Eleven Tigers - "Stableface"

I haven't heard music this good in a long time. I really really REALLY enjoyed this entire album, "Clouds are Mountains", from start to finish. Apparently it's an extremely talented Lithuanian producer based out of London, making fantastic music. The sound design is really varied and moody, consistently moving to new heights and lows at different points. Each track blends into the next flawlessly, an extremely seamless listen. At points the album is dark and brooding, then uplifting and gentle at others. The most varied, ambient, and interesting dubstep I have heard in a long time.

Buy it here

Bit1 - "Bits and Peace"

Simple, minimalist, hip hop inspired beats here. Definitely enjoying it, free download. Bit crushed, chippy distorted sounds, mellow vibe to this project overall.

http://bit1.bandcamp.com/

Tres Fronteras by Nucleic




Recent collaboration between my good friends Neff and Kenney and myself. Turned out pretty nice, what do you think?

Neff and Kenney @ the Western Front 4.22.10

Had the pleasure of watching my friends Neff and Kenney perform the other week at the Western Front in Cambridge. Tim Kenney is the other contributor to this blog, and a very talented musician as well, so it was definitely a great event. Really talented, diverse line-up, other acts included Manadub (roots dub style), Eat Cloud (experimental one-piece noise project) and Truman Peyote, a three-piece psychedelic noise group. Really talented array of musicians, and Neff and Kenney's show was no disappointment. Trademark dissonant sounds colliding with elegant synth lines and crunchy drum patterns. I attached a video so you can get some idea of their live performance. Galen, a friend of the band, provided live bicycle-powered electricity for their instruments, as you can see in the video.

Check out more of their stuff here on Soundcloud.

SolarBeat

http://www.whitevinyldesign.com/solarbeat/


Hmmm...Don't really know what to say about this, but pretty interesting. Dig the concept for sure.

Access to Arasaka - "Oppidan"

Dark, glitchy, ambient soundscapes from this upcoming NYC-based producer. Sounds like a modern day soundtrack to Blade Runner, for some reason. Futuristic, moody, hints of industrial noise and plenty of synths. I liked the artist's description, taken from his myspace:

this is my desire for a dark future with neon cities and cyberware.

my longing for fully interactive neural internet, gang warfare, and corporations acting as governments.

monolithic arcologies reaching for the sky in a city that's constantly shrouded by rain.

it's what i would hear in the soundtrack of the chatsubo. in freezone. in the metaverse.

it is the aural vision of the world i wish i lived in.


Download here

Shipwrek - "Journal"

Tim - ask and you shall recieve. No, but seriously this album is awesome and I've been meaning to post it anyways. I think I played it four times in a row in it's entirety the first time I heard it. Couldn't find too much online about this guy, but he's an electronic music producer from the San Francisco area. Big ups again to my girl/friend Lila for introducing me to his album.

Really nice blend of sounds here. He is obviously influenced by the typical "whomp" sound of San Francisco/west coast but doesn't let it permeate his work entirely. Rather his sound can be categorized as a really enjoyable mix of acoustic and electronic sounds. Bass heavy, rattling synth lines fade away into mellow, ambient acoustic guitar/melodic passages. The opening track "Speakeasy" is pretty much a bumpin, epic banger but from there the album goes in many directions. Sounds equally as good coming from headphones as it does bumping out of giant speakers.

Don't sleep on this.

Kammerflimmer Kollectief - "Cicadae"

Shimmering, ambient noise patterns juxtapozed with elegant, beautiful neo-classical melodic passages. These are just some of the sounds coming from the Kammerflimmer Kollectief (translates to "Shimmering Collective".) Founded by German musician Thomas Webber, they have been playing together for more then a decade. Their style is not limited to any specific genre, but instead encompasses jazz, electronic music, neo-classical, ambient, and more.

Understated and subtle, this album is at times elegant and restrained. However, as with any avant-garde work, there are moments of dissonance and squawking. The music veers into a distorted, abstracted feeling of losing control only to abruptly return to a more melodic section. Really interesting/somewhat challenging listen. Not recommended for everyone, but will definitely be appreciated by fans of John Zorn, free jazz, or Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble (see my earlier post here.)

Cicadae (2009)

Tycho - "Past is Prologue"

This is a pretty chilled out, mellow ambient album from Tycho, an upcoming producer from the San Francisco area. It's definitely more of a background album then something you wanna blast loud, but it's definitely a nice listen. It's got tons of warm, synthy melodic parts, and the drums are a nice, kinda jazz-brush tone. The mix is real nice, especially on "Send and Receive" and "Past is Prologue."


get it