Amable‘s Spooky Bounce is indeed spooky… and bouncy! (the epitome of music journalism right there).
The spookiness is in the subtleties, a sampled piano loop- complete with crisp vinyl pops and crackles- oh the joys of trip-hop!
Meanwhile a grimey saw bassline teams up with an exceptionally neat percussive drum-part to keep the track moving along. It’s as if a ghetto gang of werewolves and zombies (complete with low-riding pants and excessive amounts of dollar-sign gold necklaces) are strutting their stuff down the graveyard main-street at midnight, boom-box on shoulder, blasting this spooky trip-hop tune.
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Filed under: Electronica | Tags: bass, bass sound, beats, Electronica, glitch, glitch-hop, Trip-Hop
yahnLOOKEpicard‘s name is as bizarre as the slimey bass-sound used in Bit Breaths. The only difference is that while I stress I’ve gotten the name wrong, we can all rest assured that the bass is just right.
Electronica when styled up in just the right way can sound almost ‘organic’, and Bit Breaths is as teeming with life as the swampy marsh I picture when I listen to it (yes it’s one of those posts where I say weird shit that makes no sense).
At the end of the day, yahnLOOKEpicard is absolutely on-point in crafting neat glitch-hop beats, and Bit Breaths is a perfect example of his aptitude.
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http://soundcloud.com/yahn-yahn-looke-picard
Spektrums is here to pleasure your eardrums. I highly recommend fans of Trip-Hop check out his beats. I’m hooked.
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http://soundcloud.com/spektrums/
Filed under: Chilled, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Akai MPC2000, beats, dj shadow, Hip Hop, mellow, sample based, Trip-Hop
French Trip-Hopper Somepling released his free EP Properly Packed for free on Wednesday and I’ve finally gotten the chance to give it a proper listen through.
Fans of DJ Shadow and other alternative hip-hop beats producers will appreciate the overall soul of Somepling‘s work; the magic that can be created on an Akai MPC2000 is unreal when put into the correct music junkie’s hands. It is no wonder Somepling has garnered support from so many artists and labels.
Properly Packed is a collection of tracks that have been given away for free on his Soundcloud here and there, packed into one neat package. You can give the full album a download off of his Bandcamp page, where the option is to donate a measly $5 or just grab it for free off the provided mediafire link.
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Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/somepling
Filed under: Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, beats, dream sequence, independant, Jazz
Mononome is a cut-and-paste style beatstrumental composer from Greece. His Dream Sequence EP was released on the first of December last year and I’ve been patiently waiting for a chance to post it since.
The track Enthusiasms (Couldn’t Ask For Anything More) is funky while at the same time mellow. A neat acid-jazz track to listen to when you go to one of those groovy bars where none of the chairs match and the graffiti on the bathroom wall is both witty and legible (although that is very specific… you can listen to the track pretty much anywhere). The whole EP is available for free off of his bandcamp page, check it out.
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Mononome – Enthusiasms (Couldn’t Ask For Anything More)
Bandcamp:
http://mononome.bandcamp.com/album/dream-sequence-ep
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/mononome
Filed under: Electronica | Tags: beats, Happy, sample based, Upbeat, vocals
Handbook‘s music is no stranger to people’s ears, at 10,000+ Soundcloud fans, he could easily sit back on his throne of musical accomplishment and feed bullshit to the masses.
But there’s a nostalgic sincerity present throughout Handbook‘s music that brings groups like The Avalanches and perhaps, Bibio to mind. I think ‘sweet’ would be the right way of describing it… not candy sweet or pleased frat boy “sweeeet”; but bringing flowers home to your wife ‘sweet’.
No, despite having followers in the 5 digits, Handbook crafts his music with love. And the wonderful 23 is a good example 🙂
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http://soundcloud.com/handbook
