Audio Drums

If you like Koop, Waldeck, Nicola Conte you’ll enjoy this track by King Kooba. This track as a nice hip, jazzy, downtempo vibe with breathy vocals.

A little more info from King Kooba’s wiki:

King Kooba is the duo of producer Matt Harris (DJ Shuff) and Charlie Tate. They are an electronica DJ duo from the United Kingdom. Legend says that they were formed over a pint of beer at Charlie’s Mom’s pub in London, England. They are currently signed to the Om Records label, and have done work for many of their compilations, such as the Om Lounge series. Their style consists of

a mixture of funk, soul, latin, jazz, and hip hop, with some electronic elements such as synthesizers and drum machines. Some of their music, such as the song “Blue Mosque”, are influenced by Middle Eastern.

[audio:http://www.audiodrums.com/audio/King_Kooba_ Fooling_Myself_Easy_Access_Orchestra_Mix.mp3]

[download]

[myspace]

  From Australia comes Hermitude with their Trip Hop/Jazz/Koop influenced downtempo grooves.

Solid production from the boys from downunder who are currently signed to Elefant Traks.  They have also just released a new EP titled, “Rare Sightings”

 [audio:http://highrize.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/hermitude-dubs-theme.mp3]

[download]

[myspace]

Buy Album: Rare Sightings

Da Sunlounge aka Simon Newby from the UK creats downtempo breakbeat house with soul flavorings.

 [audio:http://highrize.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/dasunloungerudejazz.mp3]

[download]

[myspace]

Nice laid back jam from Flying Lotus.  Flying Lotus is known primarily as the artist who produces many of the bumpers on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. His great-aunt is the late Alice Coltrane.

[audio:http://highrize.wordpress.com/files/2007/11/flying-lotus-tea-leaf-dancers.mp3]

[download]

[myspace]

Buy Album:Reset EP

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.).

[audio:http://highrize.wordpress.com/files/2007/10/02-again-feat-adel-tawil.mp3]

[download]

Buy Album: Genuine Horizon

Listen to Chris at his myspace page.

The Moontrane Conductors - Never The SunOrgans, melody, and echoey vocals what’s not to love. This track was taken from their 2004 release called EmptySea.

The entire album can be previewed at CD Baby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/moontrane

Isabelle Antena - Omerta (Bossa remix by nicola conte)

This is a groovy down tempo brazilian bossa nova jazz track to start your day off right. Has a very Koop sound to the track.