The Bloody Beetroots - I Love the Bloody Beetroots (2006)

The Bloody Beetroots is a solo project of the Italian DJ Cornelius Rifo and Tommy Tea. Their first EP "I Love the Bloody Beetroots" sounds like a ton of TNT being dropped on a razorblade factory. Merciless killer synthies and kick-ass beats in the style of Justice and late Daft Punk make this record an electronic inferno.

1.) Mac Mac

2.) Pour un rasage de très près et un confort absolu!!

3.) Harvest Time

4.) Ezekiel Eats Red Hoodie

5.) Public Enemy

6.) Rotten Pick 2007

7.) Bluto Fucks Popeye

8.) I Love the Bloody Beetroots

Strong Arm Steady - In Search of Stoney Jackson (2010)

Strong Arm Steady is a Los Angeles-based rap trio founded in the mid 90's. They initially gained fame by circulating mixtapes all over the L.A. area and didn't release their first album 'til 2005. Stoney Jackson is their second album and the first to feature a wide range of guest stars, from underground rappers to Blacksmith label boss Talib Kweli. The most notable aspect of the record is the incredible beats. SAS got the legend that is Madlib to produce the entire record, and he delivered 18 instrumentals full of magic and old soul samples.

1.) Best of Times

2.) Cheeba Cheeba

3.) Chittlins & pepsi

4.)  Telegram

5.) Questions

6.) Smile

7.) New Love

8.) Get Started

9.) Interlude One

10.) Pressure

11.) True Champs

12.) Needles in the Haystack

13.) Interlude Two

14.) Ambassadors

15.) Chants

16.) Bark Like a Dog

17.) Two Pistols

18.) Outro

Reverend Deadeye - The Trials and Tribulations of Reverend Deadeye (2010)

Not much is known about Reverend Deadeye except for the fact that he is an actual preacher working in a Navajo reservation somewhere in Arizona, and that he got his name because of an accident in which a snake bit him in his left eye, leaving it blind. 

His music sounds like a bastard son of Tom Waits and the White Stripes; voice and riffs as muddy as the bottom of the Mississippi Delta. Never in my life have I heard anything as dirty and fucked as this whiskey-soaked excorcism of a blues record. 2 Thumbs up!

1.) Can't Take it With You

2.) Backstabbin' Savior

3.) Chased ol' Satan

4.) Drunk on Jesus

5.) Coldest Heart

6.) Led His Children out of Bondage

7.) Jesus on the Mainline

8.) Her Heart Belongs to the Wind

9.) Drinkin' on the Buildin'

10.) Train Medley

The Apples - Buzzin' About (2008)

Oh my god it's the funky shit! Tel Aviv based nine-piece ensemble The Apples fuses funk with turntablism in a quite danceable fashion. Buzzin' About - their second  record - is a 52 minute booty shakin' tour de force that culminates in a batshit insane cover of Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name of".

1.) Stack it up!

2.) Run This Town

3.) Debil's Dream

4.) The Bell Step

5.) Run Shai Ran

6.) Lou-E-Zee-Yanaa

7.) Kol Ha Yom Ba Halal

8.) Nuber Two

9.) Upskirt

10.) Yablaki

11.) Buzzin' About

12.) Killing in the Name of

Boards of Canada - Music has the Right to Children (1998)

Listening to this record will instantly make you feel like an explorer, as BoC take you on a voyage through dreamy ambient soundscapes and hypnotizing rhythms.The Scottish electro duo's debut album is arguably their best record to date and one of Warp Records' all time classics. 

1.) Wildlife Analysis

2.) An Eagle in Your Mind

3.) The Color of the Fire

4.) Telephasic Workshop

5.) Triangles and Rhombuses

6.) Sixtyten

7.) Turquoise Hexagon Sun

8.) Kaini Industries

9.) Bocuma

10.) Roygbiv

11.) Rue the Whirl

12.) Aquarius

13.) Olson

14.) Pete Standing Alone

15.) Smokes Quantity

16.) Open the Light

17.) One Very Important Thought

Soul Coughing - Ruby Vroom (1994)

In 1994 New York born poet Mike Doughty released his debut Ruby Vroom; at a time when grunge drew its last breath and the gangsta rap hype had just ignited he recorded an experimental spoken word album that would become one of the most influential records of the 1990's. On Ruby Vroom Doughty spits his laconic poetry over odd jazz samples and pulsating drumbeats and deliveres a record that - even by todays' standards -  is way ahead of its time. 

1.) Is Chicago, is not Chicago

2.) Sugar Free Jazz

3.) Casiotone Nation

4.) Blueeyed Devil

5.) Bus to Beelzebub

6.) True Dreams of Witchita

7.) Screenwriters Blues

8.) Moonsammy

9.) Supra Genius

10.) City of Motors

11.) Uh, Zoom Zip

12.) Down to This

13.) Mr. Bitterness

14.) Janine

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars - Living Like A Refugee (2006)

Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars is a band formed by musicians who were displaced during the Sierra Leone Civil War. After having found exile in Guinea they started writing songs in order to cope with their experiences and  rise awareness for the miseries of war. Their debut album features 17 beautifully crafted reggae-jams,  heavily influenced by traditional West-African Music.

1.) Living Like A Refugee

2.) Soda Soap

3.) Weapon Conflict

4.) Bull to the Weak

5.) Big Lesson

6.) Let We Do We Own

7.) Smile

8.) Compliments for the Peace

9.) Pat Malonthone

10.) Garbage to the Showglass

11.) Akera Ka Abonshor

12.) Kele Mani

13.) I'm Not A Fool

14.) Ya N'Digba

15.) Refugee Rolling

16.) Monkey Work

17.) Ma Fo Ya

Pizzicato Five - Happy End of the World (1997)

Formed in Tokyo in 1984, Pizzicato Five combine J-pop with 60's chanson, lounge and disco music to sometimes bizarre collages. Happy End of the World is their most diverse record, with the repertoire ranging from laid-back loungy grooves to the psychedelic kitsch-dance inferno that is Mon Amour Tokyo. 

1.) World is Spinning at 45 Rpm

2.) The Earth Goes Round

3.) Trailer Music

4.) It's a Beautiful Day

5.) Love's Prelude

6.) Love's Theme

7.) My Baby Portable Player Sound

8.) Mon Amour Tokyo

9.) Collision and Improvisation

10.) Porno 3003

11.) Arigato, We Love You

12.) Ma Vie, l'Ete de Vie

13.) Happy Ending

Hymie's Basement - Hymie's Basement (2003)

There is only one word to describe this record. "Weird". What the Minnesota based duo does on this indie jewel could at best be labeled post songwriting. Minimalist odes to the little oddities of life accompanied by guitar, organ and turntables.


 1.) 21st Century Pop Song

 2.) All Them Boys

 3.) Suite of the Fearless Tale Dude Killer

 4.) Ghost Dream

 5.) The Act

 6.) Moonhead

 7.) The Pump

 8.) Parrots

 9.) Pretty Colors (Smile Your Brains Out)

10.) Ben and Joey

11.) America Won

12.) America Too

13.) I am a Sewer at Heart

14.) Lightning Bolts and Man Hands

15.) You Die

Kruder & Dorfmeister - Trans Fatty Acid Remix

The best track on the K&D Sessions and probably the best remix I've ever heard. Louise Rhodes' voice is pure sex, even more so than on the original track by Lamb. Incredible, how the groove floats through 8 and a half weightless minutes just to leave you hungry for more in the end...

Mo' Horizons - Remember Tomorrow (2001)

Remember Tomorrow, the German Nu-Jazz Duo's second record fuses jazzy samples with funky beats and bossa rhythms. The result is a perfect summer album which is best enjoyed smoking a huge blunt.

1.) Cha Cha Cha

2.) Bosshannover

3.) Superworld (Children's WorldReplay)

4.) Dance Naked Under Palmtrees

5.) Salto Angel

6.) Hit the Road Jack (Pena Estrada)

7.) Nuday

8.) Remember Tomorrow

9.) Quase Nada

10.) Do the Boogaloo

11.) Soho Vibes

12.) Alive Tonight