AFI - All Hallow's EP (1999)

I have to give this CD a spin every October 31st. Happy Halloween!

Dert Floyd - The West Side of the Moon (2008)

This digital only concept album uses samples taken from the vastness that is Pink Floyd. It's interesting to hear how he chops everything to bits, then drops huge beats on top, making it difficult to actually tell what song the cut came from. I believe this man is a true player in the future of hip-hop.

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More full albums from Dert here and here.

Kid Loco - Jesus Life for Children Under 12 Inches (1999)

We're going back ten years now but it's hard to tell by listening. Kid Loco was an innovator in the early trip-hop days, strange considering his background playing punk rock. This is his own remixes of the '97 US debut A Grand Love Story. It's so dreamy.

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Boozoo Bajou - Dust My Broom (2005)

Boozoo Bajou is one of those artists I start playing and let it play on from album to album. Their music is, in one word, comforting. The scene here is a swamp, so the atmosphere is muggy and thick bass lines hang low in the air.

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Tosca - Suzuki (2000)

The clouds are beginning to move in, the temperature is dropping, and the rain falls throughout the night. Moving into darker territory with Tosca's most popular album. Usually I would post something a little less known, but it's too good to pass up. We have a classic here.

J.Viewz - Muse Breaks (2005)

Floating vocals and spacious auras carried by solid bass grooves and an arsenal of rhythms. It's rambunctious at times...but chill...

Nicolay - City Lights Volume 1.5 (2005)

I remembering hearing The Foreign Exchange for the first time and wondering where those tight beats were coming from. Tracks like "Raw Life" had me hooked. The answer is Nicolay from The Netherlands. Over the last few years he has taken the sound you have here and expanded it into new dimensions and genres, but it started with this.