I’m happy to say that I’ve managed to buy some really good albums during the last couple of weeks. To start with, my journey in the world of electronic jazz continues. This time I stumbled across two artists that have been on my shopping list for some time: Metropolitan Jazz Affair and The Cinematic Orchestra.

I can’t remember how I got to know about Metropolitan Jazz Affair, but their debut album (album link: MJA have been on my shopping list for few months. The album is a really nice and clever fusion of electronic jazz and soul that…

I discovered that Jazzanova has made another release under the Blue Note Trip series. I liked the first one (Blue Note Trip – Lookin’ Back/Movin’ On) so when I noticed this second one (Blue Note Trip – Scrambled/Mashed) I decided to buy this one too. The tracks are from a wider time span than on the first album and so there’s little more variation between the tracks. Initial impression after couple of listenings is that it’s perhaps not quite as good as Lookin’ Back/Movin’ On. Reason for this goes to more variation between the tracks which means that Scrambled/Mashed does…

I bought Amateur Girlfriends Go Proskirt Agents couple of weeks ago and dispite the positive things I had read about it, I was still positively surprised. An excellent album full of funky electronic jazz with quite a unique sound. Apparently, the album has been recorded live, which is really hard to believe since all of the elements are so precisely timed together. (Well, after seeing Kraftwerk 'live' I've learned that everything is possible in the area of live performances.) Although the material could be considered slightly challenging, when I’ve been playing the album to friends everyone has liked it. Highly…

I have been really busy with work and have not had time to update my journal with the new music and artists I have come across during the last couple of months. I have discovered quite a lot of artists that have been new to me. But hopefully I have time to write more about those later; I'll start with some new releases from some of my old favorites:

- Superbi. I used to listen quite a lot of The Beautiful South them in the past, so I knew I had to buy their latest when it was released.…

Another couple of weeks have gone by and somehow I again ended up buying much more music than I originally intended to. It seems that I'm moving from one-to-two albums a week to completely new levels.

- Toujours le même film.... What an album! This release from Urbs is a superb example of an album that is much better than sum of the songs it contains. And an excellently thought out as a complete experience including not only the music, but also the covers. You know exactly what to expect when you see the album cover: melancholic, jazzy, mostly…

Here's what I have so far bought during April. There's some new stuff in the post, I hope to receive them this week:

-What We Must. Album that I completely missed last year. I remember reading all the raving reviews, but for whatever reason I did not by the album. Now that I have, I must say that I was fool for not buying it before. Excellent stuff and by far the best album that I have bought in a while. (Come to think of it, I think Universal Four was probably the last album that has made…

Four purchases during the last two weeks. Three out of four are best of collections from the artists that no-one ever admits to be listening to but whose yearly 'best of' (typically released for the holiday season) sells like hot cakes. So just to fix some gaps in my collections I decided to buy Complete Greatest Hits,
Barry White - Gold: The Very Best Of Barry White (link Gold: The Very Best Of (disc 1)) and The Best of Funkadelic.

The fourth album I have bought is Teleport, which is the bands fourth and latest album.…

I bought my first Tosca album (J.A.C.) just couple of weeks ago. I liked what I heard so I went and bought Suzuki and Dehli9, which is a 2CD experience. Both albums are pretty much what I expected; downtempo electro jazz with some dub elements. For some reason that I've not been able identify Dehli9 sounds more 'live', while Suzuki seems to be more produced / engineered. Dehli9 (disc 1) is pretty much what I would suspect that people expect from Tosca and a great album as such. I personally would rank it over both the Suzuki…

Haven't done this in a while, so here is a list of albums I have bought in the last month or so:

J.A.C.. Tosca has been on my to-be-bought list for ages but I did not get a round to buy anything from them until last week. After one session listening to the album I was already sold. I will most definitely buy more of their albums. One of those artists that I should have become aware of much much earlier.

The Life Pursuit. This one was bought on impulse and is my very first Belle and Sebastian…

Nothing really new, but I did make some findings on the bargain bin at the local what-used-to-be-a-record store (in alphabetical order) last week:

Talkie Walkie. Although I like Air, I did not by this when it was published but decided to wait until it’s on Mid/Nice price selection. Decision was made on principle that I try to avoid buying copy protected disks and just refuse to buy them at full price. However, now that I found the album on bargain bin at 8 euros, I decided to buy it. It’s not like would have been buying it blindfolded.…