Archive for Chillout
November 15, 2007 at 9:00 am · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, cold & clean
Carbon Based Lifeforms – Erratic Patterns
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Carbon Based Lifeforms – Gryning
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November 9, 2007 at 3:19 pm · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, minimal, Techno
November 8, 2007 at 6:15 pm · Filed under Beatport.com, Breakbeat, Chillout, cold & clean
This is amazing chillout.
November 7, 2007 at 5:48 pm · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, Electro, Free
Solvent is Toronto, Canada’s blip on the emotive synth-pop-electro radar. Good stuff!
June 28, 2006 at 3:45 am · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, cold & clean, Trance
It’s time to unleash two absolutely stellar trance tracks, as I notice many of my visitors are into the trancier side of things.
I can’t decide which of these is doper; I’ll leave that to you.
Above & Beyond generally do what I call sacharrine-cheese trance, which is a little too over-the-top cheesy for me (think vocal trance, and lots of it!). But Tri-State is freakin’ awesome… Make sure you’re chewing gum when you hear this, we don’t want you to grind your teeth flat… ;)
This next song is aptly named Ambience, by Michael Burns. MB has some other fresh tracks under his belt, but we’ll get to that some other day. For now, feast your ears:
If you’d like to chime in on which track is even doper than the other one, leave a comment below or drop me a line. I’m also always on the look-out for more great material, not that I’m running out of fresh tunes any time soon, so if you have any suggestions, get in touch.
June 19, 2006 at 4:26 pm · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, cold & clean
I stumbled across a track by some artist named The Runner called The Creeps (DJ Pisces remix). This track is gorgeous, deep, and weird, just they way I like my down-tempo chilled beats… deep, thick, dark lumbering bass throbs envelope you like a warm and muggy summer’s night, and wind chimes softly clang in the background, reminding me of the sailing boat storage yard at Jericho Beach. When a breeze blows there, hundreds of sails clang and clung in the shipyard.
Gregorian chant-style vocals drift in and out; a male vocal “Ahhh…” punctuates the black space, a light-hearted female vocal samples asks a bizarre question… This is some seriously great chillout material for warm summer nights with the windows open. I’m very pleased with this mature, unique, unusual gem… 5 stars.
June 18, 2006 at 12:27 am · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, cold & clean, House, progressive
I first heard Walking On Fire (Bedrock remix) on Proton Radio many years ago… I caught the tail end of it, and fortunately had it saved to my hard disk. I had no idea what it was called, who it was by… I just knew it freakin’ ruled. Years later, I managed to track it down, and today it is available through Beatport at 320kb/sec for $1.49 USD. You can’t go wrong.
The music conjures up visions of tearing down a highway at night, with teary, blurred vision and a death wish… cars streaking past, etc.
Both the original mix and this version are well worth buying, but the version below is my favorite so I put it here for all of you who have either never heard it, or didn’t know who it was by. This is top-notch Progressive with emotional female vocals riding the waves of “Digger’s” choice remixing style. Anyway, enjoy!
June 17, 2006 at 3:01 am · Filed under Beatport.com, Chillout, druggy, House, progressive
About once every two years, I discover an artist who rocks me, who renews my faith in the quest for Quality Tunes, who makes me wonder how I ever got this far without knowing about them. Like Monolake a year ago, and Fluxion the year before that. This year it’s Joshua Collins, a name that was vaguely familiar to me but ultimately meaningless.
I should also mention I’m not super-huge into house; most house is a little too “flaming” for me… a little too disco-ish or tacky or whatever. I’m generally not into vocals either.
This guy doesn’t just do house; he does druggy, spatial, liquid, freaky, groovy house that ripples and smears with tracers, that hovers in the air between your speakers and you. This guy does my kind of house. This music reminds me of coming home high as a kite as a teenager and listening to CITR 101.9 FM in Vancouver and listening to the alien sounds of house, drum and bass and techno until the wee hours of the morning, or until the drugs wore off and I could sleep. Music so far out there as to be almost inaccessible, yet strangely seductive. True human creativity in its rawest, purest form. This music actually makes me feel high, the highest honor of any urban art work. It makes me nostalgic. And speaking of drugs, I’m guessing Joshua Collins did his fair share of acid back in the day. Whoa.
Without You is probably my favorite Josh Collins track… druggy and delicious. It’s like a mushroom overdose; twinkling and dripping with tracers and waves of euphoria. This is out there.
Mesmotized?! That’s not even a word!!
Bluehaze throws in a wicked proggy remix of Feel It In The Air… “It” being the music as your drugs kick in and you’re on the dancefloor.
World Keeps Turning is a bittersweet, introspective song… with a hint of sadness.
