Well, maybe we don't sound like these artists exactly, they are all influential in their own way though and if you like any of them then you will probably like Evolve... Kruder & Dorfmeister, Tosca, Caia, Groove Armada, Thievery Corporation, Telepopmusik, Massive Attack, Morcheeba, St. Germain, Underworld, Air, Zero 7, dZihan & Kamien, Alex Cortiz, Bliss, Blu Mar Ten, Boards of Canada, Bonobo, Conjure One, The Dining Rooms, DJ Shadow, Funki Porcini, Imogen Heap, Karminsky Experience Inc, Kaya Project, Mohan, Nightmares on Wax, Omnimotion, Peace Orchestra, Propellerheads, Seed, Sofa Surfers, Telefon Tel Aviv, Visit Venus, Suba.
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News, Notes And Links:
Red is a resident DJ at Glow in Marina Del Rey, check schedule for dates.
"Happy Hour In The Gene Pool" was ranked 9 in the Musical Starstreams 2006 Top 20
"The Way Back" was ranked 10 in Subsonic Temple's Top 10 for December 2006
The first release on our new label, Below Zero Minus 1, is slated for end of July 2008. It features 16 tracks by some great downtempo artists. Were very excited about this one...
Calmscape is the new downtempo "chill-spot" on the web. A great source of electronica and downtempo lounge music, recommendations and reviews. Check it out!
Properly Chilled is one of the classiest destinations for downtempo chill electronica. Featuring music, reviews, news and discussions, this is a great spot for anyone into the chill scene... highly recommended. Bookmark and visit often!
We support Internet Radio, thank you all for YOUR support.
License this music for commercial use through Pump Audio
Red & Margo encourage all our friends to support the fight to keep internet radio from being shut down by the proposed royalty rate increases mandated by the CRB. Click the link below to read an email from Red and a great response from Donna Phillips of Smooth Lounge. There are also links to PSA's recorded by Red & Margo urging support of HR2060 (the Internet Radio Equality Act).
On a recent trip to Anchorage Alaska Margo was interviewed by Slackline Radio's Chris Lindsey. It's a fun and entertaining interview in which Margo and Chris talk about all things electronica, writing and recording with Evolve, the meaning of life, and of course share some delicious recipes. Click below to hear the interview.
Glow got a very nice review in the LA Times recently. Red is one of the four DJ's at Glow contributing to the down-tempo chill lounge vibe. Check Red's DJ schedule for dates. Read the review here: www.calendarlive.com
Jer-ney lounge bar at The Ritz Carlton, Marina Del Rey.
Much love to our friends Sandy, Donna, Jamie and the team at Smooth Lounge for their enthusiasm & support.
Many thanks to Mason at Below Zero on Energy 92.7 FM for giving us the opportunity to spin some fav tracks in our featured DJ mixes. Red is now a resident DJ on BZ, his first mix (as resident) will be July 15th 2007.
Lounging Sound has featured four tracks from Happy Hour In The Gene Pool in its new mixed set called "Serve Chilled", thats just the way we like it... thanks Jourdan!
Big thanks go out to DJ Dub Ninja at Subsonic Temple for the great review and featured artist spot...
We would like to thank Jazzy Lounge for their continued support. Check out this excellent source of cool jazz lounge on www.live365.com
Thanks to Emjoy and Frank Korf for being so supportive, a great downtempo/chill station playing some really cool grooves.
Thanks to Katrina and all at o2 for featuring us on their website and MySpace pages.
If you like cool downtempo beats you will definitely love Mosaic. Big thanks go out to DJ Stylo for the featured artist spots.
For the ultimate in chill locations, Slackline radio are based in Anchorage Alaska! Big thanks to DJ Chris Lindsey for the interview and album review.
We just heard that some of our tracks are being used in upcoming episodes of MTV's Road Rules and The Real World. Check blog for dates and episodes.
To hear Evolve or more down-tempo chill electronica check out Live365. The best internet radio with over 4000 stations to choose from... we love it!
We love Soma FM and are thrilled to be playlisted on Groove Salad. Thanks for your support Rusty! Soma FM is the premier source for 24/7 downtempo. If you're an electronica fan this is as close as it gets to nirvana!. Tune in... chill out.
For Podcasters... pick up our tracks from Podsafe and use them in your Podcasts.
We'd like to thank all our Podcaster friends for adding us to their playlists. Below are links to some great chill/downtempo pod shows that we're sure you'll love as much as we do...
And what a swanky, swirling, sophisticated happy hour it is! A mingling mélange of smooth grooves and chilled tracks from beginning to end. Evolve has a superb and intelligent recording here; one that makes even the most blasé music enthusiast sit up and take notice with its rich instrumentation and arrangements featuring killer drum programming and loops, trumpet, flugelhorn and keyboards, as well as brilliant lyrical notions and outstanding vocals from the sultry Margo Reymundo and intriguing nu-rap from Tantrum. The man behind the evolution of Evolve? Only the coolest Brit in California with a name to match, Red Broad. Red's work on HAPPY HOUR IN THE GENE POOL is deep and poignant, yet shallow enough to wade in with friends while sipping cocktails. Evolve is genre defining in my opinion; a standard by which other artists should measure their work and quality. In a time when the music industry requires life support, Evolve has just shot an injection of clever and unique into its veins and offers the consumer a reason to buy the entire project, not just a tune. More please! More music that appeals to the senses and packages itself in a stunning, shiny digipak that you never want to put down. SmoothLounge.com invites you to Evolve.~SANDY SHORE
This is a very impressive debut record. “Happy Hour In The Gene Pool” will someday be synomonous with chill-out electronica. Superb downtempo breaks are layered with thick heavy bass backbeats while the hi-hats and snares clack to an effective tempo. The production is absolutely excellent with smooth highs and plenty of mids to get the tweeters pulsing. Intelligent electronic music for the lounge generation. - J-Sin, Smother Magazine (www.smother.net)
Outstanding ! Brilliant ! Sublime & Sexy...a Monster Groove. The GrooveTone Lounge of Liquid Soundz places "Happy Hour in the Gene Pool" as a "TOP Shelf" Lounge Groove. It is a rare thing indeed to find an album with so much well crafted sonic finesse. How many discs do you own, where nearly every track has such artistic clarity that you wind up listening to the whole thing whenever you put it on...without reaching for the next track button. This is an outstanding work...book me a room and bring on the chilled Martinis...I'm not going anywhere. Bravo! GT
Red Broad has developed his theories for music production. Is it “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny?” I don’t think so. Is it “survival of the fittest?” Probably not. These descriptions have been created to illustrate the theory behind Darwin’s “natural selection.” Some have called it evolution, but even Charles avoided the use of this term in his seminal “Origin of Species” because it implies an idea of perfection. In reality, Darwin’s ideas were meant to describe a process of change. Red Broad has perfectly chosen the name Evolve to describe his method for writing music that is a process of change. And, on Happy Hour in the Gene Pool each track moves and morphs to create a unique musical organism.
With Evolve, Red has perfected an experiment where many styles of music are assembled together that makes this first release stand out amongst the human population of electronic acts. Red is an English transplant who has made contact with some interesting collaborators On Happy Hour in the Gene Pool, and there is no lack of creativity here. It breathes of many different life forms from the triphop sounds of “Isolated, Detached & Remote” to the nujazz rebirth found on “Couldn’t Be More Wrong.” On the latter, we find the subtle, sultry vocals of Margo Reymundo that carries this track through a metamorphosis of sorts. This track is ripe for martini hour. Her wealth of vocal experience shines on “Couldn’t Be More Wrong” and on “The Way Back”, and the listener begins to believe that Evolve is an intelligent species. Happy Hour is further complimented with the nice beat work found on “Bushwhacked,” a name that we Americans might find humor in. “Bushwhacked” moves sinuously with a heavy bass line that carries an air of spy sophistication. The gene pool continues to remain diverse on this release as we hear the urban influence of Tantrum. “By Definition: Cool” and “Mice on the Ice” are his offspring, and Tantrum provides an edge with rap against hip-hop sounds that add to a well-rounded selection on Happy Hour. Other downtempo tracks like “Mellow” and “Rusty Ferrari” have interesting use of brass that is sometimes wrongly overlooked in the world of electronic music.
Throughout the 60 minutes on Happy Hour, we find an eclectic mix of electronic sounds infused with horns, guitar, lyrics, and great production work. Each track is an “evolutionary” process of musical “creation,” two words often considered polar opposites in the modern world of science and religion. But in music, Evolve proves that their process for writing the music on Happy Hour in the Gene Pool can cross any divide and create something beautiful. ~Chris D. (Slackline Radio)
Evolve's Happy Hour In the Gene Pool is a must have for lovers of downtempo, trip hop and jazz laced lounge grooves. What could easily be called the Evolution of Downtempo & Lounge for me is more like the perfection of chilled and downbeat grooves. Harvested at just the right time Evolve taps into that euphoric nerve center that makes everything alright. The album's mix of jazzy lounge grooves sprinkled with some hip hop flavor make this CD a clear favorite for those wanting to chill after a long days work or anytime. Mixed to perfection, the CD carries you smoothly with style and subtleness and just as a finely mixed drink hits you with an intoxicating buzz that will make you smile and yearn for more. Excellent production quality and musical arrangements highlight this CD and attest to the skills of producer, mixer and song writer Red. Fresh food and great recipes are nice on their own, but it takes a talented chef to bring the right components together mixed and seasoned to perfection. Red's supporting cast, Chris Barron, Freddy Kron, Evan Avery Margo Reymundo and Tantrum certainly do just that. And this is just their debut CD!! --DJ Dub Ninja, Subsonic Temple (www.subsonictemple.com)
Evolve's chilled out grooves and breaks are produced by Red. Their debut outing, Happy Hour In The Gene Pool is a delightful blend of lounge pop, subtle beats, found sound, and mellow jazz influences, a lounge lizards idea of heaven on Earth. The overall vibe is predominantly mellow, and the arrangements ooze sophistication and depth. Singer/co-writer Margo Reymundo features on two tracks contributing her distinctive raspy, Billy Holiday-esque jazzy vocal stylings to "Couldn't Be More Wrong" and "The Way Back", with rapper Tantrum providing the testosterone on "By Definition: Cool" and "Mice On The Ice". Happy Hour In The Gene Pool manages to stay focused and coherent throughout it’s sixty plus minutes while providing enough diversity to maintain interest, and enough depth to sustain repeated listenings. Most of the tracks presented here are ripe for the plucking by nearly any of the hundreds of chill out mix albums being released. The album is equally enjoyable to chill out to whether on headphones, at a cocktail party or on a long drive. Happy Hour In The Gene Pool contains a little something for every electronica music fan, which, in this case, is a good thing.
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We are very excited to announce that our first downtempo compilation CD is finally ready! It will be released mid July 2008. It features 16 great tracks by 16 great artists. Click on the poster below to be taken to our Below Zero website, or head on over to Amazon, iTunes or Beatport to pick up a copy.
If you need to chillout and unwind, checkout some of Red's downtempo mixed sets.
They can be be found on Red's podcast SofaSonica at podOmatic and iTunes. Red's mixed sets are also featured on Below Zero Energy 92.7FM. where he is a resident DJ, and also incorporated into his live sets. All the mixed sets here are one hour long. We will add more as they become available. Please contact us for playlists or click on Show Tracklistings at Below Zero. You can also contact us here regarding DJ bookings.
Red on the decks at Glow
We also love Piet Blank's downtempo mixes, here is a link to his site...
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Thanks for the add Evolve, I love your sounds btw, awesome!
If you get a chance, please take a listen to our first Chill out release "Beach Music, Cafe Music & Bar Music Collection" by ACO Ambient Chill Out. We'd love to know what you think of it!
CLAUDIA CREAM FT FATMAN SCOOP " JUST A LITTLE BIT", FLANDERS "TIME", RICHARD GREY "SUCH A SHAME", SANDER VAN DOORN VS ROBBIE WILLIAMS "CLOSE MY EYES", APDW "CIRCUS", BIMBO JONES "AND I TRY"..
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