http://www.groundation.com

https://www.myspace.com/groundation





Origine du Groupe : North america

Style : Reggae

Sortie : 2001



From http://www.amazon.com



11 track album contains all new music from California's premier roots reggae band. Features legendary reggae artist Ras Michael on Nyabinghi drums & the soothing voice of Marcia Higgs,
daughter of the late Joe Higgs, on backing vocals. Mixing was done by world famous engineer Scientist (Culture & Burning Spear) & mastering was by Jim Fox (Ziggy Marley).  





Personnel:



All songs performed and arranged by Groundation :



Harrison Stafford (vocals, guitars, percussion)

"Iron" Ryan Newman (bass)

James Stafford (drums, percussion)

Marcus Urani (hammon b3 organ, rhodes, piano, keyboards, melodica, percussion)

Jason Robinson (saxophone and flute)

Kelsey Howard (trombone)

David Chachere (trumpet)

Joshua Anderson (congas, percussion)

Shawna Anderson (backing vocals)

Alison Harris (backing vocals)

Paul "Papa" Spina (timbales)



With our honored guests:

Marcia Higgs (backing vocals)

Ras Michael (funde and repeater)





Tracklist :

1. Weak Heart

2. We Na Forget (Rome)

3. Wanna Know

4. Throwing Stones

5. One More Day (Live It Up)

6. Head Strong

7. If I

8. Waterfall

9. Nyabinghi Order

10. Jah Spirit

11. Each One Teach One

http://www.noiseshaper.net

https://www.myspace.com/noiseshaper





Origine du Groupe : Germany , U.K

Style : Alternative Fusion

Sortie : 2009





By Dan Johnson from http://www.popmatters.com



To celebrate a decade of producing fine electro-reggae, regatta de blanc duo Noiseshaper offers its new full-length effort Satellite City. The album is a faithful evolution of dub reggae—a genre
built on the strength of production technique and a visionary-like big sound. Within electronically generated beats and nostalgic vocal performances that encapsulate styles ranging from soulful
Jimmy Cliff to rude boy spits, Satellite City paints a warm portrait that blends Kingston and London in one sonic city. Simultaneously classic and yet modernist, the Austrian duo of Florian
Fleischmann and Axel Hirn strives to produce an evolution of rootsy music that plays like the perfect album for an Indian summer in the city. The album seems to lament the loss of personal
connection on the hot streets as an ever-growing plague of concrete and steel forces a city upward and its people apart. This satellite city is an integration of carefully crafted instruments
with beautiful, booming bass levied beneath veiled vocals and distant melodies in a pyramid of sound that captures the balance of a lonely city. Tracks like “Big Shot”, “Ghetto”, and “Satellite
City” resonate as physical, emotional testaments to isolation and as noisy tools to crack the heartless concrete of urban solitude in an album that is impressive overall. For the reggae faithful
and the alike, Satellite City is a pleasing, energetic moment in sound that delights and winds through the future of reggae. 





Tracklist :

01 - Big Shot (feat Sketch Walton)

02 - Satellite City (feat Sherrez)

03 - We Rock It (feat Sammy Dread)

04 - As Long As It Takes (feat Juggla)

05 - Got It Bad (feat Wayne Martin)

06 - Wanna Feel More (feat Sketch Walton)

07 - Ghetto (feat Jackie Deane)

08 - Universal (feat Juggla)

09 - Sod's Law (feat Ayesha)

10 - Some Say (feat Sketch Walton)

https://www.myspace.com/rootszombie

http://soundcloud.com/rootszombie





Origine du Groupe : France

Style : Dub , Ska , Reggae , Instrumental

Sortie : 2010





Pour http://soundcloud.com/rootszombie



Roots Zombie, né entre Paris et Bordeaux en 2009, est un meelting pot de sons fait maison mixé façon dub.





Tracklist :   

01. Dub attack (02:54)

02. High frequency (04:41)

03. Old school vibration (04:25)

04. Frida like the ska (04:17)

05. Road of freedom (03:38)

06. Pusher (04:17)

07. Asian tribe (03:24)

08. Nomade (04:21)

09. Dub come from the roots (04:29)

10. Delirium sound (04:01)

11. Dub System (04:11)

12. Dub experience (new) (05:16)

13. Dub is a mean of expression (new) (07:31)

14. Lost repetion (new) (04:12)

FREE DOWNLOAD

http://www.galacticfunk.com





Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Funk Jazz , Jazz Fusion , Acid Jazz

Sortie : 1996





From Official Site :



It's incredible that GALACTIC has never made a carnival album yet, but now it’s here.



To make CARNIVALE ELECTRICOS, the members of GALACTIC (Ben Ellman, harps and horns; Robert Mercurio, bass; Stanton Moore, drums and percussion; Jeff Raines, guitar; Rich Vogel, keyboards) draw on
the skills, stamina, and funk they deploy in the all-night party of their annual Lundi Gras show that goes till sunrise and leads sleeplessly into Mardi Gras day.



GALACTIC was formed eighteen years ago in New Orleans, and they cut their teeth playing the biggest party in America: Mardi Gras, when the town shuts down entirely to celebrate. CARNIVALE
ELECTRICOS is beyond a party record. It’s a carnival record that evokes the electric atmosphere of a whole city – make that, whole cities – vibrating together all on the same day, from New
Orleans all down the hemisphere to the mighty megacarnivals of Brazil. Armed with a slew of carnival-ready guests from high-school students to 72-year-old AL “CARNIVAL TIME” JOHNSON (who remakes
his all-time hit), GALACTIC whisks the listener around the neighborhoods to feel the Mardi Gras moment in all its variety of flavors.



 



CARNIVALE ELECTRICOS begins on a spiritual note, the way Mardi Gras does in the black community of New Orleans. On that morning, the most exciting experience you can have is to be present when
the small groups of black men called Mardi Gras Indians perform their sacred street theater. Nobody embodies the spiritual side of Mardi Gras better than the Indians, whose tambourines and chants
provide the fundament of New Orleans carnival music. These “gangs,” as they call them, organize around and protect the figure of their chief. The album’s keynote singer, WAR CHIEF JUAN PARDO, is,
says Robert Mercurio, “one of the younger Chiefs out there, and he’s become one of the best voices of the new Chiefs. Pardo grew up listening to the singing of the older generation of Big Chiefs,
points out Ben Ellman, and “he’s got a little Monk [Boudreaux], a little Bo Dollis, he’s neither uptown nor downtown.”



On “Karate,” says Ellman, the band was aiming to “capture the power” of one of the fundamental musical experiences of Mardi Gras: “a marching band passing by you.” The 40-piece KIPP RENAISSANCE
HIGH SCHOOL MARCHING BAND’s director arranged up GALACTIC’s demo, then the band rehearsed it until they had it all memorized. The kids poured their hearts into a solid performance, and, says
Mercurio, “I think they were surprised” to hear how good they sounded on the playback.



Musical energy is everywhere at carnival time. “You hear the marching bands go by,” says Mercurio, moving us through a Mardi Gras day, “and then you hear a lot of hiphop.” There hasn’t been a
Mardi Gras for twenty years that hasn’t had a banging track by beatmaker / rapper MANNIE FRESH sounding wherever you go. “You can’t talk about New Orleans hiphop without talking about MANNIE
FRESH,” says Ellman. His beats have powered literally tens of millions of records, and he and GALACTIC have been talking for years about doing something together. On “Move Fast,” he’s together
with multiplatinum gravel-voiced rapper MYSTIKAL, who is, says Ellman, “somebody we’ve wanted to collaborate with forever. It was a coup for us.”



Out in the streets of New Orleans, you might well hear a funky kind of samba, reaching southward toward the other end of the hemispheric carnival zone. There has for the last twenty-five years
been a smoking Brazilian drum troupe in town: CASA SAMBA, formed at Mardi Gras in 1986. They’re old friends of GALACTIC’s from their early days at Frenchmen Street’s Café Brasil, and the two
groups joined forces for a new version of Carlinhos Brown’s “Magalenha,” previously a hit for Sérgio Mendes.



But the Brazilian influence on CARNIVALE ELECTRICOS goes beyond one song. “When we started this album, we all immersed ourselves in Brazilian music and let it get into our souls,” says Mercurio.
The group contributed three Brazilian-flavored instrumentals, including “JuLou,” which riffs on an old Brazilian tune, though the name refers to the brass-funk Krewe of Julu, the “walking krewe”
that Galactic members participate in on Mardi Gras morning. After creating the hard-driving track that became “O Côco da Galinha,” they decided it would be right for MOYSÉS MÁRQUEZ, from the São
Paulo underground samba scene, who collaborated with them and composed the lyric.



If you were GALACTIC and you were making a carnival album, wouldn’t you want to play “Carnival Time,” the irrepressibly happy 1960 perennial from the legendary Cosimo Matassa studio? Nobody in
New Orleans doesn’t know this song. The remake features a new performance in the unmistakable voice of the original singer, AL “CARNIVAL TIME” JOHNSON, who’s still active around town more than
fifty years after he first gained Mardi Gras immortality.



The closing instrumental, “Ash Wednesday Sunrise,” evokes the edginess of the post-party feeling. The group writes, “There is the tension you feel on that morning -- one of being worn out from
all of the festivities and one of elation that you made it through another year.”



But, as New Orleanians know, there’s always another carnival to look forward to, and GALACTIC will be there, playing till dawn and then going to breakfast before parading.



***

GALACTIC is a collaborative band with a unique format. It’s a stable quintet that plays together with high musicianship. They’ve been together so long they’re telepathic. But though the band
hasn’t had a lead singer for years, neither is it purely an instrumental group. GALACTIC is part of a diverse community of musicians, and in their own studio, with Mercurio and Ellman producing,
they have the luxury of experimenting. So on their albums, they do something that’s unusual in rock but not so controversial an idea in, say, hiphop: they create something that’s a little like a
revue, a virtual show featuring different vocalists (mostly from New Orleans) and instrumental soloists each taking their turn on stage in the GALACTIC sound universe.



Mostly the band creates new material in collaboration with its many guests, though they occasionally rework a classic. Despite the appearance of various platinum names on GALACTIC albums, they
especially like to work with artists who are still underground. If you listen to CARNIVALE ELECTRICOS together with the two previous studio albums (YA-KA-MAY and FROM THE CORNER TO THE BLOCK),
you’ll hear the most complete cross-section of what’s happening in contemporary New Orleans anywhere – all of it tight and radio-ready.



Despite the electronics and studio technology, GALACTIC’s albums are very much band records. Mercurio explained the GALACTIC process, which starts out with the beat: “The way we write music,” he
says, “we come up with a demo, or a basic track, and then we collectively decide how we’re gonna finish it.” The result is a hard-grooving sequence of tight beats across a range of styles that
glides from one surprise to the next.



What pulls all the diverse artists on CARNIVALE ELECTRICOS together into a coherent album is that one way or another, it’s all funk. GALACTIC is, always was, and always will be a funk band.
Whatever genre of music anyone in New Orleans is doing, from Mardi Gras Indians to rock bands to hardcore rappers, it’s all funk at the bottom, because funk is the common musical language, the
lingua franca of New Orleans music. Even zydeco can be funky -- and if you don’t believe it, check out “Voyage Ton Flag,” the album’s evocation of Cajun Mardi Gras, in which Mamou Playboy STEVE
RILEY meets up with a sampled Clifton Chenier inside the GALACTIC funk machine.





    Theryl DeClouet - vocals

    Erik Jekabson - trumpet

    Robert Mercurio - bass, photography

    Stanton Moore - drums

    Mark Mullins - trombone

    Jeff Raines - guitar

    Eric Traub - tenor saxophone

    Dan Prothero - programming, producer, engineer, editing, design, mixing

    Raymond Pumilia - photography





Tracklist :   

1. Go Go

2. Welcome To New Orleans

3. Something's Wrong With This Picture

4. Funky Bird

5. Stax

6. Church

7. On The One

8. Mystery Tube

9. Doo Rag

10. Percussion Interlude

11. Everybody Wants Some (Part 1)

12. Everybody Wants Some (Part 2)

13. Everybody Wants Some (Part 3)

14. Goodnight

http://dynamophone.com

http://www.last.fm/music/geskia





Origine du Groupe : Japan

Style : Abstract Electro , Ambient , Downtempo

Sortie : 2012



From http://dynamophone.com



Geskia is an innovator of Japanese underground hip-hop and breakbeats. He started his journey in sound making in 2001, and became a part of the down-beat unit “coma5”. Although Geskia’s music
style is heavily influenced by industrial music (especially by Industrial icons like Coil and Einstürzende Neubauten), trip-hop and techno, the unique music that he has been creating one can tell
that Geskia has already established his very own distinctive music style and philosophy, and it has begun to mesmerize many people, including his fellow artists.





Tracklist :   

01 - Interim

02 - Abuttal

03 - Melamine

04 - Lampland

05 - Orion

06 - Nerori

07 - Effulgence

08 - Lachrymose

09 - Yours

http://www.reverbnation.com/lailaangell

https://www.myspace.com





Origine du Groupe : Norway

Style : Jazz

Sortie : 2011





From http://www.reverbnation.com



" Now I will taste the fall and owe all my love to him". The nature of melancholy is one of beauty,and so is its language. Thus melancholy is my true artistic source. " You can`t force a rose to
bloom". The way I see it, patience combined with hard work is the only way to go, and we should feel humble towards the changes cast upon us as we trot along.





From http://jazzalley.blogspot.com



Laila Angell has a close relationship with Edvard Grieg's music. Now she has composed 10 songs, inspired by the Norwegian master's piano pieces. Their debut album, Changes- an organic, acoustic
Norwegian jazz albums - represents a new and different elements of Norwegian jazz and popular music.

The lyrics on the CD is the result of a collaboration with author Marit Berger.

Genre-wise are the songs in the landscape melodic jazz / pop with a touch ballad. Artist's distinctive voice enhances the clean melodic lines, the exciting harmonies and lyrical texts. Naked
voice with delicate shades of blue. A remarkable debut.





Laila Angell- vocal & piano

Vegard Schau-piano,

Christopher Carlsen-drums,

Jo Berger Myhre-bass,

Anders Jensen-cello,

MariusKristiansen- guitar





Tracklist :   

01. The Beauty Of Love (4:19)

02. Hold Me (2:09)

03. You Are The Moment (4:05)

04. Honesty (3:14)

05. Seamouth Beach (3:52)

06. Homesickness (3:58)

07. In The Name Of Love (3:42)

08. The Lover Lost (3:31)

09. Come Fall (2:52)

10. We Alter (3:38)

https://www.myspace.com/uhtnofridge





Origine du Groupe : France

Style : Electro Jazz , Downtempo , Nu-Jazz , Drum & Bass , Alternative

Sortie : 2012





Officiel Myspace :



Après 3 albums contre la pollution et la déforestation, Pic de Pollution, Ghost Forest et sa suite remixée, le collectif éco-citoyen UHT° revient dans une titanesque messe pour notre planète
bleue.



Respect des fonds marins, désastre écologique des marées noires, gâchis de l’eau, impureté des océans, autant d’émotions traduites en ode par les chorus sombres des instruments, les envolées free
jazz ou les scratches solistes et les lâchés de thèmes évocateurs. Une flute limpide qui donne des frissons jaillissant sur un rythme en ébullition, un saxo tonifiant rencontrant une clarinette
pétillante, un trombone coulant sur une basse qui brise la glace : entre poésie et furie UHT° repousse les limites de l'acoustique, mélange les sons longue conservation, électro, hip hop,
drum’n’bass, symphonique et jazz pour nous livrer un nouvel album H2O fluide et cristallin.



Réunit autour des piliers Dj ClicK DA producteur et Niño Korta aux platines, se joignent Ludivine Issambourg croisée aux côtés de Wax Tailor aux flûtes, Thomas Julienne le contrebassiste de
United Fools, la folie free du saxophoniste Franck Dadure (The Fakir), Daniel Zimmermann du quintet progressif DPZ au tuba et trombone et pour la touche traditionnelle Émile Calmé au xiao bambou
chinois.



Du souffle pour l’énergie, de la chaleur incendiaire pour les programmations et les bois, un tracklisting tantôt doux et salé, pour un résultat encore plus inspiré et lyrique qui réveillera les
eaux dormantes…



En dix ans, plusieurs albums et remixes, le collectif a su se renouveler, innover tout en restant original ; des nuances improvisées du jazz au charme de la pop. Ces performers hors pair ont
depuis toujours aimé organiser les rencontres et confronter leurs talents aux musiciens tels Akosh S, Gnawa Njoum, Patrick Muller, Julien Loureau et d’autres, jusqu’à la tournée précédente avec
Eric Truffaz au festival Jazz à St Germain, ou encore Nguyen Le aux Ateliers Jazz de Mayenne. En live ils passent maintenant du trio au quintet et nous livre un set organique d’une pureté toute
renouvelée.



" Capable de réunir les habitués sans œillères du Rex et du Sunset" Nouvel Obs



"La formation qui impulsa la fusion drum’n’bass-jazz aux débuts des années 2000" Télérama



"Pour écouter du jazz touche-à-tout aux frontières du genre…" Direct Soir



"U.H.T. comme Usine Hautement Tubesque !" Octopus



"Le trio mélange audacieusement scratches, samples, beats électro, instruments live... et bonnes idées ! Depuis 2001, le trio UHT° pasteurise des sons en tous genres" musiqualite.net



"Ce groupe sème la panique et décolle les étiquettes musicales une à une… Tout simplement magistral." sourdoreille.over-blog.com





Tracklist :   

01. Planete Bleue 6:25

02. Blue City 3:22

03. Le Cycle 4:06

04. Labichette 4:33

05. The Silver Wood 4:04

06. Only 4 U 3:58

07. Snow Walking 3:40

08. Nine Dragon Juniper 2:03

09. LPO 3:41

10. Thank You Very Much BP 5:16

11. Au Fil de l'Eau 3:22

12. Nino's Breaks 3 1:11

13. Xylorizon 4:10

14. Deep Water 2:08

15. Pollution Record 11:17

http://riddlore.blogspot.com

https://www.myspace.com/riddlore

http://soundcloud.com/riddlore





Origine du Groupe : North America

Style : Hip Hop

Sortie : 2011





From http://lessmtvmoretmv.blogspot.com



Riddlore? is an underground producer/MC/DJ active since 1983. I checked him out after some affiliation with Aceyalone, leading me to his latest 2011 output, 'The West Wing'. The album is
Riddlore's? fourth solo full-length, his first release since his self-titled in 2003.



Hoping 'The West Wing' gets some love -- tight production and really unorthodox styles throughout.

Has definitely made me try to track down his previous material.





Tracklist :   

1.Damage Control

2.Sun Rise (feat. JD Curry)

3.Show Ya Light

4.Monkey Barz

5.Thats It

6.The West Wing

7.Locked and Loaded (feat. Burro Magic)

8.I've Gotta Way

9.This World

10.Jawz Of Life (feat. Burro Magic)

11.I Smell Smoke

12.Danger Us (feat. Rifleman (Ellay Khule) / Hines Buchanan /Nuvethad)

13.Livin Proof

14.State of the Union

15.B4 I Go (feat. Lil Rina)

16.Make It Count (feat. Rochelle Terrell)

17.The Whole World's Money (feat. Ira Lee)

http://www.reverbnation.com/mrmoods

https://www.myspace.com/mrmoods2





Origine du Groupe : canada

Style : Abstract Hip Hop

Sortie : 2012





From http://mrmoods.bandcamp.com :



I am a beatmaker exploring lots of territories, always play with good or bad feelings at the same time, the moods are the building material for my songs.You will never know what i have in
mind.

I also make beats for rappers on demand and offer mastering services.





Tracklist :    

1.Mr. Moods and Dj Racy A.J. - Desert 05:56    

2.Mystical power 04:26    

3.Live from... 05:02    

4.Mr. Moods and Radina Dimcheva - What in the world can make me feel this way 02:24    

5.Mr. Moods and Dj Racy A.J. - Stones 05:46

http://www.selahsue.com

https://www.myspace.com/selahsuemusic





Origine du Groupe : Nederlands

Style : Alternative, Soul , Reggae

Sortie : 2011



From Wikipedia :



Selah Sue (born Sanne Putseys,3 May 1989) is a Belgian musician and songwriter.



Her debut album Selah Sue (2011) was a major success, selling over 400.000 copies in Europe , 200.000 in France alone. Today, she has chart success with the hit singles 'Raggamuffin', 'Crazy
Vibes' and 'This World'.



In 2011, Selah Sue won an European Border Breakers Award (EBBA). In January 2012 during the EBBA award ceremony she was presented with the EBBA Public Choice Award.