Zarif – Over (Breakage Dubstep Remix)
Still loving this one. Deep and soulful dubstep with an MJ Cole feel.
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Esco
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Kevin de Caluwé
Caribou – Sun
Riding the waves of YouTube, I stumbled upon this fantastic track. It grasped my ear immediately, because of the warm synth, the organic drums, and the visuals. Caribou slowly builds up the tension, by adding subtle drum layers, increasing the stress on the vocal loop, and going loose on the synth line. Great stuff, and if you want more, you can check the whole album ‘Swim’ on Soundcloud (not everything is my cup of tea though). ‘Swim’ will be released on April 19th.
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Kevin de Caluwé
I understand that you say it’s a stretch of our normal fare, if you look what we’ve posted here, it’s mainly dubstep and techno. But this really fits the baaseline ‘music drenched in bass and atmospherics’. And it’s a perfect example of discovering new music, which always has been the aim of this blog. Hear, love and share.
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Starkey – Millennia
And the brilliant records just keep coming. “Millennia” is the b-side of ‘Stars’, the single that’s preceding Starkey’s new album Ear Drums and Black Holes. According to the memo Millennia “bends glacial melody lines around epic strings and fluttering electronics, gently building into tight synthfunk and dropping back to a vocoder-like bassline, before ending on deep 808 pads and restful oceanic noises.” Rrright. I will just say EPIC TUNE!! And that it sounds like Zomby on a kraut-trip.
(PS: I edited this entry to say that you have to play with a loop of the part between 2.10 and 2.40. BOH!)
Be sure to check our older post on Starkey – ‘Stars’.
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Kevin de Caluwé
Sepalcure – Every Day Of My Life
Hotflush announced the release of Sepalcure’s debut EP. The Sepalcure website features two nice tracks, with astonishing drawings by Sougwen. Despite the obvious vocal samples, ‘Every Day Of My Life’ is great. It has a soothing atmosphere, and the slow bpm turns the track into a perfect companion for a hot summer afternoon (which I normally do not relate to dubstep-ish music).
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Zach
It has kind of a flying lotus sound. Im diggin this….
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Schatrax – Overcome
This makes me very melancolic.
Just want to hear this one in the morning, preferably in Berlin, or in a car, at night, driving through abandoned places. -
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Wait What – Suicidal Fantasy (The Notorious B.I.G. vs. the xx)
I know what you’re thinking. “Mash-ups? – Been there done that.” You’re right. And still, this album of Wait What is one of the best things I’ve heard this year. Basically Wait What took the sounds of the XX’s debut album and put Biggie’s verses on top of it. The whole album was made available for free download on March 25th here, the 13 year anniversary of Life After Death’s release.
One of the stand-out tracks is this ‘Suicidial Fantasy’. Not only you hear how deep some of the XX’s basslines go (check the original ‘Fantasy’ here), but you also hear how dark some of Biggie’s lyrics actually were. (Check Biggie’s ‘Suidical Thoughts’ here. Earlier Whizz posted the Lorn remix of the same Biggie song here.)
The stress is buildin’ up, I can’t,
I can’t believe suicide’s on my fuckin’ mind
I want to leave, I swear to God I feel like death is fuckin’ callin’ me
Naw you wouldn’t understand
You see its kinda like the crack did to Pookie, in New Jack
Except when I cross over, there ain’t no comin’ back
Should I die on the train track, like Remo in Beatstreet
People at the funeral frontin’ like they miss me
My baby momma kissed me but she glad I’m gone
She knew me and her sista had somethin’ goin’ on
I reach my peak, I can’t speak,
call my nigga Chic, tell him that my will is weak.
I’m sick of niggas lyin’, I’m sick of bitches hawkin’,
matter of fact, I’m sick of talkin’.Wait What – Suicidal Fantasy (The Notorious B.I.G. vs. the xx)-
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This mash-up is also brilliant: DMX vs THe XX! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9dl5_pwKQ
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Carsten Jost – Days gone by
Dial Records from Hamburg releases a new compilation filled with techno-at-ease, emotional minimal and roadtrip-by-night electronica. This reminds me of Superpitcher‘s excellent mix album ‘Today’. This compil is in the same league, and I love every second of it. Essential!
Boomkat has the full album as download. Go and buy it if you like this.
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Wareika – King’s Child (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)
I only recently stumbled upon this one-year old beautiful Villalobos remix. We don’t have the dry-clean Villalobos at work here, but the soulful, jazzy, dare I say Chilean?, Villalobos at work. Niceness. Or, as a German youtube user comments: “supergeile scheibe”! Doesn’t that sound sexy?
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Floating Points – Love Me Like This
An incredible track by London’s Floating Points dating back a year or so. It’s not fresh of the presses, but it sure as hell sounds fresh as ever. Originally released with a male vocal, this extended dub version just sounds so much better without the vocal. It’s rich and colourful housy melody just gives you that instant feel-good. I just can’t help but smile when I hear this.
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Roska & Jamie George – Wonderful Day
Roska released his debut album last week, and it’s filled with kicks & snares, soul and bass. I really like all tracks, the album is modest, and a perfect balance between beats and bass. There are a lot of tracks out on YouTube, but this is maybe one of my favourites. Purrrfect flow!
Jan Waeben are discussing. 
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Esco is discussing.
The whole album “Swim” is amazing! Nice to see this posted here as well. Even though it’s a bit of a stretch to our normal fare, it really does suit the sound we’re digging here.
Those not convinced by Caribou’s previous album should reconsider: “Swim” takes a whole new direction.