Art Awesomeness #3

Great Danish photography. Dig further work from Kim Holtermand and discover beautiful photographs and amazing Danish architecture.

Objectified trailer

New doc from the guy who brought you HELVITICA. Looking forward to this one. Ready to geek out to the max!

It's a new day

Brownswood mixtape

Over this past X'mas the folks over at the brownswood message board do what is now a yearly mixtape exchange for the holidays. The last two years we've been super on time with our selection but this year we were a little behind but final got our selection together among all the year end wrap up mixes we were doing. Thanks for your patience Gordon! Now that X'mas is over here is it for everyone to enjoy. Listen below or download from here.

1. Ski Oakenfold "New Orleans under attack"
2. Jimi Tenor "Anywhere, anytime"
3. Jumbonics "The world is upside down"
4. Gaggle ft. Skidaround "No more"
5. Paranoml "Take time"
6. Main Source "Looking at the front door"
7. Rae & Christian "Let it go" (Groove Armarda's country house remix)
8. Braintax ft. Taskforce "Godnose"
9. Rodney P "The nice up" (Yam Who? rework)
10. The Bahama Soul Club "But rich rhythms"
11. Ibrahim Ferrer "Prefide Ind"
12. DJ Patife & Max Castro "Carnival"
13. Bassie "Good Bait"
14. Doces Bárbaros "Chuckberry fields forever"

runtime 1:15 mins

Art Awesomeness #2

Not really a fan of photorealistic paintings but these really are quite beautiful. Check out more work from Roberto Bernardi.

Guest Mix #5: Nick Adam's Top 12

A couple months back we dropped a mix with our top twelve tracks that define who we are. Well the originator of that conversation was Nick Adams and here he is dropping his selection of twelve tracks that defines him. Find the original post here. Listen below or download from here. Big thanks to Nick!

1. “Alabama” - John Coltrane
2. ” The Lost Ones” - Ted Hawkins
3. “Your Body Makes Eyes at Me” - Arthur Prysock
4. “Ascension (Don’t Ever Wonder)” - Maxwell
5. “Black Cow” - Steely Dan
6. “Resurrection” - Common
7. “Doomsday” - MF DOOM
8. “Who is It? - Björk
9. “Verb: That’s What’s Happening” - Bob Dorough feat. Zach Sanders
10. “Prophets of Rage” - Public Enemy
11. “Space Cowboy” - Jamiroquai
12. “Chameleon” - Herbie Hancock

runtime just over an hour.

Motion Graphics Awesomeness #4

2008 Rewind Part 3

Here is our third and final installment of 2008's best tunes. There were still many more to fit in and it is always impossible to do justice to all the great music that gets released in any given year. Here's hoping that our three posts have gone to some way document what has been pumping out of the playjazzloud HQ speakers for 2008. Onwards to 2009 and much more amazing music from around the world. As always keep sending us music and we will keep listening. Check out the mix below or download from here.

1. will.i.am "It's a new day"
2. Stephaine McKay "Jackson avenue"
3. Basement Jaxx "My turn"
4. Willie Colon & Ruben Blades "Plastico" (Bugz in the Attic Mix)
5. Fulgeance ft. Buddy Lezzle "Bien rond"
6. Probe DMS "Voodoo magic"
7. Inverse Cinematics "Take it back to 86"
8. Mark E "Sun shadow"
9. J. Rawls and Middle Child "Music over madness"
10. Recloose "Deeer Waters"
11. Jimmy Abney "Then she went away"
12. The Portico Quartet "Zavodovski Island"
13. Soulphiction Chevy ft. Suzana Rozkosny "Estate"
14. Kissey Asplund "Hit me with medication"
15. Paul Weller "Black river"
16. Charlie Dark and Roger Robinson "Prayers for angry young men"
17. Jake One ft. MF Doom "Get er done"
18. Estelle ft. Kanye West "Splice of life" (vocal)

2008 Rewind Part 2

As promised here is part 2 (of 3) to our 2008 rewind selection. In this part we focus on the rediscoveries for 2008. There are all older tracks some we've never heard before and other are happily being recirculated into our iTunes playlist. Listen below or download here.

1. Sixto Rodriguez "Sugar Man"
2. Pete Dunaway "Supermarket"
3. Hugh Masekela "Witch doctor"
4. Fela Kuti "Beautiful Dancer"
5. The Black Santiagos "Ole"
6. Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou "Se we non nan"
7. Henri Mancini "Bagdad on Thames"
7. Clifford Jordan "John Coltrane"
8. Mary Lou Williams "Dat Dere"
9. Gary Bartz "Perihelion and Aphelion"
10. Hastings Street Jazz Experience "A little love for you"
11. Sahib Shihab "Bohemia after dark"
12. Peter King "Freedom Dance 1"
13. The Funkees "Acid Rock"
14. Smokey Robinson "Baby that's backatcha"
15. Everyday People "Mama Said Papa Said"
16. Billy Paul "Let the dollar circulate"
16. Kitty Winter "Feel it"
18. Nancy Wilson "If I Ever Lose This Heaven"

runtime 1:16. Enjoy.