Coma My Orbit (Dauwd Remix)

Germany’s hottest duo, Marius Bubat and Georg Conrad, whom make up the production alias, Coma recently released their ‘My Orbit’ single, an amuse bouche of a track, offering fans a taste of what’s to come on their highly anticipated second release for Kompakt, In Technicolor. This week Pictures/Ghostly rising production star, Dauwd offers a sexy take on the Cologne stomp original.

Turning the deep, darkness of ‘My Orbit’ into creeping synth and static clacks along with a haunting vocal ellipsis, Dauwd builds off those pensive moments that still linger early on in the night. Creating his signature warming glow, Dawud melts away inhibitions and relaxes the mood, as edges of circumstance begin to soften and the evening comes into full effect. Atmospheric swirls, bursts of effects and the subtle blair of jazzy horn effects round out the track just before the sun begins to rise again.

Listen to the original that premiered on Pitchfork a few weeks back, in case you missed it!

Festivals

Benihana. Festivals / Night

As we’ve mentioned many times this year, Ireland’s burgeoning music scene is not to be overlooked. Today we bring you Benihana, a duo out of the North of Ireland, Kildare to be exact.

What’s fascinating about the emerging electronic acts from this region is how they all manage to intertwine this beautiful atmospheric feel into their sound.As if providing a geographical guide to their quaint homeland, Will Molloy & Billy Archbold lead you through sun-glinted pitch shifts, rapid bursts of swirling synth, and dark building basslines rolling along mysterious, unpaved roads.

A cinematic history brought to life through bold, brassy synth, dancing bouts of organ notes, and the ever so subtle bit of sexiness.

Ifan Dafydd - Llonydd (feat. Alys Williams)

Ifan Dayfdd Llonydd (feat. Alys Williams)

After partaking in some intense rehabilitation due to the soul melting effects of Ifan Dafydd’s first single ‘Celwydd’, we’ve completely relapsed and are in a state of utter elation over his latest jaunt. Literally translating to mean “quiet” or “calm”, our young grasshopper craftily strings his listeners along by ensuring ‘Llonydd’ is anything but that.

Leaning more on the theatrical, storytelling side in comparison to ‘Celwydd’’s lighthearted nature, ‘Llonydd’ clings to a part of the day when the moon is high above and bubbling tempos beckon for your being to do anything but stand still. Singer, Alys Williams’ translucent words reverberate through shadowy walls, and pitched cries that peek out from darkened corners, as she makes her way through billowing organ synths and piano key flecks. With both ‘Celwydd’ and “Llonydd’, Dafydd weaves this flirtatiousness song and dance element throughout, eliciting a charming infatuation with his music you just can’t ignore.

Recordiau Lliwgar‘s second installment in their vinyl compilation series, Y Record Las (The Blue Record) is out 1st April (today). The double 10″ vinyl compilation features new material from four of Wales’ rising stars; Ifan Dafydd, Ymarfer Corff, Llwybr Llaethog and H Hawkline, we promise you don’t want to miss out on this release.

(I wrote this for The Line Of Best Fit today)

GROWN FOLK- THE BOAT / KEEP FEW NEAR (IH003)

Grown Folk The Boat/Druture Purple City Fashion Week

This was a post that kind of turned into an artist profile I did on my friend, DRU for The Line Of Best Fit. Da future you know. 

Earlier this year, San Francisco’s Icee Hot label officially introduced us to Montreal production duo, Grown Folk, with the release of their “The Boat / Keep Few Near” release. Since then, the duo have released a long awaited collaborative EP, Cloud City, with bay area rappers, Main Attrakionz, which includes two stellar remixes from futuristic producer, Kuedo, and today, the duo explores another dimension of their creativity with one half of Grown Folk, Drew Kim’s new endeavour he’s dubbed, Druture.

Experimenting with pitch and bpms throughout a track is a fascinating ability that not enough producers utilize, probably because they’ve never thought to. It’s also an art. Looping possibly the coolest line ever uttered, ‘I Get Paid’, through oscillating beats that reflect kaleidoscopic fragments of light at the most fantastic of angels, Grown Folk draw you towards their pretty, sparkly things almost instantly.

Building a track from the ground up, that will eventually become more than just digitized drums and a 4/4 beat, Grown Folk’s love of vintage synthesizers can be heard billowing through excruciatingly precise xylophone pings, and insanely infectious loopa. Reconstructing beats out of pitched vocals that rasp, and rub your speakers raw, juxtapozed with wildly dancing bells, ass slapping rhythm divised through cleverly EQ’d claps, and bass that chugs along as if climbing a mountain, Grown Folk take the concept of house music and graudate it five steps forward.

With Druture, Kim explores his love of southern rap, taking the beats behind those lyrics to new heights through a handful of freshly released hip hop tracks. Ranging from ethereal, spaced out ripples of drum patterns and pulsing effects of the headbob persuasion on ‘Purple City Fashion Week’, to the ode to dupstep hero, Skream on ‘Texas Skresh’, consisting of a collection of throbbing, desolate pulses surrounded by shuddering percussion and Kim’s signature clouds of big bass airiness. With Druture, Kim proves his production style and musical tastes run deep.

When Drew Kim was little and he asked for more bass, what they got instead was heaps and heaps of VERSATILITY. It’s safe to say, the Future for this emerging producer is looking extremely bright.

Arrow(s)

by Szjerdene

Szjerdene Arrow(s)

Last week electronic-soul artist Szjerdene graced the world with a rework of sorts, in which her fragile, folky words wrap themselves around compositions originally created by producers Jacques Greene and Koreless. Szjerdene’s cleverly titled version of ‘Arrow’ explores a world of paper thin harmonic layers that act as the missing chords tying wonderous fragments of fluid, rushing beats together, and in the process, giving them life.

The Ninja Tune prodigy’s ingenious single is only the beginning for the young star’s 2013 journey. Szjerdene is due to appear on two tracks off Bonobo’s forthcoming The North Borders album that drops 2nd April. For now relish in this sublime download that is absolutely free. 

(I wrote this for The Line Of Best Fit. I promise, it’s the most lush thing you will hear today.)

DJ Koze feat. Caribou - Track ID Anyone?

by DJ Koze feat. Caribou
album Amydgala

DJ Koze Track ID Anyone? (feat. Caribou)

When we listen to music, what are we looking to get out of it? Often times, our path is uncharted, and we’re leaving the experience up to the artist. Other times we look to music as an escape, a way to be transported to another place, or to help us explain a particular feeling. Essentially, when we listen to music, we’re asking these muted basslines and full-bellied cries to help us feel something. Even if we can’t articulate why we feel a certain way about a piece of music, in the grander scheme of things, really all that matters is that we do.

DJ Koze understands this concept all too well. Believe us when we say, this album is going to change you. Delving into the deepest realms of what it means to feel something, touching on nostalgic reference points, experimental moods that drift through dancefloors of the future, and unabashedly garnering your full attention, Amygdala performs the ultimate one man show of the most magnificent proportions.

Once entranced, DJ Koze’s Amygdala will take you to the strangest of pastures and force you to feel things about peculiar sounds you know to be very much outside your comfort zone. Tearing through all previous notions of what you believed you wanted to feel, in the end, you’ll leave with much more than you brought when you arrived.

DJ Koze’s Amygdala which includes collaborative tracks with Caribou, Apparat, Dirk von Lotzow, Hildegard Knef, Matthew Dear, Ada and Milosh is out March 12th on Pampa.

(I wrote this for The Line Of Best Fit today)

Stay In (Sight)

Rules Stay In (Sight)

Washington DC producer, Rules’ latest jam.