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Here’s a cool down tempo jam for the after party — from Frenchman DJ CAM (aka Laurent Daumail).  This is from his last album released in 2007 called “Lost and Found”

From Last.fm:

Parisian hip-hop devotee Laurent Daumail is one of a few but growing number of French artists updating hip-hop for the chill-out crowd, drawing on the beats’n’samples groundwork of producers such as Rakim, DJ Premier, and Prince Paul and combining it with broad, impressionistic strokes of dub, jazz, and soundtrack-y ambience. Like countrymen the Mighty Bop and la Funk Mob, Cam is stylistically closest to Mo’Wax artists such as DJ Shadow and DJ Krush; minimalist, downbeat instrumental hip-hop built from obscure samples and stomp-box turntable accompaniment, bent and twisted into new, artfully arranged compositions.

His debut, 1994’s Underground Vibes, was released on the tiny French label Street Jazz and was followed by a live recording for the Inflammable imprint (one of only a few “live” recordings in a genre so reliant on the temporal concessions of the recording studio). Dubbed Underground Live, the album featured performed extrapolations of many of the tracks from his debut, as well as a few new and improvised tracks. Now nearly impossible to find, those first two albums were reissued in America by Shadow Records, packaged together as the single-CD priced Mad Blunted Jazz (particularly useful since acquiring both on import could run more than 50 dollars!).

Although Cam’s music has found little acceptance in his home country, audiences in the U.K., Japan, and America have begun picking up on his style. In 1996 Cam was featured on, among many others, the sprawling Mo’Wax compilation Headz 2, remixed tracks for such artists as Tek 9 and la Funk Mob, and most recently collaborated on live and in-studio projects with Snooze and DJ Krush (he co-wrote a few tracks on the latter’s 1997 Mo’Wax release, Mi Sound).

DJ Cam - La 4eme Dimension

From myspace:

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2008 !!!!!!!!! DJ CAM IS WORKING ON HIS NEW LP ” SEVEN” .HIS REAL NEW STUDIO ALBUM SINCE ” SOULSHINE ” IN 2002 . “SEVEN” WILL BE THE FOLLOWING OF ” SUBSTANCES ” RELEASED IN 1996 WORLDWIDE BY SONY . DJ CAM IS WORKING ON SOME TRACKS WITH FINK , CHRIS JAMES FROM STATELESS , INLOVE , MC EIHT ……. ************************************************************************

Here’s something to kick off your Saturday night right — it’s Man Like Me — a trio from the UK with a fun electro/house/hip hop track.

Man Like Me - Oh My Gosh

This track has a Saint Germain vibe to it.   Here is a short bio on Parov Stelar from last.fm:

Parov Stelar aka Marcus Füreder lives and works in Linz / Austria. Interesting themes and structures preferably move in the protecting environment of the underground. Right where enough space and stages can be found for growth and development. The freedom of jazz combined with the groove of house and breakbeat describes the character of Parov Stelar. The main theme is clearly defined, high quality music engaged in functionality. Parov’s productions addresses the DJ at the club as well as the listener in his easy chair and - he is spinning his well selected vinyls across the world. Parov Stelar is the head of Etage Noir Recordings.
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 Wolf Myer Orchestra & Parov Stelar - SoulGate (ft. Lillith)

Down tempo hip-hop rhythms with jazzy guitar riffs and the breathy vocals of Regina Janssen lay the foundation for this track.  Think Portishead meets French pop vocals.  Nice mix indeed!

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  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”

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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.

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