Unknown - #004
Hot off the morning presses. Shrouded in mystery. Who is Unknown?
Tours - Grand Lux
I listened to this yesterday as I made my first summer beach trip. Walking along the sand, as the waves periodically crashed up over my feet, and then back down. Grand Lux is a perfect soundtrack to that scene. Kids wading a few feet out into the ocean, some jumping the waves. Exploring the vastness of the ocean with the absolutely unvast resources you possess as a child. Parents watching, and remembering what it was like when they were a kid exploring the ocean for the first time.
The sounds Philadelphia producer Dylan Sieh creates here, are somehow soulful. Marked with brightness, and adventure. You can download the two-sided single for free from label/collective Young Latitudes - with b-side Drift About. While you’re at it, feel free to explore Tours’s soundcloud.
Another week gone by, and strangely enough, good music did not stop being made. While maybe at times I’m too busy to sit down and post, I still get a chance to have these sounds in my ears at most moments in a day. I’m really thankful for that. Too many people are making really good music to not have a life that lets you listen to it.
So here I am, copping out once again, and posting up a big collection of some of my favorites from this week. From tasty electronic gems, to sweetly twisted R&B bangers, to those projects shrouded in mystery ~ I AM UNKNOWN
Let these be your companion this weekend. A lot more after the jump. I love you.
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Future Dollars - Yul Brynner as Ramses
Mister Lies & Different Sleep - Safety Net (feat. Jessica Blanchet)
Well, it’s been a couple days now. This collaborative EP between burgeoning Chicagoan producers Mister Lies and Different Sleep, is streaming, alongside some helpful insights on it’s inception, on PORTALS. And just yesterday, this official video for the track Safety Net just debuted on Stadiums & Shrines. Oh and I should offhandedly mention the Rising feature for Mister Lies.
All this to say, hopefully you’ve had some time for this EP to settle within you. For is subtle soul to trickle into your deepest corners of your self. These images compiled and arranged by Left Arm Single will certainly help the process. Here are some of his words on the video:
“I am fascinated by how two sequences of images put together can dance, bring together and pull apart your thoughts, kneading. The rhythms in the song impress in me a feeling of being somehow submerged, in a muffled, elusive world. There is no sense of direction and all you can do is roll with it.
Rolling down a hill, dirt in your mouth and hair and grass stains on your clothes. You come to as you look up at the sky. It is only afterwards that you discover the joy of remembering. Safety Net tells me a story of turning inwards, of falling off a cliff only to find oneself weightless.”
The Mass EP is now out on Absent Fever, who apparently can do no wrong.
Out of Japan, comes this submersive wave of soothing rhythmic bliss. Taquwami is a producer from Tokyo who should definitely be on your radar. His tracks are full and heavy, expansive electronic soundscapes somewhere on the border of post-dub, glo-fi, hip-hop, dreamwave, dub, and chillwave. Being on the border of those genres, and not being those genres, is what sets him apart. Below are his most recent three tracks he released together for something called Golden Week Chillbeatz. Download links are in the description here.
He is certainly making waves, and you can expect to see some special things coming in the near future here at SDS ;) His side project Occult You is equally as good, experimenting, at times, with more direct samples. In fact, this moniker was recently featured on an amazing Japanese compilation Ç86, compiled by möscow çlub.
Keep track of Taquwami and his music at any of these various locations:
blog/soundcloud/facebook/bandcamp
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