ORIGINAL MUSIC |
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This section contains a constantly growing list of hi-fi MP3s of original music written in the period since early 1999 up until this day, listed in the reverse chronological order. Approximately half of the songs on the recently released album "Moods for Take Out" is available for free download. |
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2007 A.D. |
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Spin Cycle for Delicates and Romantics |
Atmospheric and groovey instrumental track where Native Instruments KORE platformn was used for real time tweaking of various envelopes and filters. This is one of the few tracks completed for the up-coming album in 2008. [Completed May 2007 / Logic 7.2 Pro / Sonarium Studios / San Francisco ] |
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2006 A.D. |
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Coming Closer |
This track is *different*, not house, and not mellow, it sits somewhere right in between, but I just love listening to it while driving on US101. [Completed January 2006 / Logic 6 Pro / Sonarium Studios / San Francisco ] |
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2005 A.D. |
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Seven Voices (Betrayal) |
Slightly melancholic, slow and moody, jazzy and groovy, this track is one of our personal favourites. same time. Let me know how you like it. [Completed April 2005 / Logic 6 Pro / Sonarium Studios / San Francisco ] |
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2003 A.D. |
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Simblissity |
Jazzy, mellow and dreamy this track slowly unfolds into a full featured and multi layered song, with an unexpected drum and bass part in the middle. Lyrics convey a story about blissful simplicity of life from the viewpoint of a somewhat intoxicated yet content existence. [Completed December 2003 / Logic 6.3 / Sonarium Studios / San Francisco ] |
Desoulate |
Very melancholic and sad, this track is filled with rainforest soundscape and a very live feel. It is also the first piece completely written in Logic Platinum 6.0, using Emagic's EVD2 and EVB6 instruments. The guitars are completely synthesized - which is mind boggling. [Completed March 2003 | Logic 6.0 | Sonarium Studios | San Francisco ] |
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2002 A.D. |
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Mon Chaton (Solaricous) |
This is one of Reason produced downtempo tracks, also one of the best. Composed entirely in Reason 2.0, it uses no single pre-recorded loop. [Completed November 2002 | Reason 2.0 | Sonarium Studios | San Francisco ] |
Margaritta |
This track was produced in October 2002 for the Infinite Beat Halloween party in San Francisco. It was produced entirely in Propellerheads software called Reason 2.0 on Mac OS-X and represents a shift for PolyGroovers music making. For the record, Reason rocks (oh, but not anymore, after I played with Logic...) |
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2001 A.D. |
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Without |
Dreamy, jazzy and deep almost ambient track that reminds me of the tropical forests of Thailand, inspired by a broken heart (although the heart has since been fixed) |
Coyote |
Remix of the original song played on MC505 at Cloudfactory NY 2000 |
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2000 A.D. |
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Synteltic Cantata |
Dramatic, yet very liquid song with warm synthesizer lines and strings, this track borrows some rhythmical structures from Hip Hop. |
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1999 |
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Real Illusion |
One of my first downtempo tracks, still one of the favourites |
Surreal In A Way |
Another downtempo track with vocal samples by Marissa Jesson, slap-bass and a Barry White piano line... |
Be strong
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Be Strong, and you can deal with anything. Another broken heart art... |
Rising |
Water is on your windscreen, this nasty foggy rainy morning. Something rising, you can't tell what. |
Prelude To a Sunrise
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Very happy and loving house track, one of my early favorites |
TWO FACES OF THE GROOVERS
PolyGroovers is an electronica / down-tempo duo, consisting of Konstantin Gredeskoul and Telene Johnston, a couple living and working in San Francisco. Both DJs with over five years of performing experience locally and internationally, Konstantin and Telene have been collaborating since 2001. Konstantin is the creative force behind the composition, arrangement and production of all songs, while Telene contributes vocals and a critical ear for what works and what doesn't. Starting 2006 PolyGroovers are collaborating with Maria Tumarkin - a published writer and a great friend. Maria is helping write lyrics for the third downtempo album, tentatively titled "Tips and Tricks".
PolyGroovers have been featured on SomaFM's Groove Saland since 2001 (although formerly known as PolyVinyl), performed live on KDVS (Davis) and KZSU (Stanford) radio stations, and have released two full albums of smooth down-tempo, lounge and organic grooves, with occasional vocal, instrumental and jazz elements.
AFFILIATIONS and OTHER PROJECTS
Konstantin of PolyGroovers additionally produces progressive and
house as a solo project leftctrl.
In addition Konstantin is involved with the house duo
Soulaire (with
DJ Kem).
Telene has past affiliations with Frequency 8 and Skills.
GROUP BIO
Konstantin was born in the Soviet Ukraine, where he spent his first eighteen years before moving to Australia. In 1997, Konstantin came to San Francisco where he met Telene - California native and a DJ with a solid name in the Bay Area progressive house and trance scene.
Passionate about music, the pair is continuously fascinated with the possibilities offered by modern software synthesis and composition tools. The duo's work is all about striving to create warmth, fluidity, and a smooth sound with their music, submerging their listeners into the deep atmosphere of hypnotic beats and jazzy harmonies.
MUSICAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The following people influenced, contributed, supported or in any other way had an effect on our musical direction, in no particular order: The Orb, The Art of Noise, Thievery Corporation, Tosca, Delirium, Zero 7, Air, Baby Mammoth, Blue Six, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Tori Amos, Olive, Frou Frou (and many, many more), Shura B2 (from the #1 hit selling Russian group B-2), Joseph Lee, Ethan Miller, Jeff Taylor, Kym Maxham, Cary Creel, Darin Marshall, Jon (Captain Tinrib) Bell, Filip Jach, Phil Lockwood, Eugene Miloslavsky, Tony Rose, Matt Donner, David Earl, Greg Gordon, Mike Robbins, Eric Newman, David Barthlemess, Velda Newman and Mad Rod of "Club Filter" in Melbourne.
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DOWNLOAD DJ MIXES |
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PolyGroovers sometimes djs (own music and other's).
Full length MP3 downloads of selected sets are available
for free on this page. |
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LIVE SETS |
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Live @ OODE X |
This progressive and house set was played at OODE-X camp-out in Oregon, on May 26th 2006. Three house tracks at the end are produced by Soulaire (joint project with Filip Jach - DJ Kem) and track No.2 produced with Captain Tinrib in London, UK. The rest © 2002-2006 PolyGroovers, produced in Sonarium Studios, SF. |
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SLOW AND MELLOW |
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Live and Venture Frogs |
Very relaxing and mellow this downtempo set was played live at Venture Frogs in San Francisco. Tracks from The Orb, Gotan Project, dZihan and Kamien, Banco de Gaia, etc. |
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HOUSE MUSIC FOR YOUR PET |
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Home-Deepó |
This is the most beautiful, soulful and deep set I have online. It unites music from Spain, Brazil and San Francisco's own Naked Music into a flowing glowing summer night on the beach mix. Funk yourself up, lit your spliff and hit that link with your mouse baby. |
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TECH-HOUSE / PROGRESSIVE |
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Perception |
This is a great set that spans over several genres: starting off with almost reggae/dub intro it moves onto house, then harder progressive and tribal sound, only to later bounce between house and progressive a few more times. Highly suitable for dancing and great for long car rides... |
Polynomial |
"Polynomial Recursions" - is one of the most danceable sets I've ever played. While it spans over several genres, such as house, minimal techno and even progressive house, it is all united by tribal feel and rhythmical structures that "chug along"... It feels like riding a horse in the flat fields among bare hills and extinct volcanos. It is heavily influenced by the natural beauty of New Mexico. |
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TECHY, MELLOW AND DEEP |
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Deependency |
"Deependency: Space Invariant Tech House" - is an intelligent, slow pacing and mostly mellow tech house. Greate for philosophizing and questioning life and surrounding objects. |
PreDawn |
"Pre Dawn" is a mellow and dreamy tech-house mix, just like most people are at the pre-dawn after a party. |
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LATEST NEWS |
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Sep, 2007 |
Wow, can't believe this summer is ovah! A lot happened in the last few months - we performed live at Shimmer/3Degrees campout in Willits, LeftCtrl played at FnF 2007 campout, and we just finished two new songs for the upcoming album "Ticks and Trips". Sorry, won't be uploading songs until the album is ready, but we are going to aim for mid 2008 release. Stay tuned! |
Feb, 2007 |
PolyGroovers is now downtempo-only! We split off the house / progressive project into it's own thing: LeftCtrl is the new name of Konstantin's solo project, focusing on dancefloor friendly tracks. Watch out for more stuff to come out of there soon! |
Oct, 2006 |
Another progressive track written for FnF/UrbanWasteland Halloween party in San Francisco. The track is called "Anything You Want" and it had a great reception at the party. Check out in the tracks section. We may be splitting out progressive house into a separate projects.. PolyGroovers are mostly known for downtempo, so it kind of makes sense. Any name suggestions are welcome! |
Sep, 2006 |
Three new progressive tracks posted - "Hypnotunnel", "Operator" and "Copious Amounts". Check them out in the tracks section! |
May, 2006 |
May 2nd, 2006, San Francisco, CA:
The 2nd downtempo album by PolyGroovers aptly named
"Moods For Take Out" is out now! |
April, 2006 |
While the new album is in print, we've established a new collaboration
with a good friend and a fantastic writer
Maria Tumarkin" -
the author of the book "Traumascapes". Maria agreed to write lyrics
for our next album, and the work is already under way. |
October, 2005 |
We are in the process of getting the full-length downtempo
CD published via CD-BABY. The CD has been already mastered,
and we are working on the cover art. This is super
exciting, as it is our second CD release in the last 5 years and
it contains plenty of new material. |
January, 2005 |
Ugh, the last six months were totally mad! I moved, started a company with friends, and proposed to my girl. Like that was not enough, also wrote a song - "Get Naked" (download in TRACKS section). Struggling to find time to write more stuff... |
July, 2004 |
Name change: we are now called "PolyGroovers" and my beloved girlfriend Telene has joined
the band officially. Several more tracks are coming in. Most notably - "Evil Eye"
which is already available for download, "Rub Dub" - another track from collaboration with
Kem is coming along. |
December 30th, 2003 |
Two more songs for the collection: both with lyrics and vocals - "Homeless Love" and "Simblissity". Check 'em out and Happy New Years! |
October 24th, 2003 |
"Chug Dub" and "Dark Dance of Bastet" - the two most recent tracks - are now availble on the web site, as well as "It's A Dream" has finally got its link fixed. Please shoot at me your impressions. I am now working on a new song "Homeless Love" with strong lyrics by my great friend Maria Tumarkin. |
September 26th, 2003 |
After a long summer break I am working on two songs at the same time. One is a collaboration with Kem (aka Filip) and the other one is a solo project. Both songs are dance tracks, between house and progressive. More news soon! |
May 28, 2003 |
"Black And White" - the first full length vocal song is now finished and available for download in the Tracks section. Vocals by my beloved Telene and myself. The goal is to have a downtempo/lounge CD release by the end of the year. Wanna get a copy now? Click on "STUFF". |
April 25th, 2003 |
The first track completely written in Logic is finished - check it out in the download section - "Desoulate". Damn, what a difference in sound quality Logic makes. I hereby declare to be completely converted into the world of Logic. Rejoice Emagic and make your buck! |
April 11th, 2003 |
My Logic Audio class is now finished - I am amazed at what Logic can do, and am now rapidly switching. I have already remixed two of my Reason songs ("Linoliumo" and "Baddonga Oi") in Logic and the sound quality is substantially higher. So far I am on track for remixing the other two Reason songs by the end of this month and then continuing on to new tracks. As a proud owner of Logic Platinum 6, I must take advantage of the investment - I did pay lots of money for it :) |
March 11, 2003 |
Let's see... Lately I've been seen busy running around like crazy hanging lights
and playing at Elastiq - every Wednesday @ Il Piarata.
Also, my "dive" into Reason 2.0 continues, with two new tracks coming out just in February - March 2003. |
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PAST EVENTS |
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Dec 14th, 2002 |
Altruity will host "Gift," a special holiday benefit to raise money for the TNDC, and will be featuring local and international visual artists, fashion designers, DJs, live music, chefs, etc... Zeel/PolyGroovers will be playing a lounge downtempo set, including own tracks. |
Nov 2nd, 2002 |
PolyGroovers played old and new original stuff in the downtempo room at the best morning time: 5:30am... |
Oct 30th, 2002 |
Halloween night at ElastiQ featured Zeel close up with some tasty beats... |
Oct 20th, 2002 |
Zeel was flexing his downtempo and lounge muscle at this super duper Sunday hangout location, on Hayes street next to BPM records. |
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STUFF FOR SALE
April 15th 2009, San Francisco, CA: PolyGroovers 3rd Album "Trips and Ticks" should be available shortly on cdbaby.
May 2nd, 2006, San Francisco, CA: PolyGroovers 2nd Album
"Moods for Take Out" is now available for immediate ordering online, for only $7.99.
GET YOUR COPY NOW while the stocks last.
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