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, 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: Experimental | Tags: album, amable, avant-garde, beats, experimental, free, free beats, post-trip-hop, Psychedelic, sample based, Trip-Hop, visual
As promised, Amable‘s The Bundle was released today and it’s a neat collection of various experimental trip-hop tunes produced by the Florida-based beat-maker that have appeared all over the net these past few years.
A dynamic compilation of rarities, we’ll be catching up with Amable later in the week for a chat, so make sure you subscribe to the blog and check out the album, released by the quasi-avant-garde label Geweih Ritual Documents here:
http://geweihritual.bandcamp.com/album/the-bundle
You can also check out Amable‘s Spooky Bounce here.
And his soundcloud here.
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, 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, 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>
There’s no simpler way of putting it: Midnight Smack‘s Tight Schedule is dope.
Sampled obscurities combined with a deep, hip-hop beat is the infallible recipe for success with trip-hop- another example of a track so good that it doesn’t need lyrics to make it interesting.
Midnight Smack – Tight Schedule
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/midnightsmack/
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, future beat, offbeat, sample based, Trip-Hop
Normally I don’t post on weekends, but I thought I’d share this…
hi. i make beats. i love sega. nintendos dope too, but i grew up on sega. batman is my favourite superhero. i dont quantize my drums. my kungfu movie collection is over 400 films easy. and i rep Gill Breathing. that about sums me up.
one love,
-eQ
Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop, Vocals | Tags: beats, debut ep, french, french hip hop, german metal, Hip Hop, hip hop artist, hip hop instrumentals, independant, instrumental hip hop, Rammstein, sample based, Trip-Hop
When I was about 13 years old I loved the german industrial-metal band Rammstein. I loved them so much it inspired me to learn German… until I found out I was head-banging along to graphic lyrics about gay sex. This isn’t something I’m against; It was just a little shocking for my 13-year old self. Then I looked at the cover of my favourite album- an image of the band shirtless and oiled up, standing in-front of a giant flower… it was never the same.
I did see Rammstein live many years later and they were amazing… but something about the muscular front-man in make-up, adorned with feathers and tight black leather just haunted the back of my mind… Mann gegen Mann
Meine Haut gehört den Herren…
Now the reason I bring up Rammstein is not because of their deceptively homosexual lyrics, but because I haven’t ever loved a foreign band so much as to want to learn the intricacies of their language since I was 13 and head-banging away to German metal…
This time in French; NÉBULEUSE(s) is an album title I’m not even going to BEGIN to try and pronounce. My French is a bit rusty these days (read: ‘non-existent’), but that didn’t stop me from getting into talented French hip-hop artist Don Da None, who self-released his debut EP Nébuleuse(s) for only €3 in November last year.
Don Da None‘s lyrics flow so well that it makes me wish I could speak French. There’s a sophistication in the way he speaks which compliments the amazing self-produced beats very well. Borrowing samples from rare soul and jazz records, Nébuleuse(s) would work as an instrumental album in it’s own right… In-fact, I have an instrumental copy of Le Bas Coté to give you!
Don Da None – Le Bas Coté (Instrumental)
You should also check out the rest of his debut EP here:
http://dondanone.bandcamp.com/
Filed under: Beats | Tags: beats, Flying Lotus, french, future beat, Hip Hop, sample based, Trip-Hop
The underground trip-hop community may seem like a never-ending sea of sampled beats and bedroom producers. And for the most part, it is! Albeit a glorious one full of unique rhythmic gems. Every now and then, in this new-age of internet distribution, a funny thing happens…
I had just purchased Zerolex‘s 2.z EP (off of bandcamp for only €1!) when no more than an hour later I got an email from Zerolex himself pointing me towards his music. I clicked the links he provided, stared at the album art for awhile thinking “Wow, this looks very familiar” until I realised he was currently playing in my iTunes.
All Over Again is the first of two tracks off of his more recent release on Combien Millie Records, which is available for free download. There’s some great future beat style trip-hop elements present throughout his tracks, and some really diverse and interesting sounds being used as well- check it out!
Download:
Bandcamp:
Soundcloud:
PS:
If you are an artist/label/promoter/enthusiastic fan feel free to drop me a line any time at fucktheradio@dubcage.com I’d love to hear from you!
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Filed under: Beats, Hip-Hop | Tags: beats, Hip Hop, independant, instrumental hip hop, sample based, Trip-Hop
Mattron‘s personal tape is the best dollar I’ve spent all year.
Wonderfully crafted trip-hop in its abundance, Pants Morgan Money Tape is set to make my iTunes’ ‘top played’ list any-time now… Warm and relaxing, the 14 tracks all sit perfectly in the middle section of the imaginary ‘musically stimulating’ and ‘easy listening’ Venn diagram.
Fans of hip-hop will appreciate the meticulous effort put into crafting these beats out of various samples, ranging from odd-ball synth sounds to contemporary jazz snippets- Mattron makes creating great instrumental hip-hop seem Ea$y.
Download:
Bandcamp (rest of tape only $1):
Soundcloud:
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.
Download:
Soundcloud:
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.
Download:
Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/yahn-yahn-looke-picard
