Ukraine producer The Cancel has recently released a beautiful album full of abstract jazzy instrumentals. Check out his bandcamp and make sure to support this awesome collection of sounds. Much love to The Cancel for producing great music! Cheers to good music!
Tracklist : 1. Intro from space 01:45 2. Ghost 01:42 3. NY in night 02:48 4. Lullaby from the moon 03:10 5. End of the ride 02:01 6. Pulse 02:58 7. Summer tape 01:53 8. Interlude 01:02 9. Frees 02:21 10. Low emotion 02:46 11. Backstage 03:05 12. Street art (bonus track) 02:23 13. 4U (bonus track) 02:22 14. Space outro 01:33
Décidément, l'hexagone est un vivier sans fin de compositeurs/beatmakers de talents, et quand on passe avoir fait le tour de la question, on trouve toujours une nouvelle tête ou bien un vétéran resté dans l'ombre prêt à fesser la concurrence. C'est le cas de NabH24. Derrière un nom digne d'un virus de la grippe, l'homme possède un CV très solide, ayant produit pour des noms tels que la Scred Connexion, Mysa, Le 4Romain mais aussi et surtout Smiff N Wessun, Inspectah Deck et Big Noyd. Pourtant, celà n'a aucune espèce d'importance ici, car ce beatmaker instrumentiste opère avec cet opus, "Plugged", un virage dans sa démarche artistique, avec une volonté nette d'affirmer une réelle musicalité au delà du simple beatmaking.
Au cours de onze tracks denses et cohérents, Nab nous fait donc voyager dans son univers musical, entre Soul, Blues, Soul et cinoche français vintage... Une atmosphère intimiste nimbe tout l'album, tel un film entrecoupé de dialogues cultes et charismatiques, et on ne saurait résister à l'invitation. Entre tracks lumineux et aériens ( le superbe "Summer Days" ou l'envoutant "African Smile") et morceaux plus lourds ("Leave Me" totalement saisissant entre drums massifs et guitares meurtries ou l'énorme "Gangsta Blues", qui vous prend littéralement aux tripes dans une vibe évidemment blues et épique à souhait), NabH24 fait preuve d'un savoir-faire et d'une maîtrise dépassant de loin le cadre de la simple production Hip Hop dont il vient à l'origine...
Non, ici, nous avons le droit à des solos de haut-vol, des arrangements extrêmement travaillés, des compositions touchant au travail d'orfèvre. Quelque part entre les Black Keys et Just Blaze, le beatmaker en provenance de Montpellier tire son épingle du jeu à chaque plage, "Plugged" ne souffrant d'aucun track réellement dispensable (fait rare!), possédant une cohérence réelle tout en sachant alterner les ambiances et les influences. On citera encore le manouche "The Roms Trip" ou "No More Trouble" (tribute à Bob Marley), preuve de l'éclectisme musical du bonhomme.
En un mot comme en cent, ce "Plugged" est clairement une révélation, un album à réellement découvrir de fond en comble, nous donnant clairement l'envie de voir ce beatmaker associés à des artistes vocaux (MC's ou chanteurs) ambitieux et visionnaires pour nous pondre une sorte de Blakroc franchouillard. Ne passez pas à côté!
Tracklist : 01. Get Busy 02. Leave Me 03. Summer Day 04. Crossroads 05. Desert Child 06. Plugged 07. Gangstas Blues (Janis Crying) 08. The Roms Trip 09. African Smile 10. Winter 11. No More Trouble (Bonus Track)
I heard people say that they were unhappy with Onra’s last offering of beats created from Asian vinyl, Chinoiseries Pt 2. maybe they wanted something more like this! Budamunk delivers beats that will make Black Belt Jones happy on this free download.
Belgium composer by the name of "Niazura" droppin' some great work, very soothing, very chill tones on this one.. Something you could just hit play and ride out too.. Not much is known bout the producer but this is a great peace of audible art.. Support WIB AND ARTIST!!
Tracklist : 1.Winter Reflection (Nujabes Tribute) 03:24 2.Moon Flower 03:22 3.I Miss You 04:26 4.Another World 06:40 5.Interlude 01:36 6.Light in the Night 04:00 7.Rose of May 03:45 8.River in the Sky 04:16 9.Before the Storm 02:33 10.A Christmas With You 05:28
many people are showing their care towards Tom "vSquared" Spiteri right about now, a young dj / producer based in cardiff, uk. from a completely non-musical background, Tom has been working over the summer months perfecting his album with the intention of releasing it for free; "it's not for the money, it's for the people who love music, to simply enjoy my creation."
drawing inspirations from his life so far, various other music genres and fellow artists, Tom has managed to create a magnificent concept album designed to best be heard as a continuous running listening experience, that constantly shifts seamlessly through moods and styles.
"Who Really Cares?" is truly the sum of its parts, one consistent progression comprising of 13 bass music tracks including remixes of Alicia Keys, Amerie and Fetch. running for just over an hour, the album, in the words of Tom himself, "should be listened to in its entirety, with the full attention of an open mind."
album cover by thomas schaller (on.fb.me/v4Ugxa)
Tracklist : 01. Unrecognised Number (Intro) 02:02 02. Let's Grow Old Together 05:39 03. These Years 06:51 04. The Live Experience 06:34 05. Profit 04:30 06. One Thing (ft. Amerie) 05:52 07. People (Interlude) 01:15 08. Numan - Secrets (vSquared Remix) 05:56 09. Glow 05:56 10. These Years (Fetch Remix) 04:15 11. Fetch - Origin Known (vSquared Remix) 04:06 12. Drive Thru Beirut 05:32 13. Feeling You (ft. Alicia Keys) 03:33
dFAD3R is a trip-hop/glitch-hop project of the English producer, beatmaker and sound engineer Darren Holdaway. "Bleak" EP is a special release for Dusted Wax Kingdom with pure organic essence of melancholic downtempo and abstract hip-hop beats.
Indebted to hip-hop pioneers as much as ‘70s funk and Motown soul, Hermitude’s largely instrumental second release Threads defies the trend by producing an Australian hip-hop record equipped with a panoramic view. Perhaps we can point the finger of blame at the one-dimensional sound of the Hilltop Hoods for inspiring a generation of insipid artists with keyhole vision. Now there’s a seemingly endless wave of rappers rhyming in exaggerated Australian accents aping America’s egocentric style.
That’s what makes a record like Threads so important in a typically cloistered scene. A song like ‘Exhale’, featuring Hau of Koolism fame, demonstrates a musical depth and lyrical intelligence that’s missing from a slew of new Aussie hip-hop releases. Self-aggrandisement is replaced with humility. Lyrics like “I’ve got to slow it down / refocus now” are at odds with a medium usually reserved for MCs telling you how good they are, or how much they like to party. Occasionally it’s difficult to not care when you’re throwing those hands in the air.
That’s not to say that Hermitude take themselves too seriously. ‘Your Call’ finds Aussie hip-hop stalwart Urthboy playing call-and-response with the honey-voiced Elana Stone who mellifluously flirts “I’ve been wondering if I should call you.” She subverts the hip-hop female stereotype of being a mere sexual avatar; Stone’s toying with her male counterpart in a song about finding love in a café. Jamaican icon Luciano does his peace and love thing on the bouncy track ‘New People’, a fairly staid song that conforms to the typical reggae checklist.
Vocals are a rarity on a record that more often than not is reminiscent of the turntablism of RJD2 and DJs Krush and Shadow. ‘Frayed’, with its sombre piano melody and sampled soul vocals, recalls DJ Shadow’s seminal Entroducing. The block industrial beats of opener ‘Bloodshot’ sounds like DJ Krush spinning records in the depths of East Berlin. There are sprightlier moments, such as the oddly Flaming Lips-esque ‘The River’ and space party jams like ‘Vector’ and ‘Slychain’, that arc back to the duo’s days in performing in funk bands in the Blue Mountains. The importance of this history can’t be overstated in the context of Threads: it gives the music of Hermitude heart and soul. You can hear it in the sinuous bass lines, the meticulously arranged songs and breath of musical touchstones.
Threads is one of the most illuminating Australian hip-hop records of the year, and evidence that there’s still a wide berth of territory to discover for artists willing to remove the blinkers.
Tracklist : 01. Bloodshot 02. Slychain 03. 44 Gallons 04. New People (feat. Luciano) 05. The River 06. Cartridge Kings 07. Exhale (feat. Hau) 08. Frayed (feat. Steve Clisby) 09. Vector 10. Your Call (feat. Urthboy & Elana Stone) 11. Stepping Stones
Very deep ambient called Chemisphere and continues with the melodic breaks Macrocosm , a really peaceful and profound track which unlashes some spiritual energies hard to be described in simple words. The third track featured on the album is Floating Mythodia , consisting in a deep and quiet progressive work, very atmospheric as well. Looks like the forth Silver Butterfly brings some energy and wakes up the listener, warming up the scene with some nice breaks, very mentally and sophisticated produced, and later it's time for Prism of Essence to calm down the spirits focusing on the mellow and deep break beat with ambient melody. Soulcolours is a beautiful ambient track, very hypnotic and nostalgic, but there's the great drum and bass called Airfield that takes the listener up, at least spiritual if not physical. The last but not the least is Nanosphere a cosmic and strange breaks tune, with some long and dizzy strings of melody. Reflecting two personalities, so many various and complicated music tastes, mentalities, way of living and of perceiving the world, this album concentrates upon different things than the usual electronic kick ass monster party. It goes further, beyond the mind and the spirit, penetrating the consciousness and infiltrating in the feelings that we have regarding music in our way of understanding the concept. This album really enters "beyond the unknown".
Tracklist : 01 Monogramm 02 With You 03 Finding A Cloud To Ride 04 Soulsin 05 Love Letter 06 Divine Form 07 Treat Me Right 08 Symbosium 09 You Will See 10 Sky Pilot 11 My Garden 12 No Styl' Gia 13 Rosetta Stone 14 Last Contact
«Так хорошо обретать братьев. Душа поет и сердце спокойно. Музыка вплетается в жизни и направляет в нужную сторону. Я опускаюсь на уровень глубже и соединяюсь с единым потоком. Здесь мы все едины, здесь мы все одна семья. Я возвращаюсь обратно и музыка льется из меня. Пальцы рождают ноты. С губ слетают слова. Душа заполняет каждый новый звук. Моя музыка - моя религия. Моя религия - моя свобода. Моя свобода - я сам. Закрываю глаза и с детской доверчивостью погружаюсь в окружающий мир. Любовь и покой - мои кислородные балоны в этом океане эмоций"
Tracklist : 01. Она как воздух (Вступление) (2:48) 02. Disposition (5:56) 03. He cant walk (4:48) 04. Kassiopea (5:18) 05. Metroplex (6:18) 06. Nuguria Island (4:16) 07. Глаза Кошки (5:41) 08. Sorrow (4:37) 09. Tenderness of stars (3:44) 10. Unfinished Symphony (4:16) 11. Voltage compensator (5:34) 12. Осень(Live Cut) (3:47) 13. Синтезатор(Slow ver.) (5:48) 14. Формат пространства (4:11) 15. Вспоминаю с теплом (5:02) 16. Я не буду ничего говорить (2:31)
Morriarchi (a.k.a. Miggy Manacles) is a top-skilled beatmaker from the fellow-feeling family of Bad Taste Records. "The Outer Sphere" EP is a special debut, matching perfectly the drum of Dusted Wax Kingdom with masterly cooked-up head-nodding beats, trippy melancholic vibes and chilled atmosphere.
