Following a banner year for Pete Cunningham — best known as dextrous saxophonist Ishmael and leader of the namesake Ishmael Ensemble - 2019 now brings debut album 'A State of Flow.' This new long player builds on Cunningham's work as proud protector of Bristolian heritage, sketching loving sonic pictures of the South West in his Bristol-inspired 'Severn Songs' series, whilst also incubating local visual and musical talent, within the Ensemble. 'A State Of Flow' touches on various styles of jazz, stirring ambient invocations, club-ready percussive workouts, spiralling grooves & hazy psychedelic electronica. This would be a confusing melange, but for Cunningham's excursions as a genre-agnostic DJ - something evident in the real house shuffle of 'Lapwing' - which evokes walking into a smoky afterhours haunt and finding a session in full, forward motion or the organic garage beats of 'Full Circle' and classic trip hop style 'Waterfall' fuelled by Holysseus Fly's honey toned and evocative vocals.

Valium is the 1996 album by Naked Funk. The nude music was made by Pussyfoot.

Who Can You Trust? is the debut studio album by English electronic music group Morcheeba. It was released in 1996 on China Records in the United Kingdom and Discovery and Sire Records in the United States. Stylistically, the album is by far the band's most trip hop oriented release, consisting of languid, looping grooves, using mostly Rhodes piano, electric guitar and scratching.

Collection includes 5 albums and 7 singles by Recoil. Recoil is a musical project created by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Essentially a solo venture, Recoil began whilst Wilder was still in Depeche Mode as an outlet for his experimental, less pop-oriented compositions. Once he announced his departure from the group in 1995, Recoil was transformed from a small side-project into Wilder's primary musical enterprise.

The Dream is the eighth studio album released by English electronic group The Orb in August 2007. The album features somewhat of a return to the earlier sound of the Orb (notably, "The Truth Is…" features the same vocal sample as the group's early-90s single, "Blue Room"), and shares much more in common with their 2004 album Bicycles and Tricycles than with their minimal 2005 release, Okie Dokie It's the Orb on Kompakt.

Listening to music evolves day by day, and even musical genres change sometimes even only by contaminating one another and creating small variations that become real musical genres over time. The Chillout genre, born from above all acoustic and melodic sounds, over the years has undergone innumerable contaminations, transforming itself with the most diverse technological and genre influences. Right now the most interesting fusion is with electronic music, Hip Hop and the jazz that created the genres ChillHop and JazzHop.
This LO FI JAZZY CHILL is a selection of these new sounds!

A great compilation album from The French Touch Connection featuring 24 beats all from prominent artists such as Frenic, Moderator, Gadget, SmokedBeat and many more.

'The Pale Queen' (out 4th October) marks the return of London-based Canadian producer, singer and songwriter Rhi. "Swagger" the first single from the album follows the phenomenal debut ‘Reverie’ which received support from the likes of Benji B (BBC Radio 1), Toddla T (BBC 1Xtra), Lauren Laverne (BBC 6Music), Tom Ravenscroft (BBC 6Music), Garth Trinidad (KCRW), Nemone (BBC 6Music) The Independent, Clash and Dummy.

As birds start preparing for their long winter flights and hazel leaves scatter the ground, once again we return for another fresh edition of our Essentials series. Looking back over the previous 8 months of releases, this compilation completely sums up the innovative and relaxing vibes Chillhop has strived to provide throughout the year. While some see the Autumn as the season of melancholy, we like to look at it from a different perspective; One of new beginnings and quiet excitement for what is to come.

Thievery Corporation's Eric Hilton and Rob Garza have always treated the line between acoustic and electronic music as a drunken sailor might, unpredictably falling on one side or the other with equal frequency. By this measure, The Richest Man in Babylon is their soberest effort to date, striding confidently into jazz, soul, world beat, and other styles with a direct, reverential approach. The band's last record, Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi, featured a set of classic jazz tunes unadorned with remixes or reinterpretation. But the songs on Babylon are originals, incorporating not just jazz but Afro-beat, Brazilian dance, Persian and Indian music, reggae, and psychedelia, all while making expert use of new and old collaborators like Sleepy Wonder, Lou Lou, and Shinehead. Icelandic singer Emiliana Torrini makes an instant impression on the first track, "Heaven's Gonna Burn Your Eyes," her voice freeing the song's melody and structure with just a few hypnotic bars. It's hard to call this an electronic record at all; even their dub-influenced tracks miss a certain studio sheen, as if Hilton and Garza simply waded into a sweltering Jamaican beach party and hit record. But while it misses the ambient, ethereal edge that made The Mirror Conspiracy a downtempo classic, Babylon satisfies with organic energy and tasteful eclecticism.

Twenty years after their international debut, the French multi-platinum selling band Air, consisting of Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, will release their first anthology on June 10. Available as a 2CD, the first disc contains 17 tracks selected by the band and the second disc gathers 14 rare and unreleased tracks.

Mexico City Blondes is Allie Thompson and Greg Doscher. The two met in Santa Barbara, California and after bonding over mutual influences, decided to collaborate on a record. \n\nAllie was raised on American folk and grew up playing other peoples\' music on her piano. Adulthood brought a desire to learn guitar and also a fascination with synthetic sounds and dreamy, trip-hop vocals that she was eager to incorporate into her own compositions. Learning to play guitar led her to begin writing her own songs.\n\nGreg Doscher was previously a guitarist in Tripdavon with which he recorded and co-produced 3 albums touring in Asia, Europe and North America with their debut album reaching number 12 on the UK charts. On break from this project, he had been eager to work with a broader range of sounds and Allie’s unique voice proved to be an effective counterpoint to the blend of electronic and organic sounds in his productions.\n\nTheir first single, Fade, was released in the summer of 2014. As a totally unknown act with no label and no marketing push it managed through sheer word of mouth to reach number 1 on Hype Machine’s most popular chart twice over the course of the next few months and became one of the biggest indie breakout hits of the year.

To finish the summer with style, Buddha-Bar signs a new compilation with Sahalé. Intense basses, hypnotizing and shamanic beats dotted with traditional Moroccan, Andean or Asian instruments … this spiced deep house seduces the new generations and invades the famous Ibiza.A booming phenomenon, a desire to live free, far from the tumult and stress imposed by the present society… The youth demands his freedom!

Blowback is the 2001 album by British artist Tricky. It is his first released for Hollywood Records and features help from Alanis Morissette, Cyndi Lauper, Anthony Kiedis of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ed Kowalczyk of +Live+, and a few more notable artists.

Nova Tunes est un ensemble de compilations orienté à la fois musique électronique mais aussi trip hop et world music. Nova Tunes fait partie du label indépendant Nova Records et regroupe les titres à l'écoute sur la radio Radio Nova.