Film Noir Spy Themes from GeeNerve

Suspense Dance Delights by GeeNerve (Guido Erfen) is an album we promoted years ago at Oddio. On listening to these film noir spy themes again, we knew we had to share this gem on Blogio, too. See the liner notes for more info. The notes are included in the cover art booklet, as well.

So Healthy Music, the label and netlabel Erfen co-founded, still offers several additional releases for your pleasure.

Official Website | So Healthy Music Label | Internet Archive

Music License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
Artist Location: Cologne, Germany

Eight Percussive Albums

Drum Ecstasy - H. D. M.
© All Rights Reserve

Blake Fleming - Time's Up
© CC BY-NC-SA

Drum Ecstasy - Drums Only
© All Rights Reserved

Cathedral Of Chemical Equilibrium - Sonic Action [Lloyd Rodgers, composer]
US Public Domain

Frank Long - The Pedro Tapes
© All Rights Reserved

Harlan - The Beat Maker
© CC BY-NC

Freestyle Percussion Magik - Freestyle Percussion Magik
© CC BY-SA

Dudeldrum - Dudeldrum
© CC BY-NC-SA

Luxurious Beats

Biga's album B Sides is out now! Fans of his comrade Digi G’Alessio, Brazilian loops, and hip hop beats will enjoy this one.

"Welcome to the eternal summer in the gardens of hip-hop! Life here is easy. Let yourself be refreshed by the light sampling breeze, away from hectic lifestyles and noisy streets. Dressed with an immaculate white kimono, you will be baptized in the fountain of holy funkiness, while angelic voices sing softly over non-quantized rhythms. Immerse yourself into Biga’s universe and let the dream come true."

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license: Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported 


[This album uses samples that are certainly not cleared, such as those of Astrid Gilberto. At the same time, this album also allows no sampling?]





Location: Florence, Italy

Instrumental Beats From Show N Prove

Beat-maker Show N Prove offers a strong selection of some of his work for free in a collection titled Instrumentals 2. MCs, do not want to miss this one.

"Scottish producer Show N Prove has literally owned 2012 in making hip hop and UK urban bangers. As his new cover states, he’s worked with a long line of prominent UK artists representing his signature sound churning out beats consistently." -- DJ Gully, Keep It Gully

Instrumentals 1 is also available for download at Soundcloud and streaming at YouTube.

Official Website | Soundcloud | Facebook | YouTube

license: assumed all rights reserved

Beats and Traditional Rhythms

Four albums of traditional peoples' music forms and/ or instrumentation given modern treatments and powerful beats

Beats Antique - Collide

 Official Website | Facebook | Bandcamp

Various Artists of Sojus Records - Progressive Folk

Label Website | Support |

Dudeldrum - Dudeldrum

Official Website | mySpace | Jamendo

Beats Antique - Tribal Derivations

Official Website | Facebook | Bandcamp

Ill Papa Giraffe

Black Lantern Music out of Scotland is a favorite label at Rancho Oddio. They just keep putting out fabulous hip hop from the highly polished to the humble.

Now Black Lantern Music presents the debut album by Ill Papa Giraffe, hip-hop coming straight out of Edinburgh. We love it.

Much below is copied directly from the release info, because I had to get this release into the post queue as soon as I heard the album. I love that Scotland hip hop scene and hope you will, too. Thinkers rapping a mile a minute up there! ~katya

Ill Papa Giraffe is made up of rapper Tickle of Burning Bright and Chemical Poets (both are Oddio favorites), superproducer Konnsky, producer for a whole host of Edinburgh rappers and DJ Symatic, who provides cuts for Burning Bright, some epic live guitar laid down by Sandy Galloway.

Tickle's distinctive, firebrand, politicized lyrics place him at the forefront of Scotland's new wave of hip-hop artists. Throughout the album (and his other projects), his technically flawless double-time rhymes and clear-eyed, conscious lyrics are reconfigured as hook-driven, crowd-pleasing hip hop anthems.

Ill Papa Giraffe are already blowing up the Internet with their addictive first single, "Love The Government", which features a kitten-themed video from director/animator Rob Wakefield. (Is that a clip from Yes Minister?)



With tracks of funk and jazz-filled breaks, insanely catchy choruses and mind-blowing verbal acrobatics, Ill Papa Giraffe are aiming straight for the heart of pop and rap fans everywhere, and is destined to be seen as one of the seminal albums in the history of Scottish rap. Get on board now!

Available now as a pay-what-you-can download from Ill Papa Giraffe's Bandcamp. Physical copies, too!



album license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic
 

Feeling Super Better Workout Mix

The Free Music Archive is a huge resource for making workout mixes. There is so much to choose from on the FMA that your workout mixes can be tailored to the speed, intensity, and length of your sets.

This Feeling Super Better "mix" is actually a kit for developing the perfect mix for your perfect body.  Feeling Super Better provides several selections for your breathing, warm-ups, reps, rests, and cool-downs.  Select tracks based on the speed and intensity of your current workout sets.

The title Feeling Super Better is inspired by SuperBetter, a free online service/ game that helps you achieve your self improvement and health goals — or recover from an illness or injury — by increasing your personal resilience.

Best wishes for your success in personal growth and health!

Divisions into steady repetitions, high intensity reps, warmups, breathing, rests, and cool-downs after the jump...

Recently Added to the FMA

Some albums recently added to the Free Music Archive by Oddio Overplay

Aaron Ximm - Handpans and the Hang
Aaron Ximm, also known as the Quiet American, is well-known for his One Minute Vacations project and his field recordings. In this casual recording, Ximm continues to be a quiet American as he experiments with a hang with calm, unearthly results....


Ant Neely - Not Fit For Human Consumption
Elements of Fat Boy Slim and John Barry collide with a mixture of funky beats, bleeps, old public domain voice recordings and orchestral textures. Contains elements of Morse Code, old educational film clips (courtesy of the Prelinger Archives) and is part of a Geotracking experiment....

Arrizabalaga, Bravo, Laginestra, Martinez - Contenido
Free-jazz improv from Spain featuring Pelayo Arrizabalaga of the Breuss Arrizabalaga Quintet

Various Artists [Freesound.org] - Walla Walla Walla 
Walla walla is the American term for atmospheric crowd background sounds in film and radio. In Japan, it is known as gaya, rhubarb the UK, rhabarber in Germany, and rabarbar in the Belguim, Netherlands, and Scandinavia.... This collection features actual groups and crowds recorded all over the world and generously donated for reuse at Freesound.org. Such recordings may be helpful to and appreciated by FMA visitors creating audio and video productions.

A Smile for Timbuctu

At Oddio Headquarters, we have a crush on the Italian group A Smile for Timbuctu. Members Cristiano Crisci, Simone Brillarelli, and Jonathan Calugi (graphic artist) are such great guys!

They were enthusiastic members of the origination of Kazoomzoom, the world's first netlabel for kids. They contributed a track to the first release, the Silly Songs compilation, and then an entire album, Our Corto Discorso. They also contributed a great deal of moral support and happy energy.

The music they created together was super bouncy electronica. Kids and grownups love to leap around to A Smile for Timbuctu songs. It is with great pleasure that we spread the news that the group is sharing three more albums on their own Bandcamp subsite:  two of their albums released on the Audio Aubergine label and their Brum LP.

You will also find more of their tracks at the Free Music Archive, including one named "Fresh Tomato" that makes us giggle.

Now on Bandcamp

On Kazoomzoom Netlabel

On Fresh yO! Netlabel and the FMA

genres: electronic, dance
licenses: see individual releases for licensing information

Love, Beats, and Pina Coladas

One of the masterminds behind the Italian group A Smile for Timbuctu, master Digi G'Alessio is proving to be as prolific as a solo artist. He can pack a dance floor like nobody's business. LOVE, BEATS, AND PIÑA COLADAS is a downtempo album packed still packed with his fat beats.

album license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) License

MUTE, Men of No Words

MUTE - Pavement Politics Vol.1 is a new arrival today at Jamendo. You can download it there or get the oggs below. (myspace profile)

cover art
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 01 - Hay Fever (Sleepless Night)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 02 - A Blue Hill Sunrise
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 03 - Brothers (version 4)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 04 - The Flats (Streets in the Sky)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 05 - Death by the Sword
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 06 - The Thief
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 07 - They Got What They Want
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 08 - Telescope 8
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 09 - Is It Too Late for Us All
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 10 - A Bloodly Death Smell (edit.1)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 11 - I Was in Hell (It Took Me)
MUTE - Pavement Politics - 12 - TSP Meets El Primo