He was born in Sweden, in Trollätten to be precise, in 1969. He spends all his youth in Skara, where he founded, when he was 10 years old, his first band: May Tuck, with whom he plays punk. He also followed a so-called “classical” learning, in practicing the clarinet and saxophone. During his adolescence he [...]
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
From his real name Seba Jun, this hip-hop producer and Japanese DJ leads the independent label Hyde-Out Productions, and manages two record stores: T Records and Guinness Records. Unfortunately, this artist is almost unknown outside Japan, despite the high quality of his tracks.
The originality of Nujabes productions lies in its Cool Jazz influences and the [...]
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
The Doors is an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles. It combines Jim Morrison’s singing, Ray Manzarek’s keyboard, John Densmore on drums and Robby Krieger on guitar. This is one of the most famous band of its time especially because of the Jim Morrison’s lyrics and his tendency to excess in all [...]
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Do we still need to introduce Portishead? This group of trip-hop formed in 1991 by Geoff Barrow, after his works with Tricky or even Massive Attack, and Beth Gibbons. The group’s first album: Dummy, published in 1994, was a symbol for a whole generation by embodying perfectly the trip-hop spirit. Their second album, the eponymous [...]
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
Death is probably the thing which haunts the most artists who assume their spleen. Some singers use metaphors, but on his first album, french duet Mendelson treats this subject frankly.
Released on Lithium (the label which discovered Dominique A), famous for his jansenist aesthetic (productions of the label were often sad and slow), and itself closed, [...]
Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.
