Short little playlist I put together the other night while I was bored the other night and drinking some wine (as one does). The name is pretty self-explanatory.

Edit: on second thought, it's not completely self-explanatory. I realize there really isn't any hip-hop in this playlist, but I also feel like most of these could be used for some pretty incredible hip-hop songs. They have very distinctive beats and incredible flow. 

Jazz, Wine, & Hip-Hop

I've made about 250 numbers, plus collaborations this last year, so it's impossible to go through them to find what you might like, so I'm doing the searching for you.

I'm making some short sets up in various styles, with music I think you might like. This is a desert set. Hope you like:)

Desert Music

Top 4

Late Nights

dark music

Smoothie for yo moodie

Jazz

Here's another number from my new album with Wayne Morley. It's out on iTunes if you are interested:)

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=674759844

Desert Guide - from 'City Lights - Time Out Of Mind' (album) feat. Wayne Morley (trumpet)

Herbst9 Etemenanki, Foundation Of Heaven And Earth

Latin Groove - from 'City Lights - Time Out Of Mind' feat. Wayne Morley (trumpet)

Fiddling around with a groove. Started with a Hip Hop drum loop, added a bass line, some fender rhodes keys, then piano, then various ambient sounds and finally bodged / mixed  it all together, so apologies if it's a little rough around the edges. I guess sometimes that can give it a better feel or not lol :) Don't really know what style / genre you'd call this I kinda guessed at chill or hiphop, so chill hop is what i came up with. Hope you like :) 

454 - Desert  Dreaming

This one is available on Bandcamp if you feel the love :)   https://markyd1.bandcamp.com/track/dreamtime

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456 - Dreamtime

Trying to get that Modern Jazz Quartet sound.

Hope you like the groove:)

110 - Jazz Toccata - 320kbps

From an album that I am still making. It's been a long time since 2011 - and a lot has happened.

Mortician's Wife

Here's my groove to a great late night jazz number.

Hope you like:)

198 - Blue In Green - Miles Davis - 320kbps

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STILLMUZIK

Grey Poupon (ft. Octavio Santos)

Francisco has done a fantastic remix on this number, added a real tribal feel. Thanks very much Frank. Check out Frank's cloud -- http://soundcloud.com/ttaattoo

223 - Deep Desert (Shaman Remix) Collaboration with TTAATTOO

227 - Desert Guide - 320kbps

Bara Boo Dad 

"The hiding ancestral s speaking Dark can be very warm translucent Ambient shadows .. pulse inventing perfumed-blood new mod-mood-quantum string musical debonair looking glass mirrors .. Drone floating Prose trumpets atmospheric shining black Ravens fluting flirting this universe's effervescent seeing gush hush at ever-casting horizon's sinking flesh hips .. your name flame rising mystic-pleasures releasing lips-tincture set-yet breathing vibrant low grey whispering a faithful-elegant-grace-filled-glowing glow .. a "Dave Brubeck" man-nova-light may be eyeing an "Duke Ellington" LeFemme angle to a "markd54321" Angelou beat romantic-mercurial time space unstopped embracing soul-closure and lover's emblazonment an ember communed blue to golden yellow an inventive sonnet-song-sensual-cosmic-prism for maestro's "prophet" jazz-hip-smart-caring-"Dark Ambient" rainbow-carving succulent new living perspiring inspiring hues .. Listen .. this generous "231 End Of Time" ethereal clue is following imaginaire's star-sun .. have fun feeling Lover's Loving Love fountain of youth beyond any "Mayan's unloved , "End Of Time" cold veteran extraterrestrial dead planet bed .. superb production quality, wonderful neo-classical modern accenting craftsmanship, intelligent interest appealing concept, smart generous ethereal creativity, beautiful body-mind-spirit potion-ed romantics, love the underlining resonate vibrato-tensile percussive synth-sculptures, love the brow bending popular high lights fantasy flights, love the calming certainty of uncertainty, love the clever fee-simple ergonomic-free send out to a yet beating jazz-heart-creaming-heavenly peace .. masterful divinite .. BooDad

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231 - End Of Time - 320kbps

The Unfinished Swan

Ambient piece from The Unfinished Swan Sountrack

Empty City

Electric Harpsichord piece from The Unfinished Swan soundtrack

Statue Garden

Lights Out

Your Assistance Wont Be Needed

Beat for Stones Throw Beat Battle #308

A little over the time limit, but the sample was too good not to explore fully!

Take Time

Monroe's Story

Purchase EP Now - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sunsets-and-clocks-ep/id613789626

Material originally penned for a recent tour of Japan with fellow LA artist Matthewdavid, 'Sunsets and Clocks' is a brand new EP from Anenon.
 
Consider how personal an experience it is to wait. When caught in the space of time before a thing happens, we unconsciously reveal ourselves through our ticks - physical manifestations of where we let our thoughts drift in this non-space. While waiting, each foot tapped, itch scratched and phone checked reflects the places we allow ourselves to explore before we have to jump back into formal time and space to perform.
 
Anenon recorded 'Sunsets and Clocks' in the weeks directly preceding a whirlwind tour of Japan, where expectations and preconceptions (both false and true), collided over and over again in anticipation of the trip to come. In this collection of songs, Brian Allen Simon shares that intimate space, where he was both highly conscious of the relentless march of time and simultaneously removing himself from it, delving into an inner space where the lack of time smeared memories, fantasies, and fears into one another.
 
From the title, we can start to understand his headspace during this period, where the abstract concerns and artistic preparations for an international tour to a new country constantly collided with the pragmatic, binary problems of itineraries, exchange rates, and language barriers. These conflicting drives mirror the sharp contrast of the way the smudged shades of a fading sun mark the end of the day at the same time that the precision crafted gears of a timepiece click into place. 
 
We hear this theme reflected in how these pieces are unified by their maximal approaches to contrasts in the perception of time and meter, voice and tone. Anenon plays with this contrast through the shadowy textures of rhythm in the live improvisation of "We Yearn" and the meticulously interlocking beats driving "Ghost Light" and the title track. Boldly eschewing the use of the Rhodes and piano of his previous releases, these songs instead rely on the tenor sax and synthesizer. This new pairing fully realizes the theme in the marriage of the ethereal vibrations of the lungs and haunting accuracy of the keys.
 
1. We Yearn
2. Ghost Light
3. Dreamer (for Mary Jane)
4. Sunsets and Clocks
 
Music, cover photo and design by Brian Allen Simon.

Anenon - "Dreamer" (for Mary Jane)

Another late night latin number... hope you like :)

FullWerks

374 - Latin Affair - 320kbps

PURCHASE NOW - https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sunsets-and-clocks-ep/id613789626

'Sunsets and Clocks' EP available 4/16 via Non Projects.

Premiere via XLR8R - http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2013/03/sunsets-and-clocks

Material originally penned for a recent tour of Japan with fellow LA artist Matthewdavid, Sunsets and Clocks is a brand new EP from Anenon.

Consider how personal an experience it is to wait. When caught in the space of time before a thing happens, we unconsciously reveal ourselves through our ticks - physical manifestations of where we let our thoughts drift in this non-space. While waiting, each foot tapped, itch scratched and phone checked reflects the places we allow ourselves to explore before we have to jump back into formal time and space to perform.
 
Anenon recorded Sunsets and Clocks in the weeks directly preceding a whirlwind tour of Japan, where expectations and preconceptions (both false and true), collided over and over again in anticipation of the trip to come. In this collection of songs, Brian Allen Simon shares that intimate space, where he was both highly conscious of the relentless march of time and simultaneously removing himself from it, delving into an inner space where the lack of time smeared memories, fantasies, and fears into one another.
 
From the title, we can start to understand his headspace during this period, where the abstract concerns and artistic preparations for an international tour to a new country constantly collided with the pragmatic, binary problems of itineraries, exchange rates, and language barriers. These conflicting drives mirror the sharp contrast of the way the smudged shades of a fading sun mark the end of the day at the same time that the precision crafted gears of a timepiece click into place. 

We hear this theme reflected in how these pieces are unified by their maximal approaches to contrasts in the perception of time and meter, voice and tone. Anenon plays with this contrast through the shadowy textures of rhythm in the live improvisation of "We Yearn" and the meticulously interlocking beats driving "Ghost Light" and the title track. Boldly eschewing the use of the Rhodes and piano of his previous releases, these songs instead rely on the tenor sax and synthesizer. This new pairing fully realizes the theme in the marriage of the ethereal vibrations of the lungs and haunting accuracy of the keys.
 
1. We Yearn
2. Ghost Light
3. Dreamer (for Mary Jane)
4. Sunsets and Clocks

Sunsets and Clocks

In celebration of 2013’s Record Store Day, moby and @MarkLanegan have collaborated on an exclusive track to be released as a limited edition 7” on 20th April. The Lonely Night 7” comes backed with a remix from electronic music legend https://soundcloud.com/photek and is being released on moby’s own label Little Idiot. 

moby on collaborating with Mark Lanegan: 

"i've been a fan of mark's from his early sst records days, and i've always wanted to work with him. he has one of the best and most distinctive voices of the last 25 years. now that we live near each other it ended up being really easy working on a song together."

moby on producing of The Lonely Night: 

“…And in producing the song, spike stent and i incorporated some very unusual production techniques... we ran all of the instruments through a distortion pedal into a guitar amp. so really there are only 3 tracks: left channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, right channel through a distortion pedal and guitar amp, and mark's vocals.  The end result is intentionally very broken and atmospheric."

Colin Rich a LA based director who specializes in time-lapse photography has been commissioned to shoot the video to accompany The Lonely Night.  The video features both moby and Mark Lanegan and flits between the desolate and far removed terrain of the Californian desert and the endless electric city expanse of Los Angeles.  

Moby & Mark Lanegan - The Lonely Night

sometimes i feel this way.
Good Wine.



Good Wine

The new Cosmic Composition compilation vol.2 is out!
There are so much talented artists on it like, Wodoo Wolcan, FloFlilz, Noyce, Ben jamin', IAMNOBODI and much more!

Name your price and the compilation is yours!
Melodiesinfonie - j'aimejazz
http://cosmic-compositions.bandcamp.com/track/jaimejazz

Melodiesifnonie - J'aimejazz

Foals - Late Night (Koreless Remix)

There are no prizes for guessing who i have listened to a lot recently! 

You can download this here: http://breakbeatheartbeat.bandcamp.com/album/delta 

Photo edited from : http://www.flickr.com/photos/markhillary/8652530477/in/photostream

Lights

Deathprod | Dead People's Things

Hi, I'm a keys player and I like making up grooves to existing jazz and latin standards. Over the last few years I've been mainly working on original numbers.

It's just me in the music you hear, I play all the parts off a keyboard recording in midi and layer up into the finished version.

I started playing the piano as a kid , then took up the trombone and played for fun in various local amateur bands and orchestras. Then at 18 went to college and didn't do anything  musically  for many years. Started playing the saxophone and tuba more recently, and in the last four years or so got back into the keyboard which is now my main instrument.

I like making up jazzy  late night music & music you can listen to when travelling. Sounds like a strange thing but I find the most enjoyable part of a holiday is the travelling part, whether that's on a plane , train or even a car on a quiet road with some nice views. Looking through a window with a changing view, in a bubble of suspended time between two worlds, that's what travelling feels like to me, and I like to write music that sounds that way - http://soundcloud.com/markd54321/361-stolen-moments-320kbps . Can't really explain it any better than that for now. Cheers Mark

231 - End Of Time - 320kbps

Mark Dorricott Music