KVR: Seven Phases releases Spectrum Analyzer
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Seven Phases
Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something
Dec 22,09 | 05:38 PM on last.fm by 
kuppa
Nikka Costa (born Domenica Costa, June 4, 1972), is an American singer whose music combines elements of funk, soul, and blues, among other genres. Though she is relatively unknown in the United States, she has achieved impressive commercial success overseas, most notably in Australia and Germany. She is the daughter of Don Costa, a legendary arranger and producer of pop music, with whom she recorded several albums as a child, many of which have gone platinum.
Nikka Costa - Fooled Ya Baby
Dec 22,09 | 05:36 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Nikka Costa (born Domenica Costa, June 4, 1972), is an American singer whose music combines elements of funk, soul, and blues, among other genres. Though she is relatively unknown in the United States, she has achieved impressive commercial success overseas, most notably in Australia and Germany. She is the daughter of Don Costa, a legendary arranger and producer of pop music, with whom she recorded several albums as a child, many of which have gone platinum.
Trentemøller - Miss You
Dec 10,09 | 05:01 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Anders Trentemøller is a Danish electronic musician from Copenhagen. Trentemøller made his debut in 1997 together with DJ T.O.M. when they formed the first live-house act in Denmark, Trigbag, and started playing concerts all over the globe. Trigbag's single “Showtime” was played by international DJs such as Alex Gopher, Laurent Garnier and Etienne de Crécy. Trigbag dissolved in 2000. Trentemøller returned on Naked Music in 2003 with his The Trentemøller EP including the tracks “Le Champagne” and “Work in Progress”.
Luciana Souza - Here It Is
Dec 03,09 | 05:14 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Luciana Souza is a Brazilian jazz singer and composer. Daughter of poet Tereza Souza and singer-composer-guitarist Walter Santos, she grew up in São Paulo. She began her career by recording jingles for commercials. She has also worked in the field of European classical music, working with the Bach Akademie in Stuttgart, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, composer Osvaldo Golijov, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the New York Philharmonic and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
Goldfrapp - Pilots
Nov 27,09 | 03:59 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
This English electronic duo, formed in 1999 in London, consists of singer-songwriter and musician Alison Goldfrapp and musician/producer Will Gregory. Prior to the band, Alison guested as a vocalist and songwriter with Tricky, "Orbital" and Peter Gabriel, among others. Goldfrapp's 2000 debut album "Felt Mountain" featured minimalist electronic compositions that consisted of downtempo structures, classical sounding arrangements of strings and light, airy synths alongside Alison's sleek, soft vocals.
New Sector Movements - Anthem
Nov 10,09 | 04:07 PM on last.fm by kuppa
IG Culture is a London musician and performer best known as a pioneer of the broken beat movement. He first became known as a member of the hip-hop duo Dodge City Productions in 1990. After the demise of that outfit, he founded an independent record label One Drop Interouter which released four albums. Later, he worked with the People and founded the Main Squeeze labels. Culture founded the New Sector Movements featuring a number of broken beat artists. His production features rhythms and hybrids of several musical styles such as jazz-fusion, funk and soul.
Art Tatum - Sweet Lorraine
Nov 10,09 | 04:07 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Arthur Tatum, Jr. (1909-10-13 – 1956-11-05) was a famous American jazz pianist known for his virtuosic playing and creative improvisation. Tatum drew inspiration from his contemporaries James P. Johnson and Fats Waller, and had a great influence on other famous jazz pianists, such as Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Chick Corea, and Oscar Peterson. Saxophonist Charlie Parker took his first job in New York as a dishwasher where Tatum played, just for the experience of hearing Tatum's harmonic inventions.
Ramona Borthwick - A New Leaf
Nov 08,09 | 12:18 AM on last.fm by kuppa
Growing up in Bombay, a bustling port city on the west coast of India, pianist-composer Ramona Borthwick was exposed to music at an early age through her father, a professional musician and composer. She began piano lessons at age six, and pursued private studies in classical music, earning performance degrees through the Trinity College and Royals Schools of Music, London, UK. During this time she also taught music in schools, led choral ensembles and did studio sessions.
Egberto Gismonti - Bodas de Prata
Nov 08,09 | 12:01 AM on last.fm by kuppa
Egberto Gismonti (born 1947 in Carmo, RJ, Brazil) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. He began his formal music studies at the age of six on piano. After studying classical music for 15 years, he went to Paris to study with Nadia Boulanger (orchestration and analysis), and composer Jean Barraqué, a disciple of Schoenberg and Webern. After his return to Brazil, Gismonti began to glimpse a reality broader than the classical world of music.
Dino Saluzzi - Cuchara
Nov 07,09 | 12:02 AM on last.fm by kuppa
Timoteo "Dino" Saluzzi (born on May 20, 1935 in Campo Santo (Ingenio San Isidro), Salta Province) is an Argentine musician. The son of popular carpero composer and instrumentalist Cayetano Saluzzi, Dino played the bandoneón since his childhood. Other than his father, he was influenced by Salta musicians such as Cuchi Leguizamón, and by the lyrical strain of the tango of Francisco de Caro and Agustin Bardi.
Miles Davis - Two Faced
Nov 06,09 | 03:00 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Miles Davis (Miles Dewey Davis III, Alton, Illinois, May 25, 1926 – Santa Monica, California, September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter , flugelhorn player, bandleader and composer, Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz after World War II. He was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the 20th century. Along with Charlie Parker & Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis was one of the most important individuals in jazz.
Tomasz Stańko Quartet - Suspended Variation VI
Nov 06,09 | 02:58 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Tomasz Stańko (b. 1942) is a polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Stańko was born in Rzeszów, Poland, on 11th July 1942. He formed the quartet Jazz Darings in 1962 with Adam Makowicz (later replaced by Janusz Muniak); this was one of the first European groups to be influenced by Ornette Coleman. He played with Krzysztof Komeda (1963-1967) and Andrzej Trzaskowski (mid-1960s), then led the Tomasz Stanko Quintet (1968-1973), which included Muniak and Zbigniew Seifert, and received considerable critical acclaim.
Jan Garbarek, Anouar Brahem, Shaukat Hussain - Epilogue
Nov 06,09 | 02:55 PM on last.fm by kuppa
This is a trio to be noticed, Tunesian ud virtuoso Anouar Brahem, Indian tabla master Shaukat Hussain and on saxophone Norwegian Jan Garbarek. On various occasions they prove to be worldmusicians, working with long melodylines, using their skills to let their instruments do what ever enjoyable can be, by telling intelligent stories about building bridges, creating new cultures by using the best of their (old) cultures.
Tomasz Stańko Quartet - Suspended Variation II
Nov 06,09 | 02:44 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Tomasz Stańko (b. 1942) is a polish jazz trumpeter and composer. Stańko was born in Rzeszów, Poland, on 11th July 1942. He formed the quartet Jazz Darings in 1962 with Adam Makowicz (later replaced by Janusz Muniak); this was one of the first European groups to be influenced by Ornette Coleman. He played with Krzysztof Komeda (1963-1967) and Andrzej Trzaskowski (mid-1960s), then led the Tomasz Stanko Quintet (1968-1973), which included Muniak and Zbigniew Seifert, and received considerable critical acclaim.
Anat Fort - Lullaby
Nov 06,09 | 02:42 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Pianist Anat Fort was born in Israel and began her classical music education there at the age of five. Her early attraction to improvisation and interest in jazz ultimately led to a summer session at the Eastman School of Music and enrollment in the jazz program at William Paterson University. While there, she started composing and continued to perform different styles under the guidance of jazz notables Rufus Reid, Norman Simmons, Harold Mabern and Vic Juris.
Boris Brejcha - Die Maschinen Kontrollieren Uns
Oct 27,09 | 01:25 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Boris Brejcha, born on 26.11.1981, became interested in music at an early age. Already at the age of six he learned to play the drums and keyboard, which has given him a good musical basis. His preference in electronic music was influenced by his surroundings and his Avoidence of conventional sounds, such as guitar music, etc. . At this time, the radio show RPR Maximal on RPR1 supported and influenced Boris Brejcha's first electronic music creations on the pc. Even today he still regularly dives into the world of electronic music to produce preferably minimal and experimental grooves.
Paco de Lucía - Patio Custodio (Bulería)
Oct 25,09 | 06:09 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Paco de Lucía is considered a master of rasgueados and picados and is capable of playing with blinding speed on the classical guitar. Born Francisco Sánchez Gómez in Algeciras, Cádiz, Spain on December 21, 1947, he is the youngest of five children. The son of flamenco guitarist Antonio Sánchez, and brother of flamenco singer Pepe de Lucía and flamenco guitarist Ramón de Algeciras, he adopted the stage name Paco de Lucía in honor of his Portuguese mother, Lucía Gomes.
Aaron Parks - Travelers
Oct 19,09 | 01:22 AM on last.fm by kuppa
Pianist/composer Aaron Parks was raised in Seattle, WA. He began playing piano at age 10, learning mostly by ear, and was immediately attracted to improvised music. He first came on the radar screen when at 14 years old, he skipped high school and started the University of Washington as part of the Early Entrance Program. At first, he intended to triple-major in math, computer science, and music, but soon realized that he wanted to follow his passion for music fully.
Bent - I Love My Man
Oct 18,09 | 08:33 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Bent is a two-piece downtempo act from Nottingham, England consisting of Neil "Nail" Tolliday and Simon Mills. They gained critical acclaim from their debut album, Programmed to Love, in 2000. The song "Invisible Pedestrian" of the album "Programmed to Love" was featured in an Absolut Vodka commercial that aired in 2003, and more famously, a U.S. Volkswagen bus commercial in the late 90's. Also aired on TV advertisement was "Private Road" also from "Programmed to Love" in the "Bank of Carlsberg" clip in December 2001.
Brad Mehldau - Blame It on My Youth
Oct 15,09 | 12:45 PM on last.fm by kuppa
Brad Mehldau is an American jazz pianist born on August 23, 1970 in Jacksonville, Florida. He plays original compositions and jazz standards, as well as interpretations of non-jazz songs by The Beatles, Nick Drake, Radiohead and Soundgarden, for example. He has also contributed to movie soundtracks, including Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Eyes Wide Shut (1999), Space Cowboys (2000), Million Dollar Hotel (2000).
Richie Hawtin - Weiter Noch
Oct 13,09 | 04:23 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Richard (Richie) Hawtin (born June 4, 1970, Banbury, Oxfordshire, England) is a English-Canadian electronic musician and internationally-touring DJ who was an influential part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 1990s. Hawtin is best known for his haunting, minimal works under the alias Plastikman, a moniker he continued to use into the mid 2000s. Hawtin is also known for DJing intelligent, minimal techno sets making use of high-tech electronics such as drum machines and digital mixing equipment.
Monolake - Arte
Oct 08,09 | 01:43 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Monolake was formed in 1995 as the duo of Gerhard Behles and Robert Henke, although on later albums the group consisted of Henke alone, with Behles focusing his time on running the Ableton software company. Their sound can generally be described as minimal techno filled with nice touch of fine tech dub, although the 1999 Gobi. The Desert EP, which contains a single 37-minute atmospheric piece, is a notable exception. Monolake first released an album and several 12"s on Berlin's Chain Reaction label, then on Monolake/Imbalance Computer Music, which is operated by Robert Henke.
Everything but the Girl - Rollercoaster
Oct 06,09 | 01:56 AM on last.fm by Astroboy
The duo of Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn successfully pulled off one of the greatest stylistic changes in modern music; originally a folk-pop group with jazz influences, their fortunes changed when Todd Terry successfully remixed 'Missing' (from Amplified Heart). Since then, EBTG have become more widely known as an electronic act, with Walking Wounded being a well-received example of their latter-day sound.
Hard Creation - I Will Have That Power
Oct 05,09 | 12:20 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Hard Creation is the collaboration between DJ Neophyte and DJ Panic, which has been active since 1996.
Nouvelle Vague - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Sep 30,09 | 12:15 AM on last.fm by Astroboy
Cover of Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart
Paul Kalkbrenner - Kranich
Sep 23,09 | 05:24 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
city: berlin friedrichshain style: electronic music 1985-90: learns to play trumpet and theory of music. 1992/93: first gigs at some east-berlin youth clubs. 1994/95: dj at walfisch, exit/kitchen, vereinsheim, praxis dr. mc coy, halle weissensee 1996: buys first production equipment. 1997/98: editor, operator and producer at ard, zdf, rtl, premiere 1999: first releases 2000: release of the 1st album „superimpose“ (BPC016). first tour around germany together with bpitch artists. 2001: release of the 2nd album „zeit“ (BPC032).
Nightmares on Wax - Me!
Sep 17,09 | 07:59 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Nightmares on Wax is DJ and musician George Evelyn, also known as dj ease (Experimental Sample Expert), from Leeds, United Kingdom. The musical style is a combination of electronic sounds and hip hop beats, often regarded as "chillout". Nightmares On Wax's music is released on Warp Records.
dZihan & Kamien - Dundadeova
Sep 17,09 | 07:24 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
The sound of Vienna-based duo dZihan & Kamien (pronounced Jee-hahn and Kammy-en) can easily be compared with downtempo, soulful house sounds of Jazzanova, P'taah, or the Naked Music compilations. The duo hit popularity in 1996 with the single Der Bauch, which went big in european clubs and made appearances on several compilations. Their full-length album Freaks and Icons was released in late 2000.
Hooverphonic - No More Sweet Music
Sep 17,09 | 07:04 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Hooverphonic is a Belgian rock/pop group formed in 1995. Though initially placed in the trip-hop genre, they quickly expanded their sound to the point where they could no longer be classified so easily. The band originally called themselves Hoover but later changed their name to Hooverphonic due to other groups using the Hoover name. The band achieved international recognition through the inclusion of the track 2Wicky (from A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular) on the soundtrack to Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1996 film Stealing Beauty (Io Ballo da Sola).
Bonobo - Recurring
Sep 17,09 | 06:56 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
There is more than one artist with this name: a British producer/musician/DJ and a Dutch electronic project. 1) Bonobo is Simon Green, British producer, composer, musician and DJ. With the experimental warmth of '60s french films and the pizzicato flavor of breakbeats, Bonobo established a niche of post-party chill-out. Green debuted in 1999 from Brighton at 18 years old with a track on Tru Thoughts Recordings' When Shapes Join Together compilation.
Âme - Rej
Sep 11,09 | 12:41 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
According to the Académie française, this is the way Ame should be spelled. Âme is a German deephouse duo consisting of Kristian Beyer and Frank Wiedemann.
Lawrence - Gilbert
Sep 09,09 | 09:44 AM on last.fm by Astroboy
Peter Kersten (AKA Lawrence, AKA Sten) used to be a gardener. His love of nature imbues a wistful spirit into his minimal techno structures, and a sense of organic progression is evident in all of his music. Having started the Dial label in Hamburg with his friends Carsten Jost and Turner, he became a producer of minimal club music that is equally apt for the dancefloor and the armchair. Some of Kersten’s favorite artists include Theo Parrish, Gas, and Isolée, a fact that tells of the many shades to be found in his work as Lawrence.
Ricardo Villalobos - Hireklon
Sep 09,09 | 02:23 AM on last.fm by Astroboy
Ricardo Villalobos is a Chilean-German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well-known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene. Villalobos was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. In 1973 he moved to Germany with his family to escape the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, who had seized power that year. When Ricardo was around 10 or 11 he started to play conga and bongos.
Boris Brejcha - Das Model
Sep 09,09 | 01:48 AM on last.fm by Astroboy
Boris Brejcha, born on 26.11.1981, became interested in music at an early age. Already at the age of six he learned to play the drums and keyboard, which has given him a good musical basis. His preference in electronic music was influenced by his surroundings and his Avoidence of conventional sounds, such as guitar music, etc. . At this time, the radio show RPR Maximal on RPR1 supported and influenced Boris Brejcha's first electronic music creations on the pc. Even today he still regularly dives into the world of electronic music to produce preferably minimal and experimental grooves.
Para One - Liege
Sep 02,09 | 02:06 PM on last.fm by Astroboy
Para One is most known for a string of hard-hitting vinyl only tracks, but the "Beat Down" EP (2003) wasn't his first music venture. From an earlier digital hip hop/reggae era stem some vinyl, cassettes and cd releases on smaller labels such as Co2 Activity, Quality Streetz and N Records. Moving on to colder and more electronic pastures, while seeking to infuse his music with more emotion, he started working with Paris's crunkest rap crew : TTC, joining them on their 2 lp's "Ceci n'est pas un disque" and the hit "Batards Sensibles" (Big Dada).