Genre Archives: Electronica

Enigma – MMX (The Social Song)

MMX - Cover

A few months back Enigma announced an interesting project in celebration of their 20th anniversary: The Social Song. The idea was to harness the power of the Social Web and create a song. Quoting from the website, “…it has been 20 years since Enigma’s first album was released… Up until now we have enjoyed our fans’ support, devotion and appreciation. … Therefore we would like to thank everyone that ever acquired an Enigma album, listened to our songs, expressed appreciation of our music or enjoyed this musical experiment in any other way. … How can we give back something that allowed us making music for such a long time? Well, we think that it’s time to let you be part

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Revolution Void – Increase the Dosage

Revolution Void - Increase the Dosage

Revolution Void is an electronic jazz music project from producer and pianist Jonah Dempcy and the album Increase the Dosage is one of the finest offerings to come out of this project yet. And the album is free to download and share. It mixes electronic beats and jazz to create a unique style of music called Electronic Breakbeat Jazz and it features distinguished guest musicians such as Seamus Blake (the Mingus Big Band), Michael Shrieve (Santana) and Matthew Garrison (Herbie Hancock). Matt Borghi, in his review at AllMusic.com has this to say, “…the Revolution Void recording is excellent and shows quite a gifted blend of sounds that defy genre specification, coming together and becoming quite cohesive. This is a very

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Triplexity – Between Light And Shadow

Triplexity - Between Light And Shadow

Triplexity, the name, comes from triplex and complexity. And this is a band which is completely “a virtual band consisting of 3 members who have never met each other face to face”! The story of this band is the story of three Jamendo users – SaReGaMa who lives in Israel, Nikila who is a Belgian in France and Hamelin who is also from France – who collaborate via the internet using all the tools that technology provides. I love the subtext on their website – Virtual Band with Actual Music – and the music is electronic as is to be expected for a collaboration of this kind. This is a genre that I have grown to like over the years,

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