Music you should know and might not be aware of. PART ONE

This is a music list. This is not a list of my favorite albums. It is not a list of the best albums of 2008. It is not a list of music that I won't be friends with you if you don't love. It is not a list in any particular order.

It is a list of music that you should listen to.




Perhaps.




I dunno, I like the music in this list. Maybe you will like the music on this list too.

This is a list listing music that is dear to me that many of my friends have not heard of.

Here goes (Part One):


°Doubledutch, Gungle Dungn

This is the first album from local youngsters Jordan and Dhani. I once had a drawing class with Jordan at PSU. She is very pretty. I digress. Gungle Dungn is by far my most favorite album to come out this last year. It is a sweet, diaphanous, yet somber sounding record that captures me every time I hear it. Dhani on drums lays down some juicy beats, while Jordan plays the keys and sings as though she is crafted from the finest honey. LISTEN NOW!
http://www.myspace.com/bubblebuttdoubledutch



°J Dilla/Jay Dee

J Dilla's work you have probably heard and do not realize it. He was a hugely important producer in the development of the Neo (Nu) Soul Hip Hip genre. He is a favorite of Erykah Badu, ?uestlove, A Tribe Called Quest, Common, Busta Rhymes, and many others. His beats are some of the most booty shake worthy around and always please the party. He is not a great rapper, but this does not matter, because a) most of his stuff is instrumental or music heavy, and b) when he does rap it is over the most killer beats available, automatically elevating his vocals. Unfortunately he passed away in 2006 from Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic Purpura and Lupus. LISTEN NOW!
http://www.myspace.com/jdilla



°Camille, Le Fil

I can only speak for this one album by Camille, she has several others but I haven't had a chance to grab them yet. This album is a doozy. Using the human voice almost entirely for the production of the album, Le Fil is a transcendent experience of listening pleasure because despite that fact, you hardly notice that it is true. It feels like a fully fleshed out album with drums, and guitar, and piano, and whatnot, but in fact it is a bunch of very talented vocalists saying "boop boop di doop," and "oooooooOOOOooooo0000ooooo," and "shooba doop da dooba," over and over and over again and all at once with Camille's lilting french vocals soaring above them. Now, there are instruments as well, but they are so blended with the vocals that one is pressed to find them with their ear should they search. LISTEN NOW!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIuyVAXvf1k


MORE TO COME!!!