aurgasm
aurgasm brings to you an eclectic menagerie of aural pleasures. I scout out music you've never heard and deliver only the finest. Expect music curiously different, yet simply enjoyable.
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The Menahan Street Band
soul // funk Lead by multi-talended producer Thomas Brenneck, The Menahan Street Band offers a solid blend of instrumental funk, late sixties sounding soul, latin grooves and afrobeat. Back in 2007, long before the groups debut album, the Brooklyn based ensemble drew attention for their outstanding ...
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Coeur de Pirate
french acoustic // indie pop The debut album of an 18 years old Quebec-based musician Béatrice Martin delivers a collection of colourful and charming piano-driven pop songs. As the album ranges from melancholic notes to playful tones, the standout track Comme Des Enfants carries sincere joyfulness, ...
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Obi Best
electropop // indie pop Obi Bests debut album, Capades, is a startling and addicting collection of refined pop songs. Whether it is the more orchestral ballads or synth-driven electropop that make up Capades; the record is equally dreamy, witty and infectious. Alex Lillys capricious lyrics are temp ...
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Sophie Hunger
singer-songwriter // folk Sophie Hungers debut album Mondays Ghost (2008) delivers well crafted, haunting and atmospheric folk. As the album captures the ear for its melancholy sensibility and Sophies beautifully fragile voice, the peculiar arrangements and sound effects recall the ethereal style of ...
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Special: Aurgasms Fukstronaut Mix
My good man Tom Korkidis (of Eksi Ekso) asked last week me to join him playing some music at a local pub, River Gods, in Cambridge. The night had a great vibe, a full house and plenty of worldly tunes. I wanted to offer my sets to you guys as well. Aurgasm - Fukstronaut Mix (part 1) (47min): Marle ...
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Madita
electro-jazz // electronica Viennese chanteuse and songwriter Madita musical debut came as she lent her soulful vocals to dZihan and Kamiens critically acclaimed album Gran Riserva back in 2002. Produced and co-written by Vlado dZihan, Maditas second album Too (2008) offers richly textured electro-j ...
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RF & Lili De La Mora
acoustic // dreamtempo Ethereal beauty preciously tuned; sewn from misty morning drops of dew, each wee sound held secret inside. New life, new day - warm with glow under spell of flowers bloom; so hush their reverent chanting. Familiar Trees begin to rustle with serene approach of Suns affection. ...
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Sylvie Lewis
folk // jazz // singer-songwriter Exposed to music at an early age, a graduate of prestigious Berklee School of Music, London-born and Rome-based Sylvie Lewis displays a sweet, clear voice and remarkably literate songwriting skills. Musically, Sylvies charming style varies from simple folk melodies ...
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Princeton
indie pop // aural academia It should be noted that the indie pop trio did not name themselves after the Ivy League university, but after a street in their hometown of Santa Monica. Their E.P. however, did not escape academic citation. Named after Londons Bloomsbury Group; each song was inspired and ...
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Track N Field
lounge // exotic // downtempo // trip-hop Some downtempo elicits a strong atmosphere: youre with friends around a beachfire at 5am, youre on a roofdeck swaying with the sunset, youre lips-distance intimate. The stellar downtempo from the Finnish duo of Roberto Rodriguez and Jukka Kaartinen feels app ...
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Lily Frost
swing jazz // retro vocal jazz Canadian songstress Lily Frost pays earnest homage to the heyday of the swing era. Recorded live in mono and accompanied by the Swinging Dukes, an upbeat swing band, Lily Frosts album Lily Swings (2008) brings new interpretations of lesser-known Billy Holiday songs. L ...
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Hauschka
classical // electronic Let me go where you take me - childhoods hour of bewildering delight. A pause only for concerns lasting moments already forgotten; where radiant lights and sounds shimmer all haphazard perfections into play. Harmonious adventures in remarkable surroundings, subsisted by sligh ...
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Robert Francis
singer-songwriter // folk // americana One By One, the debut album from L.A. native Robert Francis is deceptively simple and sparse unexpected considering his contributions to the record were not limited to guitar and vocals, but also included percussion, piano, banjo, glockenspiel and bass. Despit ...
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Lenka
electroacoustic // pop Each summer brings a variety of bright, sunny and catchy songs. The sweet vocals, gentle humour and the sing-along lines of Lenkas debut single The Show (2008) caress the ear and perfectly define those warm, flirtatious and easy-breezy summer days. With her solo debut the Aust ...
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J.Viewz
freestyle chill // downtempo // breakbeat The alternative scene of groovy, funky and stylish music in Israel is probably more colourful and lively than ever. In his solo project J.Viewz, Tel Aviv-based musician, turntablist and producer Jonathan Dagan seamlessly merges his passion for jazz and elect ...
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DobaCaracol
afro-beat // world // dub Inspired by traditional African music and hypnotic tribal chants, Quebec natives Doriane Fabreg (Doba) and Carole Facal (Caracol) entwine the ethnic rhythms and modern grooves into a moving sound-journey. As the duo blends a variety of styles with a mixture of French, Engl ...
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Klima
vocal electronica // electro-pop Although Klima is the first solo effort of Angèle David-Guillou, the London-based French musician has already gained recognition as a part of Piano Magic. Recorded with Piano Magics Jerome Tcherneyan, Klimas eponymous debut album delivers the sound of sincere spontan ...
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Ben Sollee
cello pop // acoustic folk Ben Sollee, cellist for the band The Sparrow Quartet, recently released his aptly titled debut, Learning to Bend. Whether he is plucking the strings, or playing his cello like a percussive instrument, Bens truly unique playing style belies his classically trained backgroun ...
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Sporto Kantes
funky trip-hop // eclectic retro From immediately catchy numbers to the laid back grooves, the duo of Nicolas Kantorowicz and Benjamin Sportes boasts a unique sonic palette. While packed with energy, colourful rhythms and peculiar sampling Whistle recalls the cheery, jolly retro kitsch pastiche, M ...
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Aline de Lima
brazilian // bossa nova The essence of Brazilian Bossa nova is the subtle mixture of wistful melancholy, joy and yearning, often defined as saudade, a Portuguese word with no English equivalent. Far away from her home country, Brazilian native Aline de Lima redefines the Bossa nova sound by blending ...
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