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Trip Hop / Dub inspired track from Crustation.

Last.fm Bio

The trio of producers known as Crustation formed by Ian Dark, Stig Manley and Mark Taylerthe are quite connected in the fertile Bristol trip-hop community — they played in bands with Portishead’s Adrian Utley during the 1980s, and regularly hung out with Massive Attack and Smith & Mighty. They debuted in 1994 with two EPs for Cup of Tea Records (also the home of Monk & Canatella, Statik Sound System and Purple Penguin), and released their debut album Bloom in 1998.

Crustation - Purple

Doesn’t this track just throw you back to the days of 90’s Trip Hop. Digging this track with the dissonant piano chords over some rough electronics beats and distortion.

Trip Hop group Milique are from Melbourne, Australia and are made up of James Murfet & Roni Shewan.

Bio from myspace:

milique is james murfet & roni shewan. it’s trip hop, it’s simple; and maybe you can dance to it. expect soothing minimal lows, happy grooves, bass heavy angst and a bit of fun.

james has been hacking around with music and computers since the 90’s. one-time industrial act, james has chilled over the years and now enjoys making downbeat, trip-hop and a bit of minimal/techy stuff. in milique he plays keys and clicks a mouse occasionally. check out his website

roni’s sweet but powerful voice has unpretentiously been rockin’ the melbourne scene in a variety of genres for a number of years. her sincere songwriting and jazz-inclined vocal style soars full flight in milique. check out her myspace.

Milique - Blame it on me

Alluring, beautiful, and all the while psychedelic is the best way to describe this track from Blank Blue.  Love the edits and effects used on it.

Bio From artist page:

lvin Estela, aka Nobody, met Niki Randa at Fingerprints, an indie record store in Long Beach, California, where they have worked together since 2001. Estela was mulling over ideas for a sequel to Pacific Drift, his 2003 release on Ubiquity, and realized that the album he wanted to make needed only one vocalist. He had often heard that “Niki can sing!” and eventually would give Randa a CD-R of beats and tracks that he was considering for his new album to see if she was interested in being the one. In December 2006 the first of their collaborations was finished and given the working title “Sonic What?!” Excited with the results, Estela immediately told Randa about the concept for an album which had come to him in a series of nightmares. Shortly after the two ventured to a book store during their lunch break, grabbed a book blindly, opened randomly, and put Randa’s finger to a page which read “Blank Blue.” The god’s had christened their project (it’s both the album’s namesake and the name given to the collaboration between Estela and Randa) and for the next twelve months, Estela and Randa would eat, sleep, drink and smoke Blank Blue.

Blank Blue - In The Swim

Loving this new release from Bitter:Sweet and looking forward to their sophomore effort called, “Drama”. It’s easy to hear why so many music supervisors place Bitter:Sweet music in to TV show’s such as Grey’s Anatomy, Moonlight, and Lipstick Jungle to name a few.

Bio from last.fm:

Bitter:Sweet is an electronic/trip-hop duo with jazz-like qualities from Los Angeles. The band is comprised of Shana Halligan, who provides vocals and lyrics and composes the songs, and Kiran Shahani, who produces and composes the songs. They are often compared to, or appeal to, fans of Zero 7, Morcheeba, Björk, Portishead, Everything But the Girl, and Serge Gainsbourg. Recently, they have been listed on the Top 10 on the iTunes Store electronic chart and have been placed on radio station KCRW’s Top 5 Most Requested CD for the week of March 20, 2006 [1]. Additionally, they have been featured on the soundtrack of The Devil Wears Prada, in Episode 2 (“I Am a Tree”) of Season 3 of Grey’s Anatomy, in the movies Because I Said So and Shoot ‘Em Up, in a Zune advertisement, and also placed on MSN’s list for “Ones to Watch” [2].

The duo was formed when Halligan answered an ad listed on Craig’s List for a singer posted by Shahani, who had previously founded the Supreme Beings of Leisure. Their 11-track debut album, The Mating Game, was released April 4, 2006 under Quango Music Group and has been reviewed and recognized by several magazine publications, such as Urb and People [3] [4] The song was featured on a commercial for the winery, Korbel.

In summer of 2007, Bitter:Sweet released The Remix Game, featuring reworked versions of tracks from The Mating Game by reknown producers such as Thievery Corporation, Fort Knox Five, and Skeewiff. These tracks were previously available only on vinyl, or unreleased.

Bitter:Sweet - Trouble

Mamanet hailing from the Ukrainian is doing some very interesting live instrumentation of Trip Hop.  Love the pizzicato plucking in the start of this track that then leads to full on atmosphere of the Trip Hop underground.

Bio from Last.fm :

A famous Ukrainian live electronics band, formed in Kramatorsk, UA in 2003. It’s a unique and new sound all played live.
There are four guys, four different personalities. When they are together, they become one solid unit.
They find it pretty boring to hold on to one single genre, so no wonder theirs music can go from trip-hop into disco and from drum’n’bass to lounge. Some guys call it live electronics.
“It’s a Ukrainian Red Snapper” - the magazine “SHO” says.
They believe in music and tend to see mystery in casual things, we deal with, everyday.

KI-MONO a new album by Mamanet was recorded and produced at Neo Generation Music by Dmitriy Pereskokov aka Sher, who became famous working with such Ukrainian artists as Oleg Skrypka, Green Grey etc. Sher was also a sound producer on a KI-MONO record.

Mamanet musical project is:
Jaroslav Tsygani,
Michael Lantuh,
Yuri Rozenko,
Eugen Mihailov.

Record label NGMusic.ru

www.mamanet.com.ua
www.myspace.com/mamanetband

Mamanet - Coma

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.
myspace.com/stelar1

 Wolf Myer Orchestra & Parov Stelar - SoulGate (ft. Lillith)

This track can be found on Emancipator’s, “Soon It Will Be Cold Enough” album, which was released in 2006.  Love the violins on this track and the beautiful arrangement of beats.  Emancipator was 19 years old when he released this album from college.  For me, this is what Delerium should sound like but doesn’t.

You can read the ongoing of Emancipator on his blog and even get a glimpse of his Music Studio from his Studio Apartment.

Emancipator - Anthem