Before I ventured in to funk music and
all that jazz, downbeat was my first true love.
My love for downbeat began long before I started listening to electronic music around 2000 when I discovered albums like Quantic's "The 5th Exotic” or TM Juke's "Maps From The Wilderness". Downbeat, for me, was the next chapter, the evolution of trip-hop from the 1990s (not talking about vocal trip-hop like Morcheeba). Especially the drums on the albums from the 2000s sounded much better to me than the beats from the 1990s albums.
Aside from funk, every now and then I produced downbeat tracks myself, following the artists and albums I liked at that time or even in later years in a fit of nostalgia.
Here's some more previously unreleased downtempo goodness from the vaults. Most of the songs were done between 2014 and 2015.
When you produce music you have dozens maybe even hundreds of unfinished ideas, songs and drafts. These four were finished, but never saw the light of day, until now. Here they are available now for the first time on this second 'lost and found' EP.
credits
from Lost and Found #2,
released March 10, 2023
Written and produced by David Hanke
Bass on Prelude to Midnight by Alexander Bednasch
Mastered by Fabian Tormin
Artwork by chrispop.
supported by 6 fans who also own “Nothing Under the Sun”
Like so many others, this came like a bolt out of the blue and, even though it's well before payday, I had to have this astonishing album on vinyl to prove it exists. The feel of the tunes makes me feel like the Impressions do, Curtis Mayfield, the big spaces and instinctive horns and stuff drifting in and out. Great grooves and I can see lots of ghosts nodding along to this with big smiles on their faces. At last! Anthony Cottrell