It’s astonishing how Kroubikou can find the time to combine such a random assortment of oddly engrossing sounds and samples into such short tracks.
Tag: Hip-Hop
quickly, quickly :: Easy Listening EP (Ghostly International)
A fine EP of atmospheric psych-pop inflected with jazz, soul and other styles, combining synths, propulsive drums and a variety of other instrumentation with gauzy vocals and wistful melodies.
K.L.O :: Slow Mode (Colony Productions)
That smudged area between hip-hop, bass music, turntablism, manipulated vocoders, and abstract electronics is where you’ll comfortably find K.L.O’s Slow Mode album.
Kool Keith + Scorn + Submerged :: Distortion EP (Ohm Resistance)
Best listened to on headphones to enhance the feeling of being in a dank basement lit by failing fluorescence that hints at monsters in the darkness.
Jvox :: Strange Universe 3 (Component)
SU3 is yet another foray into the unknown; allowing its listeners to traverse distant and dense sound structures that are utterly unique and abstract, eerie and serene, chaotic and calm, and often at the same time.
SIMM :: Too Late To Dream (Ohm Resistance)
A subtly extreme culmination of sandblasted dub extracts and tempered downtempo slices.
Space Afrika :: Honest Labour (Dais)
A sprawling 19-track movement of textures, contorted ambient spaces and beautifully crafted open-ended melodic performances. Space Afrika have delicately created a vulnerable sonic tapestry that your senses believe to be almost entirely organic.
Meat Beat Manifesto :: Storm The Studio (Sweatbox / Wax Trax!)
From the way Jack Dangers chose multiple versions of the same song to the unexpected blasts of pure unadulterated distortion, to the chugging beats 10 years ahead of their time.
LAITR :: Sapphire Send (Acroplane)
The Madrid-based producer from Manchester delivers old-school blistered beats with downtempo elements and tosses them about. The resulting deconstructed and bass-infused tracks tend to shift and shatter.
V/A :: Interstellar Communications Vol 2.1 (Pyramid Transmissions)
Ultimately an upper level smorgasbord of audible electrons that doesn’t let up even for a moment, Pyramid Transmissions have curated another top release that contains just enough energy to thrust us into Interstellar space without looking back. IC2.1 is the quintessential catalog of electro and highlights the best in the scene.
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