Catablog of Music .V1.
Six months ago this was the first volume of the Conducted and Composed Catablog of music. Originally conceived as a facebook note, The catablog of music has decided to set itself free and take a naked run down weblane.
This an opportunity to share, recommend and find music that may not necessarily find the light of day or just may be of interest to other people. The aim is to have a directory of great music or what I have coined a catablog of music.
Please add your three (max) picks to this week’s catablog. Format is as follows;
Genre
Artist
Song
youtube link
myspace link (if you can be bothered)
abit of blurb, two sentences max (if you’re keen)
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Indie
Feist
My moon my man
Feist youtube
feist myspace
A great find, great voice, Feist is a Canadian singer songwriter. Although her music has been out there for a while, i felt like sharing it with those of us who haven’t come across her before.
Hip Hop
The cool kids
Black mags
Black mags youtube
Cool Kids Myspace
These kids from chicago are about to blow! Injecting some fun and bringing the 80’s vibe back to hip hop, the cool kids have recycled the aura of EPMD, RAKIM & Big Daddy Kane with devastating effect.
Jazz
Robert Glasper
Maiden voyage
Maiden Voyage Youtube
Robert Glasper Myspace
Dropping his own dose of Jazz, Robert Glasper is our generations Herbie Hancock, reminiscent of Theolonius Monk and Maede lux lewis please check this guy out!
DSOIT – a dont sleep on it creation.
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Here are the recommendations from V1
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Folk/Pop/Acoustic
Yael Naim
New Soul
http://youtube.com/results?search_query=yael+naim&search_type=
http://www.myspace.com/yaelnaim
Yael Naim is a French/Israeli singer/songwriter from Paris. She sings in English and has a really pretty, light voice, a little bit Feist-like I think.
Alternative/Indie/Pop
The Hair
Ghosts
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MiSsbQXrJ_o
myspace.com/thehair
I have liked this band for aaaaages. Loads of their songs are good and definately check the youtube link because that video is pretty cool. They are Leeds/York based and regularly gig so try and see them because they a really fun, high energy live act.
Hip Hop
M.I.A
Bird Flu (Diplo Remix)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=fbGP0uTJDdw
M.I.A is a little controversial and I can’t say I am that keen on her first album but this one is ace. Have to move to Boyz and Paper Planes is sick so hope you like this one too!
Over & Out
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Real Hip Hop
The Foreign Exchange
Happiness
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rJrw5NyoCOI
Producer + MC never met before the album was done
Real Hip Hop
Souls of Mischief
‘93 till infinity
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hrNPcaIXhK4
Hip Hop is not what it is today
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Frank Mccomb!! wow!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Vn2aFayXY
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Rnb
Brian Mcknight
http://www.brian-mcknight.com
Not shit rnb in the charts but the proper stuff. His last album “Ten” was awesome.
Soul
Natalie willams
http://www.myspace.com/natwilliams
Not only is she fit, but her music is amazing.
Jackin House
Digital Villans
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=123441011
Check “im down” on his myspace player, its samples james brown and has the coolest piano melody ever
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Folk/Indie
Beirut
Elephant Gun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjeh6P4sRfw&feature=related
http://www.myspace.com/beruit
Lovely real music created from everything from accordions to rubbish bins.
Hip-Hop/Electro
DJ MEHDI
Lucky Boy Outlines
(no youtube but please do listen to the Lucky Boy Outlines song on his myspace)
http://www.myspace.com/djmehdi
The French have been kickin some ass with their electo-hiphop fusion over the last few years. This mainly due to the edbangers label and collaberations with artists such as DJ Mehdi’s wife (singing on this track) who happens to be a fantastic French graffiti artist.
Indie/Rock
Metric
Poster of a Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRxAv3xNdbo&feature=related
http://www.myspace.com/metricband
Guitars, energy, and lyrics full of humour and dispair. Fronted by Emily Haines who did a great solo album too.
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Grown-up MOR Indie
Emma Pollock
Paper and Glue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAvSoAiO-ug
Ex-Delgados Front Woman makes solo album that might actually be better than former band.
Indie
Vampire Weekend
Oxford Comma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKHN5LxwJxA
Hype-tasticly good, New Yorkers who mix leftfield lo-fi indie with Paul Simon-esque world music. Nowhere near as bad as that sounds.
Electropop
Nut Bros
That Synching Feeling
http://www.myspace.com/nutbros
Unsigned Glasgow synth popsters. Actually heard this two years ago now but its taken them that long to get their act together and finish their album.
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what a good idea,
nu soul or something like it,a bit of afro-beat:
Ayo
‘Life is Real’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYzrYXRGWkU
beautiful & talented: ‘i live my life the way i want, i got nothing to hide’
Hiphop
Cunninlynguists
‘Mic Like a Memory’, but i could go on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_jxyJfFKY
QN5 crew, southernunderground but not crunk in any way, even my dad enjoys this sound of hiphop..
Reggae
Matisyahu
‘Time of Your Song’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJu_nCaNAw
jewish rastafari from hawaii, pretty much a rare background
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Dubstep / Leftfield
Burial
Archangel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hI4bSCy9iE
http://www.myspace.com/burialuk
Quite simply the best thing to have evolved from UKG / dubstep / . If you’ve grown up with urban music (garage / breaks in particular), you’ll feel an odd sense of being and a strange engagement, you’ll understand what it’s all about without being able to put it into words.
Neo-soul / Jazz
Natalie Williams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSgAGVO7cdo
More talent than Lilly Allen / Kate Gash / Adele have in their mockney tonsils. Been around for a while but keeps to London Jazz clubs rather than being ‘the next big thing’
Jazztronik
Samurai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3saQuQxG_M
Not new – but it has a habit of growing slowly and turning into some kind of piano driven epic journey. Very large.
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INDIE
Black Kids
I’m not gonna teach your boyfriend how to dance with you
http://www.myspace.com/blackkid
Buzzy new band, i think this track is the best of the free ep you can get from their webpage (think its blackkidsmusic.com), one for 2008
INDIE
Tinseltown
I’m a Dog/Skeletons
http://www.myspace.com/ilovetinseltown
Slightly biased as it’s my sister’s band, but they’ve just signed to Fiction Records and are destined for big things- you heard it here first!
ELECTRONICA
Plej
Electronic Music from the Swedish Leftcoast
http://www.myspace.com/weareplej
This whole album is genius, one of my all time favourites. One of those albums you can put on anywhere anytime and it will fit perfectly. Especially tracks “Lay of the Land” and “You”. They’ve had a new album due for release for about 3 years, seems to be on the verge of release.
Loads more but i’ll stop!
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D, great idea. Enjoying some Feist as I type!
HIP-HOP
Artist: Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
Track: Beat that my heart skipped
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESvYRR1Fyug
http://www.myspace.com/lesacvspip
You’ll have heard their tune ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ over the summer, but you might not know they’ve been producing quality tunes ever since. Each track on their myspace page has unusual & infectious beats combined with funny & thought-provoking lyrics, both tickling your grey matter and making you want to dance.
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I got one for you D:
INDIE
LYKKE LI
Little Bit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUC0ezAlHwE
http://www.myspace.com/lykkeli
She’s Swedish, and looks a bit mental, but great tune.