Question of the Day:  What do you get when you cross Metro Area with the Junior Boys?
A: You get the latest album from Morgan Geist titled, “Double Night Time” of course, which has Jeremey Greenspan providing vocals on nearly all the tracks.

Below is my favorite track from this album called “The Shore”.

Tracklisting
01. Detroit
02. The Shore
03. Nocebo
04. Most Of All
05. Skyblue Pink
06. Ruthless City
07. Palace Life
08. City Of Smoke And Flame
09. Lullaby

review from Allmusic.com

At the outset, Double Night Time might be met with some degree of slight, partially greed-related aggravation. Morgan Geist’s first true solo album since 1997′s lost classic The Driving Memoirs, nearly half of it is made from previously released material, and its featured vocalist is Jeremy Greenspan, whose Junior Boys — more so than ever here — are stylistic peers. It could be speculated that, several years removed from peaking in notoriety with the Metro Area full-length, Geist wanted to make a Junior Boys album, yet the seed for this set was more likely planted with “Ghost Trains.” A darkly shimmering track Geist produced for Erlend Øye’s Unrest album, that song predated the JBs’ debut, indicating Geist’s shift from Metro Area’s modern post-disco/pre-house to winsome electronic pop with vocals.

Five years later, he finally explores the form to its full album-length extent. Ultimately a modest and compulsively listenable set of nocturnal electronic lullabies, Double Night Time’s use of two- and seven-year-old tracks is not unwarranted. Opener “Detroit” cleverly incorporates the zapping/prickling glow of 2001′s “24K,” while Greenspan, barely above a whisper, sets the album’s tone by romanticizing night drives to a vibrant motor city clubbing scene.

Both sides of the 2006 “Most of All” 12″ are tucked in the middle, like an old XTC reissue, but they slip snugly into the album’s fabric; in fact, the reprised A-side is as representative of Geist’s approach as anything else he has released, fitting several ideas into a direct and compact piece that could be heard as glum just as easily as giddy, and not without evidence of twisted humor. “Lullaby,” from the same Environ 12″ as “24K,” is Kraftwerk’s “Numbers” made florid (with surprisingly congruent trumpet), where Geist is at his most emotionally sweet. The new tracks are equally insidious and moving, with “The Shore” coming on like a more active version of “Ghost Trains” and “Ruthless City” a roguishly charming heartbreak ballad: “When I woke up the next day, bleeding on the sidewalk/It was then I knew, without a doubt/I had finally found a mate.”

Morgan Geist – The Shore (ft. Jeremy Greenspan of Junior Boys)

Don’t know too much about HiFi Hustlers other than this track is groovy and dub all at the same time. Found this up on www.thesixtyone.com. You can download for FREE their entire EP here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/HiFi_Hustlers

According to their myspace page, they are from the UK and San Francisco.

HiFi Hustlers – Power Version

Great mellow track with minimal elecrtronic elements off set by a great vocal performance.

taken from www.thesixtyone.com:

“Merz aka Conrad Lambert has a life as unorthodox as his music. He began his travels at 18, after his schooling in West Yorkshire, and has made friends in 48 countries. His parents live in Mongolia, his grandmother was born in Babylon (Long Island that is). He’s currently settled in Bristol, where, distanced from the industry, he writes his curious music.” NME

“A maverick with three decades of cultural exploring behind him, Conrad Lambert is a post-pop auteur with a distinctive croaky voice and oodles of left-field ideas.” UNCUT

“In the airbrushed teen market, he might be deemed no oil painting, but to the trained eye he resembles Vincint Van Gogh. Lend him your ears.” EVENING STANDARD.

1 “merz makes unique, untainted music that’s a hurricane of fresh air” cd of the week, The Independent.

2 “a master of modern folk” i-D magazine.

3 “merz sounds like nobody else in the world and the world would be alright if it listened to nobody else. We absolutely love him.” Coldplay

4 “merz is passionate music with heart for a musically sophisticated audience” Pure Magazine

5 “what makes merz great are his songs – earnest, poetic pleas that impact a sense of hope and well being” Flipside

6 “merz’s debut should be cherished….it will leave you bewitched” cd of the week, The Guardian.

7 “Already critically acclaimed as Britains answer to Beck, Merz is actually more tortured and less ironic… a breathless, confident vocal. Extraordinary and original…” (5/5) Heat

8 “he’s living in cloud cuckoo land” The Sun

Myspace dossing about can be found here: www.myspace.com/merzuk

Merz – Postcard From a Dark Star

Chris Zippel from Germany has just release his album entitled, “Genuine Horizon”.  Album is very chilled out and downtempo electronica.  Vocals on this track provided by Adel Tawil (one half of the german group, Ich + Ich.).

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Listen to Chris at his myspace page.