I'm doing this because I used to listen a lot of music and search for it. My dj days seem to be over, but I'd like people to enjoy my tedious scanning. This doesn't mean that this would be totally new music to you, but it's not mainstream either.
First I present you Bonobo - Kong
I think this would fall under the category of trip-hop or left field hip-hop. The fan made music video sparkles with life and is nicely tuned with the song. I could not help laughing to the elephants eating grass in pace with flute.
Second is Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - War
More heavy and maybe little violent sounding instrumental. This band is building on the influence of marching brass bands of New Orleans. Added drums creates a modern and more structured twist to it. And I like that old style music video very much.
Next comes Dennis Brown - Things In Life
I spotted the song from a movie Chungking Express: I just had to find it afterwards. "it's not everyday, you find good reggae".
To lighten up little, the last one is Girl Talk - All Day Mashup "Let It Out"
I don't know too much about girl talk. I just think it's possibly biggest tragedy in modern pop culture, that mashup art is extremely difficult to publish. But girl-talk is on Spotify!
I hope you enjoy. If you find this entertaining I might do it again.