Considered one of mankind's earliest great stories, the Epic of Gilgamesh is a 4,000-year old Mesopotamian tale of an archetypal hero king. Thus the sonic storyteller Scatz is bold to parlay this piece of history into the name of his newest tune, "Illgamesh", the fourth track from Elemental Minded Promotions' thick 11-part compilation Neurons Vol. 1. New cuts from the compilation will continue to drop on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays throughout November.
Read MoreA.M. Architect - Color Field
On November 11th, 2017, A.M. Architect released Color Field, an extensive downtempo journey through the sonic multiverse. In tandem with the musical release, the duo released an accompanying short film and a special “artifact” to bring a personification to the spirit of the LP.
Read MoreSmigonaut & Tsimba Collab on Elemental Minded Compilation "Neurons Vol. 1"
Elemental Minded Promotions (EMP) has earned a reputation for touring top-shelf bass music through Connecticut and the greater Northeast. They now embark on a new venture with the release of Neurons Vol. 1, a dynamic 11-track compilation of exclusive tracks from EMP’s favorite up-and-coming producers. The compilation contains tracks from each artist represented by the management arm of EMP - DeeZ, Keota, Scatz, Smigonaut, & Tsimba - and The Rust will highlight each one. Today we offer "Headspace" by Smigonaut and Tsimba.
Read MoreWonk#ay Records - Feed the Contagious
Bass music is, in its purest form, a powerfully aggressive blanket-genre that thrives off of the manipulation of visceral, razor-sharp tones that thwack right in the chest and pulse deep in the eardrums. As Halloween rolls around each year, the spirit of the occasion has a tendency to creep its way into even the finest threads of low-end brutalism. This time the result is nothing short of skull-splitting as FEED THE CONTAGIOUS, a brand new compilation of specifically-produced tunes, hits the airwaves today via Wonk#Ay Records.
Read MoreCharlestheFirst Continues Honing His Sound With Single "Void"
The young Californian bass music producer CharlestheFirst just dropped a new single on Bandcamp today entitled “Void”. Raw and reckless, “Void” somehow strikes a balance between light and heavy, dirty and smooth. Walls of watery bass back erratic combinations of sound design, with no two combos appearing to repeat themselves.
Read MoreWaterchild & Space Cadet - Premonitions
Bringing out the right flavors for “world music” is often times a daunting task; finding the proper timbres, creating an atmosphere of realism, and injecting the perfect porridge of nostalgia takes a musical mind that’s ready to put down tropes and typical schemas in favor of unbridled sonic exploration. Waterchild and Space Cadet bring to the table an atypical, yet absolutely archetypal bevy of rhythms, grooves, chops, cuts, and pulsating bass lines through their newest collaborative EP, Premonitions.
Read MoreInner Ocean Records Drops Futures Vol. 4 Compilation on Cassette Store Day
There may not be a more appropriate way to celebrate Cassette Store Day, October 14th, than pressing play on FUTURES Vol. 4, a two-plus hour tape of scratchy, stoic lo-fi and ambient beats from premiere independent label Inner Ocean Records. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Inner Ocean’s name reflects both the expanse of mountain, sky and plains which surrounds the Calgary, and the well of creativity within ourselves that stirs with the experience of music.
Read MoreBoukas Blends Beats and Dub on A Song For Samantha EP
Beatmaking is undoubtedly an art. As such it is composed of many styles, each with it's own nuances. On his new EP A Song for Samantha Dennis Boukas of Stockholm, Sweden, or just Boukas when he's on the beat, showcases his own style - a delightful hybrid of dub and J Dilla influence peppered with a pinch of jazz. Boukas released this project with NINETOFIVE Records, which exclusively releases some of the finest contemporary hip-hop production this side of the galaxy.
Read MoreTipper - Lattice
Lattice is a style of framework that calls for criss-crossing strips of wood or metal, layering and interlocking different pieces to create a ‘network’ of calculated entanglement. The music of premier sound sculptor Dave Tipper exists in a similar manner, weaving seemingly unconnected sounds and emotion into intricate, multiplicitous organisms that ebb and flow in construction with each subsequent live performance.
Read MoreJon Kennedy's Masterful Trip-Hop Odyssey HA!
With subtle brilliance, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jon Kennedy builds upon a nearly two-decade career with HA!, setting the standard again for balanced, break-based downtempo hip-hop music. This robust 15-track album, released September 22nd, exhibits a strain of musical expressionism which can only be described as rare, painting a soundscape full of life and variable emotion without a hint of din or dissonance, without a trace of zealous exhibitionism.
Read MoreAleph Conjures Lo-Fi Bass Music on Vol. 1
Without having the thrill of listening to ALEPH before, one would be excused for overlooking his overtly unassuming new EP, Vol. 1, released through the wonderful Renraku Global Media. One would be robbed of a visceral pleasure. Take a pinch of time today to digest this one, which has all the space-age, low-end blitzkrieg sound loved so universally, revisioned in a spectrum and soundscape that is often reserved for the more hip-hop oriented genres of electronic music and production.
Read MorePete Satürn Releases Mystifying Ritual Grass EP with Instigate Recordings
Pete Satürn hails from somewhere between Rhea and Hyperion. Floating among these mighty moons of the mystic planet Saturn, the artist must have absorbed and reflected upon the elemental admixture of solar sound known as the “music of the spheres.” He’s channeled this into his two-track Ritual Grass EP and his INSTiFREE010 track "Parallel Vision," coming courtesy of Instigate Recordings out of Bristol in the United Kingdom.
Read MoreMettakin - Oneironautic
Freshly minted through Street Ritual, Mettakin just dropped off the latest entheogenic pressure cooker: It’s gritty in the basslines, squishy in the midrange, and melty in the melodies and harmonies. Pulsing with complimentary frequencies and accompanied by a deliberate haphazard regard for conventional music theory, Oneironautic is the next benchmark in overtly particular sound design.
Read MoreLSN Offers Atypical Dubstep EP "Control Vol. 1"
The title of the first cut from LSN's Control EP Pt. 1 says it all - “Creative”. This is not your grandpappy’s dubstep. The arrangements on this three track release are atypical and thought-provoking, with a sound design that's both raw and razor sharp - ultimately, it's mental. Tension slowly builds from the moment the first track begins, culminating in an unrestrained explosion of bass and drum at the conclusion of the EP.
Read MoreSoulacybin - Slug Cuddles
When someone says the word “crisp”, what do you picture? Greasy potato chips? Delicious bacon? A cool, autumn afternoon? Maybe even the texture of freshly washed bed sheets? What if I told you that there was a platonically perfect form of crisp, via Soulacybin?
Read MoreK.L.O. - X EP & Y EP
K.L.O. slaps. It’s as simple as that. They've only been producing music together for a few years, but when they get in the lab together they wreak havoc, and destruction is imminent. Each contributing producer has an eclectic catalogue and a stylistic range to be reckoned with. Where the three of them overlap is K.L.O. - an outrageous, festering filth-ridden locomotive barreling through unchartered glitch hop territory. An audio mean mug, every damn time. Throw it on and look at the faces around you.
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