Wroooooooooam by Moca

Moca's first full-length album slips excitingly between categories, and by its hard-to-categorize nature is infinitely more interesting and listenable than the sorts of albums. This is the sort of album that even people who don't normally go for this kind of thing can love.

Invention by Daedelus

An utterly innovative electronic construction combining samples drawn from acoustic source recordings from the '30s, '40s, and '70s, Invention is a work of complex genius. The album is impeccably paced and brilliantly conceived, fitting together like a giant puzzle stretching across genres and generations.

Oldies but Goodies

The Classics

Moon Safari by AIR
French duo Air's debut album is a superlatively happy collection of experimental disco-mood sound nestled between ambient soundscape and breathy pop.

Life by The Cardigans
The Cardigans are something special. They approach indie-pop with a bag full of jazz chords at times, and at other times with an electronica groove.

Singles by The Smiths
This is alternative rock at its best, jangly guitar riffs, brooding and very English vocals, breakneck fast and morose in just the right doses.

Best Of by The Housemartins
If you like melodic, guitar-driven rock in a popular presentation (accessible and memorable), this is the ticket. And this CD is a very large collection of songs for one disc.

I Love Serge: Electronicagainsbourg by Serge Gainsbourg
Serge Gainsbourg put his extraordinary talent to merging Euro-Pop music with Latin and African rhythms on this album, and comes up with the most hip & happening lounge music you'll find.

Garden State [SOUNDTRACK] by Various Artists
You will appreciate this soundtrack (and the movie for that matter) to the core of your soul, if you have the humility and self-consciousness to have ever felt lost, alone or that certain inexplicable feeling that "you still haven't found what you're looking for...."

Layourbattleaxedown by The Concretes
It has a crisp, yet dreamy sound that is filled with lovely melodies and lyrics, both of which are powerful in their simplicity.

Quelqu'Un M'a Dit by Carla Bruni
Rarely does an album come along that touches everyone who listens to it, even those that do not speak the language in which it was recorded.

Brazilian Girls by Brazilian Girls
If you ever need a definition of "cool," forget the dictionary and check this out instead.

The Life Aquatic by Seu Jorge
His voice is very hypnotic and mellow. He could be on his way to becoming the new century's Brazilian Bob Marley. And no longer being an Import.

Arular by M.I.A.
If you don't believe in her politics, listen to the music. We can't all be John Lennon. But we could aspire to be Public Enemy - different genre, same ethos.

Remixes from Moffou by Salif Keita
A perfect beginning for those looking to acquaint themselves with popular West African music.

Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
"Illinois" is an album of remarkable breadth, depth and ambition.

The Milk of Human Kindness by Caribou
Full of life and tasteful production/instrumentation, this art record's got antlers, though still progresses like a more delicate animal.

Le Petit Cosmonaute by Jerome Miniere
A nice mix of smooth ambiences, weirds sounds and evolutive music.

Buzzin' Fly Vol. 2 by Various Artists
Second volume in Ben Watt's groundbreaking "Buzzin' Fly" series is a concept DJ mixset, fusing street poetics with forward-thinking electro-infused deep house.

Gran Hotel Buenos Aires by Frederico Aubele
If you're a fan of downbeat/downtempo/lounge/dub music, you honestly won't find a better CD on the market today than Hotel Buenos Aires.

Salle Des Pas Perdue by Coralie Clements
This is a perfect example for modern timeless music the french way.

La Disparition by Karen Ann
Singer/songwriter who follows in the footsteps of Francoise Hardy but with a new trip hop sensibility that makes her sound like Paris in the autumn.

Tropicalia: Essentials by Various Artists
a wonderful anthology of the musical diversity and experimentation that TROPICALIA was about.

Lou Entendue by TOOG
Intimate, Quirky, Charming and Inventive Electronic Pop Music on Theremins. Toog is the Alter Ego of Parisian Giles Weinzaepflen.

Adapt or Die by Everything but the Girl
A favorite both in the clubs and with critics and aficionados, the duo's innovative sound has become iconic to the genre of "pop-tronica".

The Return of the Clerkenwell Kid by The Real Tuesday Weld
Audacious in its potent mixture of ancient and modern sounds and styles embracing breezy bossa nova, classic pop and gentle psychedelica.

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Ongaria by Great Lake Swimmers

There is a hushed grace to each Great Lake Swimmers release, a wonderfully fragile quality. The fragility is palpable, yet the primarily acoustic, bluegrass-affected instrumentation (from guitar to banjo to upright bass) is meaty enough to make every track feel lush and full. Beautifully understated.

Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles

Their music evokes vintage video game soundtracks -- albeit ones that have been folded, spindled, and mutilated almost past recognition. On their self-titled debut, Crystal Castles (aka Ethan Kath and Alice Glass) hurl eight-bit bleep into sometimes chaotic, sometimes moody synth pop with a jagged edge.



Crystal Castles - Crimewave

A Look Back: Seelenluft

MANILA landed in 2003 featuring the super surreal vocal talents of Compton´s very own 12-year-old rapper Michael Smith. The sheer craziness of this kids lyrics is brillant, sitting ever so nicely off key and awkwardly over Seelenluft´s bass heavy tweaks and bleeps. Michael Smith raps like a kid on a flashback with a Saturday night mash up mentality, only the aeroplane is going down.

Another World by Antony and the Johnsons

This teaser EP, which serves as an introduction to his forthcoming The Crying Light. Beginning with that album's first single (and this release's title song), Another World operates against a stark backdrop of glistening piano keys, brushed cymbals and supple strings. This is dark cabaret done in drag.

New Release Recap

Everything is Borrowed by The Streets

Everything is Borrowed emphasizes more intricate arrangements for live instrumentation, and while its expansiveness doesn't always work, Skinner can still grab your attention with well-placed touches. These songs, though, are definitely clear and present. This the thinking mans rap album.

Double Night Time by Mogan Geist

After turning the Dance music world on its head with his Metro Area project (alongside collaborator Darshan Jesrani) and mining rare disco gems with the seminal obscure disco DJ mix Unclassics (2004), Geist decided it was time to turn his attention to a solo album that would indulge his own early influences and guilty pleasures: Techno-Pop, Prog Rock and pure Electronic music.

Nectar by Natalia Clavier

You probably don't know the name, but you may recognize the voice, as she supplies vocals for most of the best tracks on Federico Aubele's "Panamericana," including the haunting "Maria Jose." Her voice is a soothing aural pillow, only it won't put you to sleep. You will want to wrap yourself up in sound of her mellifluous voice time and again.

Rejoin by Brightblack Morning Light

Motion to Rejoin is like the Sunday morning day after, when everything looks a little less sexy as you're veeery slooowly trying to find the coffee while your hook-up insists on reading headlines from the paper out loud. The Rhodes is still there, but it's less obtuse funk than sepia waves of sound.

Magic Monday by Michna

A former Diplo collaborator and one-time Jandek remixer — about as unlikely a resume you will ever find — the young Michna is the newest DJ in the Ghostly International roster, and immediately its least serious and most fun. Across Magic Monday, Michna gets coy and playful, composing pieces that fans of Gotan Project and their ilk would absolutely dig.

One Color by Up, Bustle and Out

Great album from a consistently great band. This is from back when they were a big group. (Now they're just a couple or three guys who work with other musicians an album at a time.) The basic idea is incorporation of music from all over the world with fantastic electronica beats with a bit of Latin American Revolutionary fervor and worldly awareness.

Git by Skeletons and Girl Faced Boys
Git is scrambled-up pop with loads of electronics and blissfully boyish melodies, as if Butterfly Child's Joe Cassidy found lifelong happiness, ditched his string section, and decided to use Todd Rundgren's sprawling '70s albums for some sonic direction. You'll either embrace the album or dismiss it for its many eccentricities.

Escalator Records, Tokyo by Various

Escalator's native lineup captures the clever, light-hearted sounds of Tokyo's Shibuya district. Well worthwhile for anyone interested in global indie pop or curious about Shibuya-kei beyond Pizzicato 5, Cornelius, or the style's other usual suspects.

Présence Humaine by Michel Houellebecq

Successful and controversial french writer Michel Houellebecq here delivers his poetry on the sweet symphonic songs of Bertrand Burgalat, backed by an explosive rock band. Poetry mixed with space-age sonic goodness - we love it.

Dans Mes Reves by Montel

It has been a while since I bought an album and liked all tracks on it. This is one of those rare exceptions. I have been listening to this album for over 12 months and never get tired of its freshness. This is the junction where A Tribe Called Quest, Daft Punk and Serge Gainsbourg meet.

Youth Novels by Lykke Li

Sweden's Lykke Li presents one of the most perfect pop albums you'll hear all year. Just as her music sometimes seems to have arrived from another planet, she's not quite like anyone you've met before.

Spotlight on Music: The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock group active from 1982 to 1987. The group was based on the songwriting partnership of Morrissey and Johnny Marr, and were signed to the independent record label Rough Trade Records. Considered by some critics to be the most important alternative rock band to emerge from the British indie scene of the 1980s. The Smiths have had a major influence on subsequent alternative music, including the Britpop movement and bands such as The Stone Roses, Gene, Radiohead, Blur, Suede, Oasis, The Libertines, and Doves.

At the time, the group was notable in particular for two things: Morrissey's unusual, witty, and controversial lyrics, and Marr's music, which helped return guitar-based music to popularity after it had fallen out of favour in the UK charts. The group released a total of four studio albums and several compilations in fewer than five years, as well as numerous singles.

Cinemix by Various Artists

Long confined to the bins of specialist record-shops, film soundtracks are in the process of becoming a popular genre all of their own. Less well-known than their international colleagues, Michel Magne, Antoine Duhamel, & Francois de Roubaix were geniuses & their discography is a sampling-reservoir to come to slake your thirsts.

Magic Monday by Michna

A former Diplo collaborator and one-time Jandek remixer — about as unlikely a resume you will ever find — the young Michna is the newest DJ in the Ghostly International roster, and immediately its least serious and most fun. Across Magic Monday, Michna gets coy and playful, composing pieces that fans of Gotan Project and their ilk would absolutely dig.

Nectar by Natalia Clavier

You probably don't know the name, but you may recognize the voice, as she supplies vocals for most of the best tracks on Federico Aubele's "Panamericana," including the haunting "Maria Jose." Her voice is a soothing aural pillow, only it won't put you to sleep. You will want to wrap yourself up in sound of her mellifluous voice time and again.

Double Night Time by Morgan Geist

After turning the Dance music world on its head with his Metro Area project (alongside collaborator Darshan Jesrani) and mining rare disco gems with the seminal obscure disco DJ mix Unclassics (2004), Geist decided it was time to turn his attention to a solo album that would indulge his own early influences and guilty pleasures: Techno-Pop, Prog Rock and pure Electronic music.

Everything is Borrowed by The Streets

Everything is Borrowed emphasizes more intricate arrangements for live instrumentation, and while its expansiveness doesn't always work, Skinner can still grab your attention with well-placed touches. These songs, though, are definitely clear and present. This the thinking mans rap album.

Git by Skeletons and Girl Faced Boys

GIT is scrambled-up pop with loads of electronics and blissfully boyish melodies, as if Butterfly Child's Joe Cassidy found lifelong happiness, ditched his string section, and decided to use Todd Rundgren's sprawling '70s albums for some sonic direction. You'll either embrace the album or dismiss it for its many eccentricities.

One Color by Up, Bustle and Out

Great album from a consistently great band. This is from back when they were a big group. (Now they're just a couple or three guys who work with other musicians an album at a time.) The basic idea is incorporation of music from all over the world with fantastic electronica beats with a bit of Latin American Revolutionary fervor and worldly awareness.

Motion to Rejoin by Brightblack Morning Light

Motion to Rejoin is like the Sunday morning day after, when everything looks a little less sexy as you're veeery slooowly trying to find the coffee while your hook-up insists on reading headlines from the paper out loud. The Rhodes is still there, but it's less obtuse funk than sepia waves of sound.