Washed Out

Perry, Georgia, USA (2009 – present)

Washed Out is Ernest Greene, a young guy from Perry, Georgia, USA who makes bedroom synthpop that sounds blurred and woozily evocative.

There’s a sense of longing and distance in Greene’s somber, filtered vocals, but it’s what he does compositionally that makes Washed Out stand out. Backed by gently pulsing, Balearic-tinged disco, Greene’s voice takes on a new dimension. Reminiscent of groups like The Glass and Chromatics, Washed Out is the music to end your night with, when the city is quiet and you’ve got a long walk home ahead of you.

Source: lastfm

Song: New Theory
Album: Life Of Leisure

Lêndi Vexer

This is a duo from Buenos Aires. Formed by a great singer and a talented musician, the band has been gigging at the most important clubs in Buenos Aires.
Always based on the reflexive aspect of the Down tempo and Trip Hop with a hypnotic and orchestral tint, minimal and rough at moments, clearly distanced by the soft skin of the chill-out.
The dirt and natural roughness of their sound is invoked with their old school equipment of triphop that they have gone on harvesting minutely from their beginnings.

This environment acoustic-vintage is seconded by the electronics and reinforced with the different abilities in both components, as the orchestrations and programmings of DG and the singular voice of Natalie Naveira. and their ability with the mystic Theremin.

Since the year 1995 both components of Lêndi Vexer, have navigate solitary in the cold waters of Trip hop trying to make the tide marry them so that they become one chemically compatible person.
That first work together was in the year 2000.

In that 5 year-old prologue, both were developing for different roads and ways their own vision of the trip hop that soon would compose together.

In those times end of century, DG was working on a project (Abduction Kirlian (r) with a musician friend who was the initial bond by means of a DJ friend between this last one and Natalie.

The first test with the recommended singer was surprising, she had a potential that supplemented exactly the project, a project that was then small when discovering its other gifts as multi-instrumentalist, since she arrived in a very humble way it has become a habit.

Source: lastfm

Song:The Process of Disillusion

Album: The Process of Disillusion

Federico Aubele

Argentina

Federico Aubele is an Argentine singer and composer whose music blends Jamaican dub and reggae, American ambient and hip-hop, Mexican bolero, and Argentine tango. He describes his music as a synthesis of styles from throughout the Americas.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, he started playing music at 12, with his early musical influences coming from his mother, an amateur guitarist and a notary by profession. He moved to Berlin in 2001 during the Argentine economic crisis, where he lived for several years. After submitting a demo via email to Thievery Corporation’s Eighteenth Street Lounge Music, he was signed quickly to the label and in 2003 released his debut album Gran Hotel Buenos Aires , produced by Thievery Corporation. In 2006, he played at the Austin City Limits Music Festival. His song “Esta Noche” was featured in the 5th season of the TV series Alias. After Berlin, he moved to Barcelona where he began working on his next album, Panamericana, which was released on September 18, 2007, also produced by Thievery Corporation.

He now lives in Barcelona, Spain and he frequently returns to Buenos Aires.

Source: lastfm

Song: Postales
Album: Gran Hotel Buenos Aires

 

All India Radio

Australian masters of instrumental mood land their spaceship bang in the centre of planet Chillout on their brand new album Red Shadow Landing. The band deliver eleven songs that encompass instrumental post-rock, moody film score on a cosmic journey through hypnotic chilltronica with echoes of Morricone, Brian Eno, Pink Floyd & Mogwai.

WIRED magazine says about All India Radio: “Since the turn of the 21st century, All India Radio has mashed the ambient-hop signatures of DJ Shadow, Tortoise and Thievery Corporation with the instantly recognizable guitar soundtracking of Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti. The resulting narcotic musical textures are capable of floating listeners to galaxies far, far away.”

They were nominated for Australian recording industry award (ARIA) and have collaborated with Steve Kilbey (who wrote the magical US top 20 hit ‘Under The Milky Way’ - rediscovered by the world in the hit movie ‘Donnie Darko’), Graham Lee (The Triffids), Ed Kuepper (The Saints and now Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds guitarist) and David Bridie (Not Drowning Waving) among others.

All India Radio (self titled) One of the most elegant and simple instrumental rock albums I’ve ever heard - a heavenly cloud of radiance that is simply not of the material world. - Brainwashed.com

I cannot recommend this album highly enough. If you want an album that will warm you up during these cold winter nights, then look no further; this will get inside your soul and stay with you for a long time. -http://www.thedwarf.com

Melbourne-based All India Radio’s self-titled third album is a breathtaking triumph; one of the most exquisite, ethereal, instrumental records ever made in Australia. - The Brag Magazine

Source: lastfm


Song: Saucer
Album: The Silent Surf