Electro-cool: Nameless Dancers, Lavoura, and more
This week’s episode is featuring music that combines many genres: jazz, electronica, latin, Bollywood, drum and bass, and whatever else the artists felt like into a nicely chilled mix that, for lack of a better word, I’m calling electro-cool.
In the first half we’ll be hearing from Nameless Dancers, Damare, Nienvox & 813, and Duis. Nameless Dancers features afro-beat percussion, tasty keyboards, a full-up brass section, and an outstanding drummer and bassist. Damare tilts more toward electronica, with excellent keyboard work, both electric and acoustic, and heavily manipulated samples. Nienvox and B13 conbines jazz and trip-hop into a dance-oriented mix, and, last, Duis mixes heavier electronics, jazz, and funk into a fascinating and unpredictable mix.
Due to unforseen circumstances, I had to push my break to a little later in the show, so I played a couple of unannounced tracks from Lavoura, a great band from Brazil, with their updated take on bossa nova and Latin jazz.
A minor emergency caused me to cut the second set a bit short, but the podcast episode will have the tracks we missed live: more Lavoura, a few fusion tracks from Martin Lowack’s SlowDrive, and then a last couple tracks from Lavoura and Nameless Dancers to round us out the the full two hours.
- Nameless Dancers: Morning Touches
- Damare: Hologram Summer
- Nienvox & 813: From the Bottom of Nowhere
- Duis: Duis
- Lavoura
- Martin Lowack: SlowDrive