Andrea Benini is a musician, music producer and composer from Cesena, Italy, and is more commonly known as
Mop Mop, or at least the head of a changing group of musicians who use that name. In 2005, collective Mop Mop released an album of
cool vibes, spare paino lines, tight grooves (
5 sample tracks, streaming on Grooveshark). The group has changed over the years, releasing a total of four albums, with the most recent, Isle of Magic, containing
13 tracks of pure voodoo jazz, Caribbean flavors, Afro-funk, exotic rhythms and soul music.
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posted by filthy light thief
on May 10, 2013 -
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Back in May of this year,
Mayer Hawthorne put together
a free collection of covers and descriptions of the tracks. The collection includes covers of The Isley Brothers (
Work To Do,
1972), Chromeo (
Don't Turn The Lights On,
2010), The Festivals (
You’ve Got The Makings Of A Lover,
late 1960s), Shorty's Portion (Fantasy Girl or Child,
1975?),
Jon Brion (
Little Person,
2008), and Electric Light Orchestra (
Mr. Blue Sky,
1977). Chances are that you've heard of (or at least heard from) most of these artists, except
Shorty's Portion, a one-off band with a small-run album. The group was centered around Steve Salazar, who was born with a hole in his heart, and died just short of his 27th birthday.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 2, 2011 -
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