From July 2009 to July 2010 my wife and I took a year off of life as we know it, traveled to South America, Southeast Asia, and India.

It was an incredible journey and now that we're back home it's been a long unwind to get back to "normal" life. While we were gone we rarely kept up with any media coming out except for the mp3 players we brought with us and we definitely made it a point see Avatar in 3D on the trip. It's going to take some time to catch up on movies and music and I was hoping you guys could steer me in the right direction for music...

the past year I've been listening to a combination of some favorites -

Hernan's Renaissance 2CD alot of Nick Warren website mixes Way out West - We love Machine Silversun Pickups - Swoon Pearl Jam - Backspacer Matisyahu - Light Alot of non-radio Bob Marley Ben Harper & Relentless 7 as well as some random stuff like Crocodiles, Emancipator, Jonsi & Alex, Mason Jennings...

So what's new, what's good? What should i check out?

Re: What happened last year?

Each of these artists have new albums you need to get IMO:

[video=youtube;iR_-UE_0TCc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR_-UE_0TCc[/video]

[video=youtube;vQ90LRaEIt0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQ90LRaEIt0[/video]

[video=youtube;KHIjXeBIUQA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHIjXeBIUQA[/video] (haha, maybe/maybe not)

[video=youtube;pWdRNfy5IC8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWdRNfy5IC8[/video]

more later....

Re: What happened last year?

You are in for a treat my friend. Quality all over the place. Just start d/ling. Fortier, Burridge, Lawler, everything Digweed, Howells, Cattaneo, Garcia, Seth troxler, etc.

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[LIST] [*] What happened last year? Good question :lol: ... Loads of good music, i can tell you that... ;) [/LIST] Parallel from Hernan and structures from diggers might be a good start!

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You mention Jonsi and Alex ;)

In that case, you should check out the Ambient thread :D

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[QUOTE=3hitsaday;880803] So what's new, what's good? What should i check out?[/QUOTE]

You've missed out on alot mate, however I'm pretty sure it was well worth it.

So I'd say (as mentioned earlier) start with Hernan's latest offering and definitely JD's Structures, do not miss any of JD's Kiss mixes this year ... they are off the hook, quite a few guest mixes as well have been killing it - my fav is from Monaque, then there's Chris Fortier's Mixes on his soundcloud page which are bloody fantastic and while you are there, grab yourself a soundcloud ID, cause you can track your fav artists and there's plenty to hear/download there. Oh not forgetting Aeroplane's June mix on sc as well.

Here's what I've had on rotation off the top of my head from P&R: Mercury Server 8th Birthday Mixes John Digweed - Live at Arma, Moscow @ 11-Sep-2009 Erphun - Live @ Club Exit - Lithuania-March13th_2010 Facundo_Mohrr_-Fallout_on_friskyRadio-15.06.2010 Gustavo Di Tomaso Fractal Luis_Junior-Proton_GT_on_Proton_Radio-29.06.2010 Martin_Garcia-Live@Journey(Pacha,Buenos_Aires)pt1-_27.03.2010 Bodytonic Podcast - Neiderflur.

Now the P&R section is chock-o-block with some gems, so I'd say get your grubby paws on any Guy J, Guy Gerber and Joris Voorn from 2010 and you won't be sorry.

Plus there's stellar albums out -

Trentemoller - Into_The_Great_Wide_Yonder Greg_Parker-10_Solutions Joris Voorn - Balance 14 Kontext - Dissociate GU 038 - Carl Cox - Black Rock Desert

I'm pretty sure that I'm forgetting some but I'll come back to them later.

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What a great thread!! :D 3hitsaday , you are going to love this forum :D

Btw it that username a pqm reference ??