Co-founder and manager of prolific Lyon-based ambient electronica imprint Ultimae Records, Sandrine Gryson (aka Mahiane), is back with a new compilation, a bewitching fruit of […]
Tag: Downtempo
QBLA :: Where The Girls Are Green and the Grass Is Pretty (Architects + Heroes)
QBLA is on a powerful mission to invade hip hop and transform its underground trajectory. Southern California’s William Rosario has quite a few tricks in […]
Bimbotronic :: Street View EP (Crackling Claps)
There’s a certain charm tucked away in these recordings, each track replete with low-flying basslines. Bimbotronic (aka Richard Faulty) delves head-first into dub-infused space via […]
Zoon van SnooK :: The Bridge Between Life and Death (Lo)
Comforting, dramatic, and all aquiver, The Bridge Between Life and Death has the pacing and variety of a matinée for the whole family, bound by […]
Mojo Rising :: On The Horizon (Cold Busted)
Via an astute ear for electrons fluttering in downtempo streams, On The Horizon reinvigorates vintage synths, bass guitars, funk and good old-school electronics and ignites these frequencies […]
το σκιαγράφημα :: Dinner with Alexia EP (33)
A welcomed and unique low-riding sonic manifest. To Skiagrafhma (το σκιαγράφημα—in Greek, which translates to the sketch) reveals five brooding dub spheres for Greece-based 33. […]
Faint Object :: EP (Lower Parts)
The rather obscure artist evacuates preconceived exp-downtempo notions and inserts a screeching cacophony composed of clicks, clunks and deformed melodious layers for perfected audio engagement. Three […]
Cuttooth :: Cuttooth LP (4 Lux)
This self-titled sophomore outing is equal parts downtempo electronics and simmering inner-city echoes. A tangled hip-hop web shimmies into fragrant click-hop on Cuttooth‘s follow-up to […]
Boards Of Canada :: Tomorrow’s Harvest (Warp)
Tomorrow’s Harvest achieves a kind of re-route, as if seeking to achieve triptych, somewhere sequential with the psycho-ambient-chill of MHTRTC and the ambivalent wooze-out of […]
MIKTEK :: Sounds and images
Mihalis Aikaterinis (aka Miktek) talks about Elsewhere, his first full length album on Lyon-based boutique record label, Ultimae. Read further to find out what Mihalis […]
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