Chrome Sparks = <3 and Soul

There’s been a lot of space on Smoke Don’t Smoke inadvertently committed to the tunes coming from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Something that only over time do you find yourself wondering why there is such a concentrated collective of good music. Well when getting some serious hang time with Jeremy Malvin, aka Chrome Sparks, at SXSW this last year, he had brought up a great idea of putting together a compilation featuring some of these amazing artists. Of course I was on board.

Flash forward a few months later, and here it is. Aaural is the first compilation from Ann Arbor collective GRL MTN. Enjoy this brand new banger from Chrome Sparks above, and others from the likes of Kohwi, Subvader, Medicine Hat, Mellows, Promises and more!

Stream the whole thing here.

Download here.

Premiere ::

Kohwi = Mesa (Pepepiano Remix)

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Laying in the warmth, altered but stable, while sounds of a parallel universe play around, between and through. A dancing invitation to travel through the far reaches of happiness and kindness. This is the kind of experience Cory Levinson aka Kohwi’s new album Hidden Trees can lead to. It is very much experiential music, meant to come alive, to live alongside you.

And if there was one thing that could make such an experience even better, it would be to add the spaced out dreams of Pepepiano. A most suitable collaboration.

You can download tons of music on Pepepiano’s bandcamp, and you can also grab Hidden Trees digitally here, and on cassette here (Wonder Beard!).