May 2012

Weekly MP3 #211: Oisima - Sukatma

Submitted by jet jaguar on Mon, 05/28/2012 - 17:00
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Oisima randomness

Nice hip-hop beat that's vocal-led but lyric-free, courtesy Aussie radio station Triple J. You can listen first below.

Weekly MP3 #210: Spanova - Absentminded

Submitted by jet jaguar on Mon, 05/21/2012 - 17:00
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Mysterious Spanova promo pic

Goddamn cheery trip-hop kinda business, from betterPropaganda.

Weekly MP3 #209: Broken Chip - Particle Motion

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 05/15/2012 - 17:00
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Broken Chip promo pic

A beautiful, moody whirl from Brisbane's Feral Media.

Weekly MP3 #208: Jonwayne - Lunatic Pandora

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 05/08/2012 - 17:00
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Jonwayne promo pic

Seeing out my 4th year of weekly mp3s is a lovely short instrumental courtesy of Dublab's Into Infinity project - a fun project where people assembled tracks from a bunch of Creative Commons licenced snippets.  I even had a go myself.

All Home Brew's producers' other releases

Submitted by jet jaguar on Mon, 05/07/2012 - 21:20
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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...

Music as compost

Submitted by jet jaguar on Wed, 05/02/2012 - 12:07
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I read this great quote from Brian Eno, which is a really generous and interesting comment on apparent lack of originality in music.

Weekly MP3 #207: Gold and Soil - Magenta and Ochre and Turquoise and Amber

Submitted by jet jaguar on Tue, 05/01/2012 - 17:00
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Gold and Soil promo pic

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.