Friday, August 13, 2010

Godskitchen - Ibiza Trance Chillout: incl. my new music w/ Blank & Jones + music by Armin van Buuren, Tiesto vs Cary Brothers, The Grid



Godskitchen: Ibiza Trance Chillout

TRACKLISTING

01. Ferry Corsten – Visions of Blue
02. Jes - Ghost (Lime Chill Remix)
03. Guru Josh Project – Infinity 2008 (Steen Thottrup Remix)
04. Blank & Jones - Heart Of Wax (with Vanessa Daou) (Original Mix)
05. Bobina feat. R Kenga – That’s What I Did For You (Sensorica Remix)
06. The Grid – Flotation
07. Lange – Home
08. Cosmic Gate feat. Aruna – Under Your Spell (Original Mix)
09. 4 Strings - Catch A Fall (Breakbeat Mix)
10. Marco V – Coming Back (Nic Chagall Remix)
11. Parker & Hanson – Aim High, Shoot Low (Instrumental)
12. Armin van Buuren - Sound Of Goodbye (EDX's Indian Summer Remix)
13. Alan Connor - Sun Went Down (Simon Sinfield Remix)
14. Tiesto vs Cary Brothers – Ride (Tiesto Remix)
15. BT – Rose of Jericho (BT’s Deus Ex Machina Mix)


Monday, August 02, 2010

Vanessa Daou: Joe Sent Me - Review by Author Graham Reid

"My dad always used the phrase "Joe sent me", it was the old password to get into illegal bars and speakeasies and the implication was that you were gaining access to the illicit, and therefore rather seductive, world on the other side of the door.

Vanessa Daou's breathy, sexually-fueled electronica offers an entry to that kind of world. Her music oozes sensuality, suggests forbidden pleasures, and promises a very enjoyable, safely hedonistic time indeed where the lights are dim and the outline of entwined bodies writhe in slo-mo.

Yep, Daou delivers a wonderfully seductive line in electro-sexual-noir and her '94 Zipless is an Essential Elsewhere album.

But there has always been more to New Yorker Daou than just purple sexuality: she has a poetic sensibility and her albums often include spoken word (whispered word) pieces over a soundbed of soft electronica. Here on Hurricanes she weaves a fragmented narrative of uncertainty and confidence, masculine and feminine, and of the power of giving oneself to love over a bed of distorted keyboards and ticking percussion.

But mostly here are aural signifiers of sex and sensuality with images of beds, "all the pleasures of the tongue", love among the litter, hot skin, and a speakeasy where the password is "sin".

These images, imagistic songs and narratives taken together address existential issues, the nature and dangers of the emotional life, all wrapped in warm, hazy, jazz-influenced grooves and tone poems where a soft saxophone weaves a melodic line line (Love Lives in the Dark), angular drums keep you on edge and electronic keyboards lull you gently.

Daou's music is hypnotic, European in consciousness with a steamy Latin quality. It's quite something."


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