The summer is gone. We have autumn now. But, let us look back to late summer time and to great music, I enjoyed in that time:

First, there is the the long awaited debut album Rise from the project Black Canvas, who are Mr. Melody, Rider Shafique and King Chubby J., already well-known from the work with Pressure Drop. Some tracks were already published as 12″s, now the album with quite nice reggae, breakbeats, drum’n'bass and hip hop tracks.

Lynx & Kemo gave a nice DJ & MC set in Icon club in Berlin some months ago. Their album The Raw Truth provides very interesting and varied drum’n'bass tracks and beyond.

Miss Platnum’s brand new album The Sweetest Hangover is the continuation of her successful fusion of Balkan tradition and soulful R’n'B music. There is a wonderful cover of Kate Bush’s Babooshka song.

Switch & Diplo, who provide crazy mashups sometimes, released a funny album full of disco, dancehall, hip hop, baile funk spirits: Guns don’t kill, lazers do!

The fusion of house with 1920’s coffee house, charleston & Balkan styles is characteristic for Parov Stelar. He did it again in Coco, his new 2CD album. Between pop and dancefloor. And I like it. And Monster is a monster track. And Nosferatu is cool, too.

There are also new and exciting dubstep tracks by the Bassbin Twins (Woppa), Quest & Mutiny (One Big Rhyme), Ramadanman (this artist name is really brilliant, Revenue) and DJ Wonder (What including the Caspa remix). The last one is not really new, because it is from 2008.

I listened to some Asian Beats tracks, too. Joi (Without Zero picked once again) vs. Parov Stelar (see above), Ed Solo & Skool of Thought (When I Was A Yout is almost already a classic) meet Chase & Status in an Eastern Jam (an Asian Dubstep monster), and MIDIval PunditZ (on the new Ethnotechno’s Revolution Rising compilation, but they also released their new album Hello Hello on Six Degrees Records) in the mix. Also new stuff from OMFO (“our man from Odessa”). The Ukrainian who lives in the Netherlands investigates the Oriental tradition of the former Southern Soviet Union’s countrysides (album Omnipresence). And I also listened to the classic track OK from Talvin Singh, because he was in Berlin recently giving a concert. The newly released sampler Eastern Standard Time (compiled by Alien Disko, label Weltraum Disk) consists of cool, funky, sometimes crazy tracks from the Far and Middle East. Let’s dance.

Furthermore, wonderful, not necessarily new music from Le Peuple de l’Herbe feat. JC001 (album Cube), Indian Ropeman (album Elephant Sound from the 1990ies is still cool!), Dhoop Sticks (German project with Indian music, album Indian Traffic), Thom (album Istory provides very beautiful electro pop songs from Germany), and Stoyan Yankoulov & Elitsa Todorova (Drumboy) from Bulgaria. Kinny & Horne cover the Reggae classic Bam Bam from Sister Nancy (12″ Us On Fire Ep from the cutting-edge label Tru Thoughts).

Furthermore, new studio and concert recordings as well as new remixes (e.g. from DJ Spooky) from the terrific debut Orphica are released by the London based Greek musician Mikhail on his lovingly designed 3 CD box Morphica.