin of the material. The actual material will start to mean less and less, and eventually over time people will notice this and start loosing interest. Just as the artist would do if his label urged him to go in a direction he didn t like.

One obvious advantage of being your own label boss. Downside is that the filter is gone, and you need to reach out to your colleagues or similar artists/friends to get the feedback that you used to get from your label.

There are several tracks where I provide the vocal in the ”old” Ganga style. Meaning a little vocal here and there as an extra spice. One track with a little more singing than less. Nearly a real song and then also one real song… imagine that J

Then San Francisco native Scheherazade Stone lays down a beautiful vocal on ”This time” and Norwegian Django from Django Novo has contributed with the vocal line on one track also.

Apart from that, old time collaborator Helle Chirholm joins in on a arabic inspired track and Gbatokai Dakinah (fretless bas) are also present on a few tracks.

All together a more slow, more ethnic and more vocal experience than the previous releases.

Release is june 1st in all major download shops. A soft but very breath taking album, an elegant blending with Jamaican flavours, haunting compositions, fluidity and clear light sound quality, their dub fades into electro-ambiant chamanism and becomes a magic sound installation »

From Le Monde to 20 Minutes, from Keyboards Magazine to Telerama, reviews of Dubphonic's "Smoke Signals " (2003) were all over positive. First album of the French trio after a cult 12" for the Chicago based label Guidance Recordings, called Smoke Signals, was entirely instrumental. It soon became a music supervisors favorite and tracks were being picked up for series such as "Six Feet Under " and "Dexter ".After a tour with the Japanese band Audio Active and a handful of concerts, and while their remix of Tosca's "Orozco " was being spun all around the world, the band went back into the studio in 2004.

If inspiration met the rendez-vous, Stefane Goldman (guitars/electronics), Alexis Mauri aka Alexkid (programming and production) and Sylvain Mosca (programming and electronics), they were not fully satisfied with the results and agreed that time would not be an issue. They wanted the best for their second album. Four years in-and-out of the studio later, eleven new compositions were completed and finalised for the fresh new album Relight. During the deliberatly slow creative process, four of these new pieces naturally evolved into songs with guest vocal performances by Cuban-American Liset Alea (previously heard on Alexkid's second and third album), Euro-American Daniella D'Ambrosio (Nouvelle Vague, Aswefall), Brasilian CÈu (whose new album Varagosa is about to be released in Europe) and English Mau (co-founder of Earthling and several other projects).

The band members plays most of the instruments and and writes most of the repertoire themselves. For certain special moments, they called in brilliant musicians such as Jean-Philippe Rykiel and Rodriguez Jr. on electric piano, Jérémie Poirier-Quinot on flute and Prince Zober on percussions. Their different inputs and the various palette of the guest singers/writers, enriches the bands unique sound while at the same time keeping the cinematic essence of their music, more obvious than ever in tracks like "Nora Sun", "Last Resort Hotel" or the magnificent closing number "Outland".Lala 2.0 – DePhazz and Pit Baumgartner makes some new noise.

This album from Pit Baumgartner finds its inspiration so many places its hard to find out where to begin. The Pit Baumgartner has created a new collection of very sou linspired tracks with many interesting vocal performances and a chopped up form of soul full grooves. Very jazzy stuff – very American actually.

Very old school funky grooves in many of these tracks. Check it out for yourself in this player.

Here is some new stuff about a very young producer that came out of nowhere earlier this year. Emancipator is his name – or his artist bame, played his first live show in July 2009, opening for Bonobo at Roseland Theater New York. Since then, he s toured with Bass nectar, STS9, Pretty Lights, and played at festivals like Trinumeral and Symbiosis, and closed out Sound Tribe Sector 9 s late night parties in Denver at the request of the band.

Emancipator self-released his first album, Soon It Will Be Cold Enough, at the age of 19 in 2006. His lovely melodies layered over, immaculately-produced beats captivated fans across the internet and across the world.

Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” was picked up by Japanese producer Nujabes, pressed in Japan and sold 5,000 copies in the first six months. Emancipator landed a Puma sponsorship, gave an interview to Rolling Stone Japan, discovered one of his songs was played at the Beijing Olympics (he is still trying to figure out how that happened) and his song Shook,” a mashup that perfectly mixes Mobb Deep s mighty raps with a Sigur Ros track, became the highest-rated song on Hype Machine s Best 50 Songs of 2007”. It also appeared on Hype Machine as the #2 most popular song in April 2009.

His latest album Safe In The Steep Cliffs” blends new instrumentation and organic samples with the signature Emancipator style of smooth clean production, silky melodies and addictive drums.

Dense layers of choirs, horns, American folk instruments such as banjo and mandolin, violin and some distinct Asian influences make for a playful but refined album. Built out of intricate tracks listeners can enjoy on as many levels as they want. Dance to it, chill out to it, immerse your mind in it.

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