Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Mellow | Tags: Acid-Jazz, daisuke, downtempo, future beat, Hip Hop, japan, Trip-Hop
Daisuke Tanabe (who also goes by simply ‘dt‘) put this Acid Jazzy number out about a month ago on Soundcloud. It took a-while to settle in, but by the second listen I was absolutely hooked. The clever subtleties excel in Ate, creating a dynamic track comprised of tightly meshed vocal snippets and percussive glitches. Amazing creative work;
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/daisuketanabe
Filed under: Beats, Electronica, Experimental | Tags: acemo, beats, Electronica, glitch, Hip Hop, Synth, Trip-Hop
AceMo‘s Cuter EP is free off of his bandcamp and totally worth a listen.
There’s a swell hint of jazz mixed in with lo-fi electronica synths- it almost fits a verse-chorus style structure, as if the instruments are speaking amongst themselves. I haven’t heard anything like this is a-while.
The rest of the EP is equally as good, and he’s generous enough to be throwing it at you for free! So get on it!
Bandcamp:
Filed under: Beats, Electronica, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, Electronic, Electronica, future beat, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, Upbeat
Aussie Perth-based producer Ta-Ku made an appearance on the Anesthetic mixtape with On the Floor taken from his brill EP Scraps Vol. 2; and more officially- Huh What & Where‘s recent free compilation HW&W Vol. 1.
Tight stuff, great to come back to music like this after a week or two detached from the earth. Pokyo is a neat electronica piece grounded firmly in hip-hop… Expect to see a-lot more of this guy’s name popping up all around; he’s already gained some pretty substantial recognition and support, but we can only sit idly by and wait for him to drop a proper album sometime.
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/takugotbeats
Rest of HW&W comp:
http://huhwhatwhere.bandcamp.com/album/hw-w-vol-1
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Hip-Hop, MIXTAPE, News | Tags: anesthetic, beat, bee ampersand, fuck the radio, future beat, goodness, Hip Hop, independant, instrumental, instrumental hip hop, Mixtape, Trip-Hop
Here’s the NINTH FUCK THE RADIO mixtape, titled Anesthetic (although I promise it wont put you to sleep). Featuring 15 great tracks from artists all over the world; there’s a focus on future-beat/trip-hop this time, which will keep you head-bopping along in the car/train/bedroom/wherever you listen to music.
It’s free, so you really can’t lose. Get on it.
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Filed under: Beats, Electronica | Tags: beats, Electronic, electronic music, Electronica, future beat, San Diego, shlomo, Synth
Great free release from Insightful, The San Diego-based producer signed to Soulection.
The 17-track album is grounded in future-beat, trip-hop and the other genres us radio fuckers love. However there’s a distinct twist in the sounds used which puts Feather’d Son out of the increasingly ubiquitous (yet still loved) realm of ‘triggering samples on an MPC’ and into ‘electronic music’. She Bad for instance, is less kick-snare driven than it is pulled along by the melodic synth- in a genre where rhythmic percussion dominates, it’s an interesting (and dare I say unconventional) take on the genre’s nuances.
Shlomo lovers will dig the creativity and electronic-fusion within the music, as will the masses of Flying Lotus and Nosaj Thing followers out there. Make sure you check out the full album (it’s free good music!)
Feather’d Son:
http://insightful.bandcamp.com/album/featherd-son
Filed under: Beats, Experimental, Hip-Hop, Interview, News | Tags: amable, experimental, florida, free beats, Hip Hop, independant, instrumental hip hop, interview, orlando
I’ve spoken about the wonderfully different-yet-accessible music of Florida-based beatmaker Amable before on Fuck the Radio; most recently supporting his latest free EP release, The Bundle which is filled with some great experimental beats.
It’s with great pleasure that I interviewed the man behind the music in a special weekend post:
What was the idea behind the bundle? Was there any particular idea/concept behind it?
The Bundle is a collection of older songs that I did for various Strange Gibberish downloads. I wanted to shed light on some older songs and give something to the people who have been supporting my music.
A-lot of it is sample-based, are there any bizarre sample sources that you’ve snuck in?
That’s a good question. I would say the most ‘bizarre’ sample source used was a recording I made while under a highway overpass. I recorded the sounds of the cars passing overhead which created a sound similar to crashing waves with a reverb effect. Those sounds ended up being used for the intro to Bajo Del Calle.
Tell us about the artwork…
The artwork was created by Bradly Head, he is the proprietor of Gewih Ritual Documents. He’s done great artwork for the label so I was psyched when he offered to do the cover. Bradly made a joke about making a reference to Al Bundy from Married with Children so we ran with it. The Polk High Jersey and the Dodge Dart are obvious Al Bundy references. The cassette head of the character makes reference to my previous cassette release as well as my upcoming release. Also, the image on the stamp is of me as a child. Altogether, I thought the throwback concept was appropriate since the songs on The Bundle are older releases.
What music do you listen to when you are alone and not producing? Are there any particular songs/artists/records you have on repeat at the moment?
I’m always looking for samples so I listen to all kinds of music. At the moment, my favorite album is Synesthesia by K-the-ii?? on Fake Four Inc. It’s his first official instrumental album and it’s the most unique album I’ve heard to come out of the L.A. beat scene. His CD hasn’t left my player for three weeks now.
Tell us a little about your musical history? What did you grow-up listening to and how did you get to where you are now?
The first piece of music that I owned was an old school hip hop compilation cassette tape when I was about 8 or 9 years old. It had UTFO, Fat Boys, Whodini, Roxanne and a bunch of others. Later that year a friend gave me a copy of RUN DMC‘s Raising Hell, so that was my catalyst for collecting music. I grew up listening to everything, classic rock, metal, alternative, r&b, hip hop, jazz, soul, funk, whatever. Eventually I really got into underground hip hop and the whole beat movement going on with Ninja Tune, Mowax, Hefty and OM in the early years. This lead me into djing and digging for records which lead me into making beats.
Do you have any guilty pleasures/things people would be surprised you have in your music collection?
Sea and Cake, Pelican, Donovan.
What is your alcoholic beverage of choice?
That’s a tie between a Crown and ginger ale or a vodka with blood red orange juice.
Most overrated thing in music today?
Egos.
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, düsseldorf germany, germany, Hip Hop, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental piece, sample based
Düsseldorf, Germany- Lord Leonator uses his experience as a drummer to create rhythmically tight Hip-Hop instrumentals. Nicely composed and reminicent of DJ Shadow style beats, Ja! is a cute little instrumental piece to bob your head along to.
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/ventoleo/
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: album musique, beats, Electronic, Electronica, french, french hip hop, Hip Hop, music, sample based, Trip-Hop
Much like the nouvelle vague du rock français scene that saw the rise of garage-rock bands like Naast and my beloved Plasticines in France, there’s a new breed of underground beat-makers in France seeing the creation of a new-wave of electronica and hip-hop.
Sorg is one such artist at the forefront of the emerging scene, joining artists such as Miqi O, Zerolex and Don Da None in bringing a blend of sample-based, electronic and acoustic instrumentation to trip-hop for a sound which, sounds just as uniquely French as French house does.
Check out Zerolex‘s new album which features both Sorg and Don Da None: http://zerolex.bandcamp.com/album/musique-r-apprivois-e
And if you like what you hear, check out Sorg‘s Preface EP, It’s an underground gem: http://sorg.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Beats, BRILLIANT, Chilled, Electronica | Tags: aussie, Australian, beats, Brilliant, Chilled, Electronica, Hip Hop, independant, music, oliver tank, Trip-Hop
I’ve been in bed all day coughing up my lungs surrounded by used tissues and bowls of hot soup. But Flash Forest to the rescue! One of my favourite local producers by far, I’ve been secretly saving his music for a little while now (although you may have noticed his appearence in the Fuck Melody Mixtape), waiting for the perfect moment to spring it on you.
One Night is that perfect moment, uploaded to Soundcloud just 10 minutes ago (at the time of writing), this is chilled-out trip-hop at it’s best. Fans of Thrupence and Polographia (both are also talented Aussie producers) will dig, and Oliver Tank fans might want to take a squizz at Flash Forest‘s remix of What Have I Become, which brings the mellow romantic sounds of Tank into a more upbeat (even danceable) arena.
But enough floundering around dropping the names of other Aussies, Flash Forest has truly hit a league of his own with One Night, which is why he’s the second artist this year to be inducted in to my Fuck the Radio Brilliance hall of fame. If you are a fan of good music, I insist you check all his stuff out (most of it he is giving away for free!):
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/flashforest
Bandcamp:
http://flashforest.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beat, berlin, free beats, germany, Hip Hop, Kyson, music, organic, sample based, texture, Trip-Hop, visual
Out of Berlin, Kyson‘s majestic productions contain a great deal of warmth and comfort. Forest Footsteps is one of several free beats he’s giving away on Soundcloud which have a refreshingly different, yet easily accessible tone and texture to the other sounds I’ve been listening to lately…
Have a listen for yourself:
Soundcloud:
Filed under: Beats, Electronica, Experimental, Upbeat | Tags: album, beats, Dance, Electronic, Electronica, ep, experimental, Flying Lotus, Funky, future beat, glitch, Upbeat
I bought Yellow Tangerine‘s First Juice EP a little over a week ago and burnt it to CD so I could listen to it in the car. Now I’m worried the CD will disintegrate inside my player because I’m playing it to oblivion.
Throwing elements of electronica, future beat, trip-hop and even a hint of funky house into a blender, the resulting smoothie of sound is something to be appreciated by fans of FlyLo and Bibio.
The EP’s standout track for me would have to be Paul Goes To Paris, which combines funky dance elements with some quasi-experimental glitching effects to produce a real head-bopper. Douu-Eeen sounds to me like something between The Avalanches and Daedelus. There’s a free download up of what I assume is the demo version of the track, which contains more letters in the title than the album version:
Yellow Tangerine – douuu-eeeeeeeeen
And the entire 6-track EP is available on bandcamp for roughly the cost of a large cheesburger meal at McDonalds:
http://yellowtangerine.bandcamp.com/album/first-juice-ep
If Soundcloud is your thang you can also check him out here:
http://soundcloud.com/yellow-tangerine
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, dilla, Electronic, Flying Lotus, free, high life, highlife, Hip Hop, music, sample based, Trip-Hop, vanilla
I really love Vanilla, not only the ice-cream but the artist. With a stylistic nod towards artists like Dilla and even Flying Lotus, Vanilla has produced an amazing trip-hop album (approaching it’s second birthday) called Chrometrails available for free off of his bandcamp page.
Proxy rolls along with smoothly flowing sample re-triggering and a beat you can bop your full body along to. It’s broken up with a neat chorus-like break section to give the track a more conventional structure and to avoid ubiquitous repetition in it’s composition.
There’s also two more recent free albums in addition to chrometrails, one of them, a 27-track long monster titled Highlife is also full of gems, however he’s been quiet in the past year or so. I very highly encourage you to check him out…
Bandcamp:
http://vanillabeats.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Beats, Concrete, Electronica | Tags: beats, Concrete, edgard varèse, Electronic, electronic funk, french, frnech hip hop, frog legs, Funky, hip hop instrumentals, instrumental ep, instrumental hip hop, instrumental song, Jazz, sample based
France is the home to most of my favourite artists… Daft Punk, Plasticines, Edgard Varèse… the list goes on. I don’t know what they put in the frog legs over there, but something makes them good at producing groovy music.
Take 7even Sun for example, who has put out two completely free and awesome electronic-jazz albums that are scrumptiously funky. With a third on it’s way on the 28th of March, get into him now so you can say you dug him since his older albums.
New New Jack is from the first EP titled Abstractly Concrete which was released November last year. Filled with a great mix of sample-based jazz and electronic funk, 7even shows that he possesses more musical ability than simply stringing a few sampled loops together without any creative attention to detail.
His second free instrumental EP titled Concretely Abstract was released late Feburary 2012, and builds upon the same production styles and sounds used in Abstractly Concrete (no surprise there, due to the similarity of the titles, think of it as all the same project). The third EP will be titled Abscrete and is due out on Number 24 Records later this month.
Bandcamp:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/7even-sun
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Jazz | Tags: beat, future beat, Hip Hop, Jazz, jazzy, mellow, sample based, Trip-Hop
A delightful trip-hop/future-beat style track from Denmark’s JONGPADAWAN. I’m not sure I’ve ever posted a Danish artist on FTR before, however if Afternoon Croissant is any indication of the quality of music coming from the Danes- I’ll be looking there more often.
A nice mix of smooth jazz and deep percussive elements, heavy compression is any trip-hopper’s friend, and JONGPADAWAN has executed his production techniques very well. The track avoids being a tedious sample loop by gradually switching up the beats, switching in and out different instrumental elements (a smooth tenor sax dips in and out as the beat goes on) and a suave French vocal sample keeps things sexy.
A debut EP is on the horizon with Greased Up Records announcing their first public EP release will be with him- release date TBA. Until then, enjoy Afternoon Croissant.
JONGPADAWAN – Afternoon Croissant
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/jongpadawan
Filed under: Ambient, Beats, Chilled, Chillwave, Experimental, Mellow | Tags: Chilled, chillout, downtempo, Electronica, experimental, mellow, post-trip-hop, Soothing, Trip-Hop
Everyone has bizzare rituals; whether it be conditioning thier hair before they shampoo, purposely wearing socks inside out- or something a little more involved, like sitting in the same seat at the same bar every Friday after work and ordering the same drink. We all have little things that we like to keep to ourselves- it’s what keeps us sane. For me, every Sunday night after I get home from the radio station, I pour myself a small glass of red wine, turn the TV onto the ‘classic movies’ channel (where they play all the old black-and white films), mute it, and listen to music.
Kwala‘s album Shabang may be the perfect soundtrack for these moments. As wine slowly stains my lips and the suave-looking detective in the movie lights up his cigar, Kwala‘s expansive pads and smooth down-tempo rhythms fill the full aural spectrum. Not demanding enough to be abrasive or distracting, yet far from being boring or repetitive- the best way to describe Kwala‘s music would be something like ‘post-trip-hop’. Excuse my ‘typical-music-blogger-making-up-meaningless-genres-to-avoid-actually-describing-the-music’, but being superfluous when it comes to these things does nothing justice. Plus I want to enjoy my wine.
The full album is available here for a pick-your-price download and it comes with my highest recommendation:
<edit: It seems to have disappeared, but there is still some great stuff up there>
