Music from My Mailbox
It’s been a little more than a month since I’ve dug into the Licorice Pizza mailbag, so I figure it’s about time, before the gentle people who send me music start to think I hate them. I’ll just blame the holidays for the delay....So, without further delay, and in alphabetical order, here is some of the latest music to find its way to me.
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4hero (feat. Carina Andersson) Morning Child (radio edit).mp3
Suffused with a love of black music history (think Roy Ayers, Rotary Connection, Sun Ra, Minnie Riperton, Afrika Bambaataa), and technical innovation, 4hero's unique brand of alchemy has given us genre-defining albums and breakthrough anthems that stand out as milestones in the history of dance music. After releasing early rave classic "Mr. Kirk's Nightmare," they established Reinforced Records and unleashed "Goldie" onto the world, as well as material by Doc Scott, Photek, Peshay and Grooverider.
Band Web site
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Benzos Coup d’etat.mp3 What happens when you take everything you know about music theory and throw it out the window? For Benzos, Stinky Records’ New York-based, genre-bending quartet, it is not mere experimentation – it is their raison d'etre. Hence, it is no surprise that their sophomore album, Branches, seamlessly blends the ambience and rhythm of early underground dance and experimental electronic music with lush, rock-based guitars and soaring vocals.
Band Web site
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Goodtimes Goodtimes Sea Shanty.mp3 Goodtimes Goodtimes is the solo project of Franc Cinelli, an Italian raised in London. Drawing on traditional blues, folk and country music, the songs of Goodtimes Goodtimes are infused with the musings of a young man who is as much at home in London's Soho as in Rome's Trastevere or New York's Lower East Side.
Band Web site
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lowstar Alphabet Blues.mp3There’s no large amount of information about lowstar, who describe themselves on both their Web site and their MySpace as “a 4-piece band based in London who make an atmospheric, energetic, big noise.”
Check ‘em out.
Band Web site
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