Archives for the month of: October, 2011


Alaclair Ensemble
 is a collective of French-Canadian artists mostly from Montreal. The Ensemble includes some of our favorite electronic/hip hop producers including KenLo Craqnuques, Bueller Tout’nou, and Vlooper. This release entitled Un PIOU PIOU parmi tant d’autres is an instrumental album that was released in a series of three projects that came out around the same time from Alaclair. The other two releases sound very different from this one as far as genre. The details of who exactly was involved in each project is unclear due to the fact that mostly everything seen and heard from the crew is in French. Check out their bandcamp page to listen to and download more from Alaclair Ensemble.

The Philadelphia based electronic/hip hop/soul producer Sir Froderick releases a new 16 track album entitled Reconnecting. The album features a large crew of collaborators from Froderick’s inner circle and is released on Record Breakin’ Music. There’s a Limited 7″ Vinyl EP with exclusive tracks to go along with the album release as well.

“This album was made to hopefully reestablish a bond with friends I have made a connection within the music biz. These musicians’ sounds have inspired and shape me into the person I am today and for that I’m grateful. “Reconnecting” is for my friends who shared this time with me.”

– Sir Froderick

Mndsgn an electronic/hip hop producer from New Jersey has been residing in Los Angeles and other west coast locations for the past several months doing live shows and working on new material. Some of that new material being this latest 5 track EP release entitled Daypass. Mndsgn also recently collaborated with several other east coast producers on a project entitled Blasphemous Jazz: The Bitches Brew Sessions.

 

New video for “L♡ve Song” by Infinite Potentials

 

An audiophile, from Latin audio “I hear” and Greek philos “loving,” is a hobbyist who seeks high-quality audio reproduction via the use of specialized high-end audio electronics.Audiophiles prefer to listen to music at a quality level that is as close to the original performance as possible using high fidelity components. These specialized components include turntables, digital-to-analog converters, equalization devices, preamplifiers and amplifiers. Both high quality solid-state and vacuum tube amplifiers are used. The quest for audio perfection can also include horn loudspeakers or electrostatic speakers, power conditioners, subwoofers and acoustic room treatment.

 

 

Ben Gray aka Garfunkle a Pennsylvania native now residing in Boston is a scientist. Whether it be music, photography or bio-engineering Garfunkle disects his subject in order to understand fully the origin of its function. Once he’s gained that understanding he can rebuild that subject by his own hand. Garfunkle began as an MC and producer in high school then started working more with playing keys, programming drums and looping samples while attending college at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He produced a number of works while in Baltimore and developed a sound of his own. Tinkering being one of them is available for free download via bandcamp. Garfunkle’s music is rooted in jazz and hip hop. Using vintage keys synths, chopped up drum breaks, mathematic chord progressions and disection of samples; the science is in the sound. Garfunkle recently earned a PhD in Bio-engineering from Cornell University in Ithica, New York and is working on renewable fuels in Boston. Look for more releases from Garfunkle in the near future at Extra Lovely.