Filed under: Ambient, Chilled, Chillwave, Electronica, Experimental | Tags: ambient, Chilled, dreamy, Electronica, mellow, music, Psychedelic, Soothing, Trip-Hop
Woot woot, the second Fuck the Radio party was a success, with acts Yosemite, Flash Forest and Sub Dapper killing it on-stage with a surprise set by exciting up-and comers Willowbeats.
The hangover has subsided and the blogging must go on. To bring us all down from our parties induced-highs I present you an ethereal track of purified dreaminess.
Patterns In Plastic already had a wonderfully fulfilling sound on their hands, but for me it was Sina. who brought the wonderful to marvellous with a divine remix of Sleepyhead.
I’ve been playing way too much Diablo 3 latley, so the entire list of of the adjectives I know at the moment is like looking up ‘evil’ in the Thesaurus. But if you were to look at the ‘antonym’ section of the thesaurus for ‘evil’, you’d probably find some neat descriptive words for this track…
…what a bizarre review…
Patterns In Plastic – Sleepyhead (Sina. remix)
Filed under: Beats, Chilled | Tags: beats, Chilled, future beat, music, Trip-Hop
Brooches‘ new release on the well-endeared Grappa Frisbee Records is tied together so very nicely both in it’s composition and beyond. The Album art is beautiful, the tracks are healthily unique and accessible and the EP’s title makes good reference to the 4 tracks all being about birds.
Swans is by far the shortest track coming in at just under the three-minute mark, I highly recommend you check out the rest of the EP if you want some great evolving musical texture and atmosphere. Crow is deep and exquisite, it’s unconventionality is not too bizarre as to alienate the listener, yet interesting enough to be intriguing. The whole EP sounds as organic as it’s subject matter.
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Electronica, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, bass, beats, Chilled, Deep, downtempo, Funky, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, Jazz, jazz bass, music, Trip-Hop
Desmond Cheese‘s beats are dope. Saw the Signs Pt. 2 is an instrumental cut off of a release he did with Mr Bill about a year ago, and it’s got all of the best ingredients: jazz, bass and essence of sex.
You could do just about anything with this music playing and it’d instantly give it a totally new groovy vibe. Seriously, you could be eating a taco or something, and some hottie could walk past you and think nothing of it. But if you were eating a taco with this music on the hottie would be dtf.
Enjoy 🙂
Desmond Cheese – Saw The Signs Pt 2
Filed under: Ambient, Beats, Chilled | Tags: ambient, beats, Chilled, downtempo, quiet, Soothing
It’s a Friday- which means I’m going to need some help surviving Saturday morning. While the largest container in the house filled with water is normally the way to go- I’ll supplement it with some enchanterDown.
That perfect blend of textural bliss and subtle rhythm, Knocking At My Door is a relaxing tune that doesn’t demand too much to please you. In-fact, I seem to have stumbled upon a goldmine with the Lion’s Memorial Pool collective, putting out some real fresh dreamwave- worth checking out.
He’s also a part of the delightful list of artists that Grappa Frisbee Records has released, and I can’t miss the opportunity to shoot love around in all directions. Check out his free release with them from back in February.
enchanterDown – Knocking At My Door
Filed under: Ambient, Chillwave, Electronica, Live Show, Psychadelic, Rock | Tags: album, Chilled, downtempo, Electronica, Guitar, independant, instrumental, Psychedelic, Rock, visual
The gap between producers and musicians is a precarious one, especially when it comes to playing live. Squarehead played at Fuck the Radio‘s opening night just over a week ago and put on an amazing show.
Performing songs live as a trio, complete with bass guitar and 50 different effects pedals- if you have the chance, Squarehead are not an act you want to miss if you love music (and, if you read this blog- I assume you do).
Raindrops is a beautifully composed track with a multitude of evolving bits and pieces that in the right atmosphere just fill the room and take you in for a musical candlelit journey over forests and deserts on the back of a magical flying flamingo. The rest of the free album shares a similar feeling, only perhaps with different flying magical animals. It’s something I can’t really describe without sounding like a maniac, so don’t just take my word for it- grab the album, and catch them live in Melbourne on the 21st (link below)… I’ll be there with my flamingo.
Download/Listen:
Filed under: Beats, Chilled, Electronica | Tags: beat, beats, Chilled, Hip Hop, instrumental hip hop, music, Netherlands, Trip-Hop
Netherlands-based Para Dice has put out a few chilled beatstrumentals over the months and they are worth checking out if you are interested in expanding your library or just having a few laid back tunes to have on around the house.
Filed under: Chilled, Hip-Hop, Jazz | Tags: Acid-Jazz, beats, Chilled, Jazz, jazzy, music, sample based
This suave jazz record makes me want to don a sleek suit and fedora combo, go out- order a scotch rocks and eye beautiful women across the bar while leaning on a billiards cue.
Yeah, it’s that specific.
The whole album is out for free here. You can also order physical CD and stream the album on the band-camp page linked below.
Filed under: BRILLIANT, Chilled, Chillwave, Electronica, Psychadelic | Tags: Brilliant, Chilled, Deep, Electronic, florida, Hypnotic, music, Soothing, Synth, Video, visual
Such talent can and has come into fruition with the discovery of the ‘bedroom producer’ age of music. Age, wealth and status is no longer an issue, as demonstrated by the BRILLIANTLY (that’s right everyone! TAGGING THIS ONE AS BRILLIANT) chilled sounds of XXYYXX, an under-age talent out of Orlando Florida who; just like a Japanese baby playing Through the Fire and Flames on ukulele will shatter your dreams of ever being a good guitarist; his magnificent music will shatter any dreams you had of ever being a super-talented producer (what an obscure reference, even for me).
About You was released late march earlier this year, but the video above came out a few days ago and is pretty fucking awesome itself. The rest of XXYYXX albums are also as consistently amazing and well worth checking out if you dig this lo-fi mellow electronica. Get on it so you can be all like “I liked him before he was cool” because seriously, people will cream themselves over this stuff.
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: Ambient, Mellow | Tags: ambient, Chilled, mellow, quiet, Selected Ambient Works, Soothing, winter air
When it comes to ambient music there’s only really 3 ways that you can go when naming a track… there’s the Autechre method of mashing the keyboard with your fist and calling your new masterpiece something like ‘Derfg’, there’s the somewhat pompous method of naming it something like ‘Tulips Dancing in the Winter Air’ and then there’s the method that David Bonas has chosen, simply assigning a number to the track which, when paired with a genre results in something like Ambient 2. While it may not be much in terms of creative titling, it gets the job done.
It may be an oldie, but it’s still an underground gem. Just needed this to cure my morning-after-a-big-night feeling.
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/davidbonas/
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>
Filed under: Chilled, Dance, Electronica, Upbeat | Tags: Chilled, Dance, Deep, Electronic, san fransico bay
The San Fransico bay area is a place teeming with creative aural gems, somewhere I’d really love to visit again to go for a good musical dig. A shining example is this fresh tune from B Flat titled With You released as a single by Soulection.
Danceable and upbeat, yet still maintaining an atmospheric vibe- With You is described by B Flat as being a song about a girl.
It was somewhat of a gloomy day at the beach, but the sun was still out.
I think that quote encapsulates the tone of the track quite well. While certainly not deep and moody, With You avoids sounding bright and twee- check out the free download bellow:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/bflatinum
More by B Flat:
Tal Ronen‘s expressive guitar solo is accompanied by a smooth synth pad and deep kick drum to create the looming chillout piece Deep Thinking. When the drum kit rhythm kicks in, you are treated to 30 seconds of classical rock goodness- until it dissipates back into nothing. A great piece of relaxing work that yearns to last a little longer.
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/tal-ronen
Filed under: Chillwave, Electronica, Vocals | Tags: Chilled, chillwave, downtempo, oliver tank, relaxing, Soothing, vocals, wintercoats
Here we are, the first post of 2012- going to Wintercoats from Melbourne, Australia.
Someone to Share My Life With is a cover of sorts- the original being the folky tune by Television Personalities of the same name; but Wintercoats has transformed the clanky electric guitar into the type of beautiful downtempo/chillwave that Aussies seem to be quite talented in producing. Fans of Oliver Tank will enjoy the sounds that Wintercoats have to offer- and on that note Wintercoats is Oliver‘s support act in Melbourne on the 20th for his EP launch party.
Give the track a download and be sure to check out their bandcamp page for several more tracks and an EP all being given away for free! 😀
Download:
Wintercoats – Someone to Share My Life With
Bandcamp:
http://wintercoats.bandcamp.com
Filed under: Ambient, Chilled, Electronica | Tags: ambient, Chilled, Electronica, independant, Soothing
Apologies for the slack posting, I was recovering from my Dubcage launch hangover. As a shameless publicity stunt, every 10 likes we got at http://www.facebook.com/dubcage resulted in us doing a shot of liquor on air… and let me tell you, 22 shots of bourbon was never meant to be consumed by any human. You can catch Dubcage at 10pm Melbourne time Sunday nights at dubcage.com or on 88.3 Southern FM.
Speaking of Melbourne, our artist Thrupence also hails from this part of the world. I’m really digging his soothing electronica, in-between chillwave and ambient with a romantic twist, Thrupence writes nothing on his Soundcloud page description other than I try to make beautiful things – an accomplishment well earned I think. I’d love to post all of his music, but I’ll give you his latest track and leave the link to his Soundcloud for you to explore.
Download:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/thrupence/tracks
PS: Check out another Fuck the Radio Radio Show coming soon…
