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We Are All Small Pixels – yes, that describes us all in this post-atomic digital age – but some bands pack a big sonic wallop. In the case of Norway’s prodigious indie jazz combo Pixel, the little elements cohere into a singularly arresting sound, combining the improvisational imperative and acoustic instrumentation of a free bop quartet with the impassioned vocals and incisive lyrics of indie rock. 

Following up on its acclaimed 2012 debut Reminder (Cuneiform), which established the quartet as a bold new voice on the international jazz scene, the young Oslo-based band delivers a stellar second album that makes a mighty big musical statement. Led by double bassist, vocalist, and songwriter Ellen Andrea Wang, the combo further refines its fervently creative vision with We Are All Small Pixels, a genre-smashing manifesto that translates ancient spiritual insight into the digital age. 

For Wang, the fundamental building block of billions of photos and graphics that are the communications currency of her insistently connected generation represents “being a small but important part of the big picture. Whether human beings in the universe, or a simple chord in a big symphony, every pixel is unique and important.” In Pixel’s music, every perfectly placed note and wantonly propulsive beat paints a vivid 21st century picture, a seductive sound that embraces jazz’s harmonic sophistication, minimalism’s incantatory power, rock’s primal thrust, and pop’s lyrical concision.  

Featuring Wang on bass and lead vocals, drummer Jon Audun Baar, trumpeter Jonas Kilmork Vemøy and saxophonist Harald Lassen (with everyone contributing backup vocals), Pixels features the instrumentation inextricably linked to Ornette Coleman’s epochal “free jazz” quartet of the late 1950s and early ‘60s. The band takes advantage of the harmonic space created by the absence of a chordal instrument, but Pixel favors tightly orchestrated tunes and intricately constructed arrangements. Which isn’t to say that quartet is in any way predictable. With sudden metrical shifts, starkly contrasting textures and Wang’s vocals delivered in unison with the horns, the resulting sound is transfixing and unlike anything else on the scene. 

The album opens with the inviting, almost calypsonian bounce of “Be Mine,” a surging tune showcasing Wang’s crystalline vocals and a melody so brightly enticing it could easily find a home on an adventurous rock radio station. She follows that forthright lover’s plea with the jagged “Space,” an equally emphatic call for solitude, revealing in song the delicious push-me pull-me tensions, the contrasting and contradictory forces that animate so much of Pixel’s music. 

Part of what makes Pixel’s music so effective is that even when a tune is dissonant or abrasive it never wears out its welcome, with the majority of the album’s 11 tracks clocking in under four minutes. The album’s centerpiece and longest track is the instrumental “Night Dreamer,” an episodic journey that moves from the pummeling opening section to Vemøy’s beatific trumpet to a triumphant closing fanfare powered by more muscular Baar drum work. As if emerging from unquiet slumbers, the following piece “Easter Song” is the album’s shortest track, at barely over a minute, with a luminous wordless vocal that emerges from an undulating tenor sax line generated by Lassen’s circular breathing. 

With an insistently buzzy tenor line setting up Wang’s ethereal vocals, “Dreaming” is a gorgeous song defined by its contrasting textures. Wang turns fierce and feisty on “Daylight,” with the horns emphasizing her need and urgency. The album closes with the mysterious “Time,” a strikingly lovely song with a gently lamenting vocal refrain. Whether she’s wailing, belting or murmuring, Wang is an uncommonly expressive singer who knows how to mix it up with the horns. 

On a scene rife with exceptional young female players, Wang stands out as a particularly accomplished artist. As a composer, player, and perhaps most importantly as a bandleader who has melded like-minded players into a capaciously inventive ensemble, she stands at the forefront of a rising generation that’s remaking jazz in their own image. Her notoriety is quickly spreading via captivating performances and appreciative critics, resulting in a stream of impressive awards in Norway and on the international stage. In October 2012, the magazine Japan Jazz named Wang their “New Star of the Month”.  The 2012 Oslo Jazz Festival presented her with that year’s prestigious and lucrative Statkraft Young Star award, and the next year, she won the 2013 TONO prize, category «Årets Utfordrer» [Innovator], for the song “Call Me” from her Reminder debut album. 

Now 26, Ellen Andrea Wang founded Pixel in early 2010, which proved to be her breakout year. Featured on the album Norwegian Song 3, the project showcased her bass prowess in the company of storied Nordic masters such as Dag Arnesen, Pål Thowsen, and Palle Mikkelborg. Mentored by bassist Bjørn Kjellemyr at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Wang has been in wide demand among her peers, appearing on more than a dozen albums with top-flight artists including Jon Balke, Jan Gunnar Hoff, Jon Eberson Group and Ketil Bjørnstad.

Before he took up the saxophone at 13, Harald Lassen studied the piano and sang gospel in church. A respected bandleader in his own right since 2008, he’s collaborated with American heavyweights like Andrew D’Angelo and Ralph Alessi. But Lassen, 26, has recently cemented his status as an essential new voice through his work with his own band Play Tell, which features internationally renowned bassist Mats Eilertsen and legendary drummer Jon Christensen (who powered Keith Jarrett’s great 1970s European quartet). Last year he received the prestigious JazzIntro Award and was named the Young Jazz Musician of the Year with his quintet Mopti (which recently released a debut album on Jazzland Recordings). Beside Mopti and Pixel, Lassen appears on four other albums released in 2013, including sessions by Duplex, and Dr. Kay And His Inter Steller Tone Scientists.  

Jonas Kilmork Vemøy, 27, graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Music in 2011. One of the most expressive trumpeters on the Scandinavian scene, he’s been sought out by a wide array of acts, including prog rock band Blokk 5, the Balkan brass-inflected The Captain and Me, and the pop/rock band Lama, created by former Jaga Jazzist keyboardist Nils Martin Larsen. In addition to Pixel’s second album, he plays on new albums by pop artist and songwriter Kristin Minde, and jazz pianist Jens Andreas Kleiven. 

Like Vemøy, Jon Audun Baar, 26, is a conservatory-trained musician who studied at the Norwegian Academy of Music with teachers like Jon Christensen and Rune Martinsen. A prolific sideman, he’s performed at major festivals with numerous bands and artists over the past four years. Outside of Pixel, Baar has been most visible in an acclaimed trio with the well-traveled guitar master Jon Eberson, a pillar of the Scandinavian jazz scene since the early 1970s.

Together in Pixel, these 4 talented musicians form one of the fastest rising and most innovative ensembles in Scandinavia’s flourishing jazz scene.  Performing at Scandinavia’s jazz festivals and clubs before ever-increasing numbers of fans, recording albums that garner international critical acclaim, winning numerous awards, the young Pixels are poised to take the international jazz stage by storm.

For more information on Pixel, see:
www.pixelband.no - www.facebook.com/pixelnorway - www.cuneiformrecords.com

Pixel, "Space" from 'We Are All Small Pixels' (Cuneiform Records)

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my first completed mix in ableton live. this is the raw .wav file so the file size is a little large if you download. 

Dave Myers - The Project (2012)

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Kill Frenzy debuted on dirtybird with the label anthem of last year "Make that Booty Clap featuring DJ Funk". To have a track that gets played by everyone all the way from Soul Clap to Skrillex shows Kill Frenzy's ability to bridge the gap between genres, cliques and crews around the world. This new EP pushes even further into that original sound. To be able to combine footwork, breaks, techno &amp; dubstep and make it all playable in house DJ sets is a big achievement and Kill Frenzy seems to have claimed this new genre all for himself. We have to give credit to co-producer of "Go To The Mo" dirtybird's long time friend Sacha Robotti working with KF on the A side, but there is no denying this new talent from Belgium and we are really excited to have Kill Frenzy be a part of dirtybird. It also makes me happy that after 8 years some of that San Francisco dirt is breaking through to places like Belgium other countries in Europe outside of the UK.

Released by: dirtybird 
Release/catalogue number: DB078 
Release date: Sep 25, 2012

Kill Frenzy - Push Up [Dirtybird Records]

Nicky Valentine and Tommy Love first released a new remix for the hit Confusion in 2011. Now the talented vocalist and song writer Nicky Valentine met DJ Tommy Love once again, to release this new summer anthem. "Kiss Kiss Goodbye" debuts with two versions produced by Tommy himself: the original version, super pop, with catchy lyrics and melody, and the "Big Room Remix", for straight hit on the dancefloor. The "Big Room Remix" contains a sample of Tommy's biggest hit, "Libra", which is also Nicky's favourite song. Upcoming remixes soon, by world famous international DJs.

Nicky Valentine & Tommy Love - Kiss Kiss Goodbye (Tommy's Big Room Mix)

Song nr 3 from "Zombi EP". Available now on Beatport through Adapted Records.

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Vudvuzela - Bob Your Head (Original Mix)

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Sean etienneBio:
Stephan dreht Vinyls schon seit 1995. Im September 2009 begann er sich fürs Produzieren zu interessieren.
Nach 2 Jahren war es endlich soweit.
Er gründete Anfang 2011 das Projekt "Sean Etienne", welches sich hauptsächlich mit allen Styles von House und Techno beschäftigt.
Nur wenige Wochen danach wurde seine erste E.P. auf Beatwave Records / UK veröffentlicht und danach ging es schnell.
Nach einigen Remixen und Radio Broadcast auf der ganzen Welt begann er zusätzlich auch Tracks für "More than Musiker" zu produzieren.

Im November 2011 wagte Stephan einen kompletten Neuanfang und übersiedelte von Österreich nach Deutschland.
"Sean Etienne" hat mittlerweile einen gewissen Status erlangt, vorallem wenn es um die Deep House / Deep Tech House Szene geht.

Als DJ braucht uns Stephan nicht mehr beweisen. Er ein Vollblut-Oldshool DJ, der den Geruch von Vinyls liebt.
Seine Skills und sein Gespühr für die Musik macht ihn einfach unvergleichbar. Seine Sets entwickeln sich zu einem Gesamtkunstwerk und er versteht es auch verschiedenste Styles einer Session unterzubringen, ohne das es jemand merkt :D

Zur Zeit laufen mehrere Produktionen von "Sean Etienne" und zudem auch einige Remixes die in nächster Zeit nach und nach abgeschlossen und vielleicht auch veröffentlicht werden.

Labels:

BRM Electro / UK
Beatwave Records / UK
LAD Recordings & Publishing / Portugal
Butterbleep Records / DE
CFTU Records / UK

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http://www.mixcloud.com/sean_etienne
http://www.seanetienne.official.fm

Sean Etienne - Blickwinkel (SpecDub Remix)-Out now on Beatport www.elektrikdreamsmusic.com

delPurr &amp; Eraser - Imagine
Release date: 11th March 2013
Format: Vinyl &amp; digital
Label: http://soundcloud.com/blumartenmusic

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delPurr & Eraser - Imagine (Out now)

"I always thought of the acoustic bass as the quintessential jazz instrument... I knew that jazz meant cool, and hip, and on the cutting edge, and to me that was my great uncle, and he played bass. Most of people I saw that playing upright bass were really cool jazz musicians."

With a style steeped in jazz, classical, funk and hip hop -- Christiane McBride has played on more than three hundred recordings. The Philadelphia born bassist is one of the most sought after players in jazz. Our producer David Goren talked with McBride about the Philly tradition, his own work in jazz and the shrinking distances in the world of music.

delPurr & Eraser - Imagine (Out now)

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