Teebs' Ardour LP came out today. Its fucking awesome, if you haven't looked into it yet. For the love of beat music, buy it here. Its rich, melodious and catchy. You can tell it was produced by a musician and not a pad-mashing, synth-tweaking music box... pure excellence. I am SO fucking excited to see him play here in Boston. There are some preview tracks below. Buy it here.
gah. so freakin good. brilliant animation, written to a psychadelic groove...put this on your "watch-while-stoned" queues. (though it's still great sober)
BONUS: two bangers by Mux Mool and Devonwho respectively, found over at 92bpm (GREAT BLOG, FOLLOW IT). Mind-blowingly deep kick drums on the Mux Mool joint, thick dense bass on the Devonwho. Whip out your headphones/subwoofer and prepare to have your soul massaged.
BONUS part deux: another banger, courtesy of XLR8R (what a boss website), this one a remix of Shigeto (who I will post on SOON) by Mike Slott. Who is the fuckin tits. Want proof? Check out his INCREDIBLE remix of Flying Lotus:
Mr. Oizo, aka the muse of those gentlemen over at Apes With Barrels, has mastered the aesthetic of weird-ass electronica. And yet he never misses a chance to bring the funk, either: chopped up slap bass, computerized vocal samples, and weird little pitch-bent clavichord breaks make this track an awesome little oddity.
Baths posted this track on his facebook page; it's by a friend of his. Really neat indie/beat music stuff, a lot of the sounds in there remind me of Baths' stuff, actually, specifically "Maximalist," but the expert vocal chopping and drum work reminds me a lot more like Duke Dumont's remix of Lily Allen...this is a really cool track, it's well-structured and awesome. And most importantly, it makes me want to hear more from this guy. Indie/electronica/beat track.
I know next to nothing about Themselves, but as you're probably aware by now, it wouldn't be our blog if we didn't post a Baths track...so here you go. No shame. Strange vocals, but not in a bad way at all. Great track.
Bomb Zombies (best name ever!!) is the EPIC duo of Low End Theory residents Nobody and Nocando: Nobody on the sick beat and pitched-up hook, Nocando killing it on the mic as usual. Their Sincerely Yours EP is out November 9 on Hellfyre Club, Nocando's label. And I cannot freakin' wait. "Fuck what you heard, this is what you need to hear."
matthewdavid, a dublab labrat and founder of the almighty Leaving Records, is the shit. He's certainly at home with the L.A. beatheads, but he has a penchant for fucking with field recordings and tape manipulation as well, so his stuff has this incredible experimental/atmospheric vibe. I love it.
Now for a certified JAM: Samiyam remixing Shigeto. Hell fuck yeah. Prepare to drown in heavenly sawtooth synth chords before the kick knocks yr skull in. Awesome percussion, bass, beat...Samiyam is a boss.
I know very little about the UK's Mount Kimbie, except that supposedly they put on one hell of a live show. And this track certainly supports that claim: it's super mellow, intricate, and performed live. I think they're generally described as "post-dubstep" (genre pigeonholing ftw), and you can hear why that is in the beat, but this is pretty damn far from dubstep, sharing more in common with deep house and UK funky in my opinion. But descriptions aside, give it a listen, it's a neat track.
BONUS [zip only]: The Fear (Duke Dumont Remix) - Lily Allen (<-- youtube link). Beautiful. One of my favorite songs ever, gorgeous synths and brilliant vocal chopping. Worth getting the whole batch for, we promise...
it's been a while since we have done one of these. probably since mid-september... anyway, here is a batch of music i have collected and curated over the past month or so that departs from our usual DnB, Dubstep, Beat music and electro indie side. a bit. There's a zip at the end, so if you feel inundated by links, head for the zippp.
Besides their AWESOME name, Timber Timbre have a very cool, sparse, bluesy-folksy-lets-go-roll-in-a-meadow type feel. This is from their self titled album, and is one of my friend's favorites.
King Tut. I don't really know much about them except that they have since broken up. However, their music is awesome. Its like Grizzly Bear plus wayy more post-production processing and more agressive, noodly lines. These two tracks are from their album Chopping Wood and Carrying Water but are not in any way the only types of sounds you will find on that album. Buy it somewhere if you can.
THIS reminds me more of our friend Baths than it does of bluegrass. These guys know how to do everything - not only can they produce intricate arcs of banjo plucking, they can chop it up and add samples and stuff and make what you find here. again, LOVE.
Train Song - Feist and Ben Gibbard This is mostly here because i know El Langosta has a Ben Gibbard fetish and that he would really like this track. I really like it too. Its exactly what you would expect from these two. that is, simple, pretty and soulful. Plus i have a thing for male-female duets (nevermind that there are backup singers)
Honk Town - The Toughcats I have posted (in a limited way) on these guys before. Anyway, i have a special place in my heart for the toughcats - they hail from an island in maine near where i summer, and they have been becoming more and more and more popular in recent months/years. That just makes me excited. I love these guys, essentially bluegrass folk-rock-ness, but awesome. think more improvised barn dance hall than big bluegrass festival in tennessee.
Iron Horse - These are two epic bluegrass covers (the hell with me and bluegrass?! i don't know) of popular indie/rock songs - the ubiquitous Float On (Modest Mouse) and New Slang (The Shins). I love these SO MUCH. Get them both.
He's been going through some personal drama of late, nothing too serious, but enough to stress the guy out, which is not what he needs. I mean, the man is working simultaneously on two degrees, as well as writing for this blog, going to concerts...you know, actually having a life.
So I figured I would make him a mix, seeing as it's been awhile since I've done one for the blog anyways.
And besides, what else soothes the soul like hard-hitting Electro House bass?
Hardly a perfect mix: a couple fuckups and some embarassingly basic transitions, but undeniably amazing tracks. I'm proud of the selection, especially in the first half. It's fun when you find 4 songs in relatively the same key that all sound AWESOME.
[obligatory Apes With Barrels plug. I get most of this stuff from them]
Reeeeally dark shit... metal vocals and a dubstep beat collide violently with the catchy hooks and top-notch noise-pop production we've come to expect from Gobble Gobble. Cecil Frena screams dark, visceral lyrics at you through layers of delay, while 8-bit synths cascade like waterfalls over an understated wobble bass and a crisp 2-step beat, until just when you feel starved for melody he gurgles a wordless hook before crooning in his signature distorted tenor: "move til' you can't feel..."
But to be perfectly honest, this band's music pretty much defies description. So just give it a listen, and be open-minded. Because I will admit that this shit is undeniably weird...
hi there. so its tuesday, which means... absolutely nothing related to the mission of this blog. Anyway, this is a two part post; the first three tracks are all Tim Berg, or Tim Berg remixes (note that Avicii = Tim Berg...). All really awesome prog house or prog electro house or prog-whatever.
The last four tracks are some fresh beats for you.. look for descriptions. thus the iceberg with speakers embedded ... i couldn't resist.
With that many northern european names remixing this track, it better be good. and it is. The original version of Alcoholic came out with a TON of remixes, and i found this to be the best one. Heavy prog house banger... bedroom rave status!
This is from a new beat tape by Bahwee - definitely some interesting stuff. It was posted at WEDIDIT (link here) Its really chill and very hip-hoppy - but I definitely can't not move when i play this track. soo sweet. The whole EP is $7, but check out the link i gave you and the comments below it....
This is from the Teebs/Daedelus album from the Los Angeles series. Its only available if you buy it from them on tour (which i plan to do when the come to Boston 11/3 with the Gaslamp Killer). Anyway, i found this on XLR8R. Cool shit.
I found this one by combing his SoundCloud - i suggest you do the same. Theres lots of good stuff that artists post on their soundclouds (especially beat producers) that you can just straight up download. This is one of those tracks. It's a treat - syncopated, heavy beats with 0. rapping on top of em. Download this.
Oh yes, ladies and gents. The time has come. AshTreJinkins, a freaking fantastic 17-year-old beat music producer (previous posts), has released a split beattape, The$tomp, with like-minded producer ¢hit$, who I'm fairly unfamiliar with. But he's also great, the two fit really well with each other, vibe-wise. These guys are NOT amatuers; they're fantastic producers, the both of them, so let me tell you, it is a freakin DEAL that you can go grab this for FREE at their bandcamp. Although you are allowed to pay for the album if you'd like, and I highly suggest you do. These beats are for sure worth some cash. You can listen here if you'd like, however:
REVIEW PORTION: The tape opens with ¢hit$ on a beat called "Sawdoff," which has some neat, crisp claps and clicks riding over what seems to be a bitcrushed kick drum, all bathed in a gorgeous synth/string sample. Then AshTreJinkins takes the reins on "Gremlins," which makes brilliant use of fat, ominous synths and what sounds like, well, a bunch of gremlins snarling and growling. Really cool beat. Then ¢hit$ is back, holding down the softer, more contemplative end of the tape with "Travaja," before AshTreJinkins comes back in (you can see the pattern here) with the brutally skull-crushing "CaveDwellers," which gains extra points for sampling Monty Python. But I absolutely love the super dark and atmospheric vibe he's got going on his half of the tape. Really top-notch production, you've heard me rant about this kid plenty before. The rest of the tape sees ¢hit$ getting down with some really cool synths on "19," AshTreJinkins moving from a percussion-oriented vibe to yet another incredible beat (all saturated in GORGEOUS ambient synths) on "Symbolic Rainforest," and the two remixing one of each others' tracks. They essentially take the same approach on both ("aSymbolicRecreate" and "Travaja (Jinkins'SourDownfallRmx)," each taking the ambient aspects of the other's original and adding a heavier beat. And both work exceedingly well.
Point is, this is an awesome tape. You should go get it, as a reward to yourself for sitting through my ramblings and ravings.
Lobster out.
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BUT WAIT! Another reason why you need to dig this AshTreJinkins kid: he's coming out with ANOTHER tape as well!! How's that for productivity?! So expect a post on that soon...possibly accompanied by Crustacean Cognition's first interview?! Keep your eyes on this page............
I like how our last two posts have literally followed the same basic format: "oh look, here's some new shit by artists we fucking LOVE and post on waaaaay too much." .....but in all seriousness, this is a song called "Ocean Death," performed live by Baths.
He's at the tail end of a big-ass tour of the US with El Ten Eleven (patkins reviewed such a show here), and this is a brand-new jam, possibly from his next album. He's been saying that it's gonna follow a much darker vibe, which I am super down for if it sounds as awesome as this. You can read an interview with him here, but here's a particular excerpt I liked:
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"I have been thinking about 13th Century Europe where the idea of the devil and going to hell were actual truths to these people. It was not the way that that religion is now where you can take it or leave it. In that time period it was an absolute brutal truth, like if I do this certain wrong thing I am going to be condemned to hell forever. The zeitgeist of that time, that crazy fear is really interesting to me, that people lived every day of their lives with something which to me is really terrifying, I think that is a really interesting subject and vibe for music. I want to make music as fierce or creepy as that idea as well as incorporating a lot of ideas of death. But not in the horror of it, like in American horror, but in the more contemplative Japanese outlook on it. It can be a beautiful thing, even the process of it…"
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So basically he's saying we should be really fuckin pumped.
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