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I'm thrilled that AK hip-hop crew Home Brew have debuted at number 1 in the New Zealand album charts.  This is music I actually give a shit about, and its popularity seems to be completely about the force of personality that shines through in the music (not how much money got thrown at it or whatever else).  

Home Brew's MC, Tom Scott, justifiably has a lot of light shone on him.  He's fantastic.  But I thought I'd try and do the same for the beatmakers, given production's my thing...

Spectacularly hissy, ambience with plenty of low-end looping business that showed up on the Non Projects label site a couple of years back.

The thing's almost like a suite - for an ambient track it's completely bereft of reverb and jumps about in volume kind of abruptly. It's lovely though. Like Fennesz et al the harmonic content is really pretty, just heavily distorted in multiple ways.

Would've been "hypnagogic pop" in 2011, probably "post-rock" when it came out 10 years earlier. Either way, get it now from Epitonic.

Spaced out techno / dub / whatever those Mexicans produce surprising amount of, which you can download from XLR8R