Laroca - Valley Of The Bears

Chilled, groove-laden, cinematic, yet accessible, world music without being 'beardy', like a more considered Basement Jaxx without the frantic style-droppingTurntable culture and digital wizardry mix promiscuously with real instruments played live in the studio. Lush electronica and chopped-up 21st century beats fuse effortlessly with exotic gypsy flavours, tango rhythms and timeless Sufi soul. Influences there are a-plenty, from Massive Attack to Gotan Project with a thousand musical stopovers in between. And yet Laroca still manage to sound like none of them.