I really am back on a synth thing. Here’s K V A S I R and First Throws putting synths front and centre of this 80s synth house sounding tune. The word this conjures up is orgiastic.
Here’s Stop for a Moment from Inchange’s album My Days & Nights. Russia’s Inchange offers something unconstrained by usual genres. An electronic frontispiece is backed by a spine of IDM hip hop beats. There’s also the frustrated rock god here with drum rolls and synths that sound like guitar shards. A veritably fine noise.
For a change of pace, here’s Winter. This is a softer, more downtempo, track that crackles with ice and freezing breath.
Blurb: Inchange – project of Michael Soldatkin, 28 years old producer from Russia, Vladimir. Started in 2013. At this moment have 4 albums, 2 EP. Making music in FL Studio at home studio. Learned musical theory by himself, playing guitar Most of all making atmospheric electronic, but also instrumental hip-hop, beats.
Three more melodic tracks for a Thursday.
First, Frisky Basket with Tech Noir. Taken from the album of the same name there are flashes of rave synth, bits of tranciness and some lo-fi attitude that combine brilliantly well on this track.
This is track 12 of 14 from a new album ‘Tech Noir’. The full album can be streamed + Downloaded here:
joneswills.wixsite.com/freesky
Secondly, mikwerdna with something funky and different. He says “Bumpin Boogie Ball is the first single from the album “The Best of Times” by mikwerdna. Coming Winter 2016!” There’s tinkly synths but backed by some offbeat beats that lurch around wonderfully.
Finally, Immersion and Fireflys. I do like a bit of something that has a sense of drone at the moment. And this is one of those tracks. It’s not truly drone but the repeated chords have that psychedelic sense of endlessness.
I had a stressful week at work. I called my boss a prick and told him to piss off. This did not go down well. I avoided the sack but the fallout from that little altercation left me wound up and worn out. So it was a most welcome pleasure to soothe my strung out and brittle nerves with this sublime collection of sounds from various artists brought together under an artistic umbrella known as The House of Eternal Return. This is an impressive haul of compelling and, at times, quite exquisite ambient.
There’s the dreamily cosmic sounds of ‘Lemon Twin’ (David Last) with its synth peals and gently throbbing bass or the sinister, pulsating but strangely beautiful tones of ‘Wrinkle’ (Feathericci). Eccentricity abounds with the likes of ‘Friday The 13th feat HOER Actors’ (Mi), the twanging, Ry Cooder-ish guitar overlaid by a peculiar conversation ‘twixt child and (robot) man or the eerie ‘The Fridge’ (Brian Mayhall), with its multiple voices ricocheting in all directions, a simple tonal vibration providing the sole musical relief.
Some enchanting kalimba style sounds propel ‘Forest Groove’ (Brian Mayhall) and ‘Electric Blood’ (Cole Wilson) whereas ‘Gibber‘ (Mi) is an incongruous but still appealing mix of stretched out synths, out of tune plucked guitar and warm beats. There’s even the nearly-twelve-minutes long, wondrous beauty of ‘Beamspace feat. Tara Khozein (David Last Version)‘(Mi & Kevin Zoernig), a somniferous, captivating combination of softly repetitive beats a la Philip Glass and celestial vocals that drift in and out.
There’s another dozen or so tracks here spanning beats and beatless, synths and acoustic guitar, vocals or none, vaguely orthodox but often quite oddball. It’s beguiling and different without being pretentious, and there’s no attempt to be clever or weird for the sake of it.
I enjoyed every minute.
Review by D
Mixel
Wget. I keep reading this as ‘widget’. And I rather wish that’s what it was called*. Because this track is a little thingie that makes you dance. I’m not sure if it’s the bubbling sound, the clattering beats or the big synth tones. But boy does it work. House music but not as we normally know it.
download: http://smarturl.it/EMK000
Blurb: With hundreds of projects down his studio, Bamdad Sabbagh aka Gary Stallman decided in 2016 to start his own label ‘Emkan Records’. After sorting all the tracks he’s been working on for the past years, he’s finally feeling ready to provide a chronological view of his work and mindset.
Among the multitude of emotions a man can come across, his debut EP ‘Sudo Service Start’ translates the uplifting feeling of a new project with touches of hope and optimism. The EP melts Gary’s influences growing up in a multicultural environment. His thirst for technology and knowledge drove him to the use of very detailed synths, pads and plucks combined with powerful kicks and basses.
‘Sudo Service Start’ might not be a record for all dance floors, even though Gary wouldn’t mind playing it in the middle of a DJ set to push the audience’s feelings further.
Website: www.garystallman.com
* turns out I should be reading it as ‘double u get’ and there is a thing called wget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wget
Sky pirate
Space is a well explored theme for dance music. But Nutrition (Eli Coppock from Australia) manages to give it something new by having more of a driving sense of purpose, rather than the usual endless floating in space. Rocket fuelled.
Here’s another classic artist, DJ Pierre, giving a remix to The Glitz’ Dirty Bride. I didn’t know that Pierre was his middle name. He should have been DJ Nathaniel. Be that as it may, here’s a classic Chicago house sound properly updated and coming over very of the moment. Big fat beats and bass, even a bit of guitar wheeling away. Big, big tune. Proper dirty.
Blurb: Last year The Glitz released their first album “No Drama“ on their Voltage Musique imprint. Now they offer of full remix package named “No Drama – The Remixes“, which will be provided in five parts. With Part 01 already released, Part 02 will be available next Monday (September, 26th) and will include two remixes of Rick Wade and one of DJ Pierre. You can give the latter a first listen here.
