Los Angeles-based Matthew David (or matthewdavid) makes some tangled up soundscapes based on lo-fi recordings, warped samples and various other abstract sonic elements.
He released his commercial debut EP “Spills” on Plug Research label in 2008. He releases free music through the websites of his own label, Leaving Records, and dublab.
In 2010 All City released a split EP with Take. An album is scheduled for release on Brainfeeder (Last.fm, 2010).
Computer Jay is a Los Angeles-based musician who uses the sounds of dusty old video-game consoles to make hip-hop beats. You can hear the product of his labors on his Myspace page or listen to his nasty Atari 2600 mix “2600 Ways to Krush” at dublab.com (Last.fm, 2010).
Onra is a French beatmaker currently residing in Paris.
He released his first album with other french producer and friend Quetzal (Al Quetz) in 2006. A hip-hop tribute to soul music which was played several times by Gilles Peterson, Benji B, and covered on Okayplayer.com.
At the same time, he started collaborating with American keyboard player called Byron The Aquarius and released an album under the name of The Big Payback in 2007 on Japanese label Circulations. A project full of different influences such as futuristic hip-hop, spaced out and jazzy broken beats. They also appeared on highly praised compilations such as Beat Dimensions and New Worlds.
In 2006, he went to Vietnam for the first time, the land of his grand-parents, and managed to bring back some 30 Chinese and Vietnamese old vinyls. He then made a full album with this material called Chinoiseries. Currently his most critically acclaimed album, “Chinoiseries” became the trademark sound of Onra since the song "The Anthem" has been chosen to illustrate a Coca-Cola TV commercial for Beijing Olympics.
In 2008, he has been selected to attend the prestigious Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona.
He is also part of the 7x7 series by Irish label All City.
His latest project called 1.0.8 was inspired by bollywood music and had been elected as album of the week by many different shops across Europe.
He recently started touring with his two mpc1000’s to play some beats live, and has already been performing in Japan, China, Spain, Scotland, Ireland, Lithuania, Poland, England, Austria, New Zealand, Vietnam, Switzerland, Netherlands, and France (Last.fm, 2010).
Hailing from Southern California, Dayeve Xienze, real name Dayeve Masangcay is a skilled underground hip hop and trip hop disc jockey, who loves to make sample-based music with a touch of acoustic guitar and keyboard, ever since 1998. His music can be considered abstract, experimental, distinctive, eccentric, weird and wonderful. It can be categorize as trip hop, underground hip hop, turntablism, breakbeats, electronica, cinematic, avant garde, film score, and space age.
This blog is dedicated to my Trip-Hop, Downtempo, Electronica, Dubstep, and Underground Hip-Hop Instrumental Addicts.In this blog, I will be spotlighting a beat innovator from around the world each day. I will also provide the artist's bio, album releases, music videos and more.
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