Track of the Week – Jenova 7

Every week, Tape and Shuffle features a favorite tune by Evie and a special guest. As every song comes with a story to both the musician and the listener, sharing that story perfects the reason why music exists.  If you’d like to contribute your Track of the Week, please drop an email to evienereal2.0@gmail.com with a song and a story. 

Buenos dias, mi amigos! It’s the weekend, and albeit the weather is getting a little too hot too handle, let’s just be grateful for the finer things in life. Say, music?

My first ever guest post, let me introduce you to the gorgeous Nadzirah Hashim, the brains behind Friendly Fashion, who recently featured me as part of their Wonderful Women Bloggers Campaign (read my blog post about it). As a thank you to this beautiful woman, I’ve decided to ask her to feature her current favorite choons to share.

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I’m a music hunter. I can spend hours upon hours and hours just hunting for music. I hunt for music that gives me emotions that only I can understand. These emotions take me to unfamiliar places that are often beautiful, sometimes melancholic, quite dreamy and always surreal. Music is essentially my drug. And like various types of drugs – music has various genres. And I for one, enjoy getting high on plenty of genres – not drugs. 😛

And today’s favorite genre has got to be Trip Hop. Originating from the 90s, the genre itself has gotta be one of the most eclectic sounds one could experience for the ears. It’s like a candy bag filled with surprises. In general, trip hop can be recognized with its mix of breakbeats, some jazzy tunes combined with some downtempo hip hop beats and electronic sounds. But really, trip hop can go pretty far when it comes to experimentation and it’s up to the listener to decide which type of trip hop tickles their fancy. And at the moment, I am totally soundgasming to Jenova 7.

Everything about his sounds speaks to me. This is my type of trip hop. It reminds me of Bonobo and Forty Winks – both of which are my all time favorite trip hop musicians to listen to. But let’s not diverge the limelight away from Jenova 7. He’s only 22 years old but I can already see him contributing great tunes to the trip hop community. But I’ll let you decide on this. Have a listen to his music below and tell me what you think! 🙂

Jenova 7 & Mr. Moods – “Introspect” from Jenova 7 on Vimeo.

To get more of Jenova 7’s music, visit Soundcloud.  And to check out more of what I like, visit my tumblr at itsnhn.tumblr.com.

If you like what you hear, don’t forget to buy original Jenova 7 tracks via Bandcamp.