Free Music Collection : February 2012
It’s that time of the month again, and we’ve tended our gardens, and found some beautiful growth. Click through to start harvesting for yourself, and see my contributions below. As always love to Stadiums & Shrines and Think or Smile.
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- Lay Bac – Shortcuts: Deep cuts, and dancy vibes will cut you right to the core.
- PORTALS Mixtape #1: Full of so many good jams you’ll wonder if good music super novas really do exist.
- Beat Culture – Tokyo Dreamer: If beats could be friends, then this album would be full of some of your best. Oh an did I mention there’s enough Beyoncé samples to make you want to put a ring on it.
- Flights – Anywhere But Where I Am: Sounds so sweet for the winter months. These folk introspections are meant for quiet nights and thoughtful mornings.
- Magical Mistakes – Special Friends EP: Birthed in a small village in Japan, and drawn together by the power of the internet, this is some of my favorite electronic sounds around.
- easily suede – Signalling: Drifting in and out of consciousness, these are some experimental sounds that touch the soul.
- Handbook – Nomadic: The prolific producer is back with another album full of some of the sweetest hip-hop inspired beats this side of the internet equivalent of the Mississippi.
Moon Bounce have been a favorite for quite some time. And now Corey Regensburg is working on a new LP that’s yet to be named, but is due sometime this Spring, if the fates allow. Telephone is our first listen, and it comes fully equipped with this homemade video, he admittedly had no real plan for…they just kind of did it. And yet I can’t imagine a more fitting moving image. As the vocals loop, “There, with a telephone” - Corey is doing his version of just that. And frankly, I’m glad it doesn’t look like anyone else’s.
Grab Telephone here.
Shigeto - Please Stay
Shigeto’s Lineage EP just released today on Ghostly International. I couldn’t stop listening to the EP all day yesterday (thanks to FADER), it did a great to to aid my Monday blues, and keep me from plunging their depths, as can sometimes happen. The eight songs play as some kind of meditation, allowing you to let it subvert your conscious and play its part in whatever you’re doing.
Zach Saginaw’s many facets of talent shine through on this mini-LP. It’s almost as much a look back on music - jazz, hip-hop, etc. - as it is on his own ancestry. I highly suggest you go stream this bad boy, then buy it on wax over at Ghostly.
Porcelain Raft - Unless You Speak From Your Heart
Porcelain Raft wasn’t too much on my radar before I got to see him last year at SXSW, at the Transparent x Forest Family Recs showcase. Mauro Remiddi somehow transcends age, both physicality and musically. You can tell he’s no youngster, there’s something ‘lived’ about him, yet there somehow remains a freshness in his eyes.
From reading more about his life and experiences, it’s no wonder his music is as eclectic, solid, and enjoyable as it is. He directed this video for one of his more upbeat and infectious pop songs on his new album Strange Weekend out now on Secretly Canadian. You can stream the whole thing on his facebook.
Magical Mistakes - Supermoon Crashed featuring Mutual Benefit
Erik Luebs released his Special Friends EP today, and in doing so has unpigeon-holed himself from any constraints the word “producer” might have put on him. This EP is a collection of collaborations and remixes with people like Jordan Lee from Mutual Benefit, Lady Lazarus, and more.
Supermoon Crashed surprisingly melds these two totally different forms of making music. Erik’s thoughtful electronic production is married perfectly with Jordan’s more naturalistic instrumentation and swooning croon. I’m a fan of anything Magical Mistakes touches, but it’s nice to see him expanding his territory and collaborating with some other great artists.
