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New band of the day. Late Night Tales. Late Night Tales. The series has been met with critical acclaim,[2][3] with GQ Magazine praising Late Night Tales as "The Rolls Royce of compilations".[4] 2011 saw the label celebrate their 10th anniversary with a box set including all albums to date.[5] Friendly Fires' compilation[6] released in November 2012 marked the 30th in the series. Albums[edit] Kingdom- That Mystic EP. Yo! Grab Kingdom's 'That Mystic' EP, released on L-vis and Bok Bok's Night Slugs and digitally on A-Trak and Nick Catchdub's Fool's Gold Records, labels that continue to produce some of the freshest artists around.

Kingdom is a dj/remixer/producer originally from right outside of Boston, where he grew up as a punk rock kid, then experimented in electronic bands and listened to jungle and house in his high school years. Residing in Brooklyn, NY for the past ten years, it's no wonder that his sound is influenced by r&b and hip hop as well (sampling Beyonce and Cassie below). He combines these influences with garage and grime and voila, you've got some dope releases. Bonus: Pang- Kingdom (mediafire download) For more info on Kingdom, including live events, follow his website here. FACT magazine: music and art. Articles: New Vocabulary. Throughout a class of genres and micro-genres, there seems to be a new musical vocabulary emerging, one centered around the way vocals are being manipulated to create moods and atmospheres defined by their amorphous, often spectral nature.

Ghost voices. It's something like what happened in the film Inception, the way music could be heard through layers of dreams. That effect-- as though sound were floating through several walls of consciousness, its outlines blurred to be almost unidentifiable-- has something to do with the fact that we've heard a lot of these vocals before in their original form; they're often samples that have been resurrected and re-articulated to express a sort of new slang.

You can hear it in dance music and hypnagogic pop, in witch house, drone, and art rock, the various presentations just as disparate as they are interconnected. Burial"Ghost Hardware" "Ghost Hardware" is built with the same fogged-up parts that comprise much of Untrue. Mount Kimbie "Maybes" Future of Music - music industry, music business, digital music and free music downloads. Jet Set Siempre. Mexican Summer. Through>>>>>>>>>> The>>>>>>> Grapevine. Teams vs Star Slinger – Punch Drunk Love. If someone was to tell me that I am the new J Dilla, I would probably make them my friend for the rest of my life. Then, in some gross, vain music ritual, I'd have them repeat it to me every day. This, surely, is what Star Slinger must feel. Why does every review refer to him as 2011's answer to J Dilla? Coming far enough away from those parts (Detroit) and nearer to post-industrial Britain, isn't that a bit weird?

Well, no. Naturally, Indie Shuffle got involved early on: you can find a review of his Volume 1 here and a review by a bloke from my old school here (where you will find that his taste, naturally, for a "bedroom" DJ/producer is broad and excellent). I shall leave you with this blitzkrieg of a track: Punch Drunk Love. Witch house (music genre) Witch house is an occult-themed dark electronic music genre and visual aesthetic that emerged in the late 2000s.

The music is heavily influenced by chopped and screwed hip-hop, dark ambient soundscapes, industrial and noise experimentation, and features use of synthesizers, drum machines, obscure samples, droning repetition and heavily altered, ethereal, indiscernible vocals. The witch house visual aesthetic includes occult, witchcraft, shamanism and horror-inspired artworks, collages and photographs as well as significant use of typographic elements such as Unicode symbols.[1][2] Many works by witch house visual artists incorporate themes from 60s, 70s and 80s cult and obscure horror movies,[3] the television series Twin Peaks,[4] and mainstream pop culture celebrities. Many artists in the genre have released slowed-down remixes of pop and rap songs,[17] or long mixes of different songs that have been slowed down significantly. Egedy described witch house as follows: It’s a joke. Album Reviews: Egyptrixx: Bible Eyes.

The reputation of David Psutka's Egyptrixx among beat music cognoscenti was quickly cemented last year by tracks like "Battle for North America" and "The Only Way Up", the latter being one of the brightest cuts to come out of a packed-with-hits Night Slugs camp. His willingness to take the basis of UK funky into techier, more austere turf meant he could stake a potential claim as a progressive-minded genre-tweaker.

Still, all through his previous peaks, you could hear his music stretching, testing itself, reaching for something ahead even as it planted a couple solid feet directly in the midst of a spotlit movement. Bible Eyes is what those earlier singles were reaching for, and as a full-length debut it's a bit of a shock-- the familiarization process of a compelling new artist sped up into a rapid succession of surprising revelations. Earlier singles hinted at clean minimalism and deep rhythmic space, but that sound is significantly starker here. AlbumTacos.com. The Hood Internet. January 2008. Boubacar Traoré is songwriter and guitarist from Mali. I don't know much about African music (though I will say that this is an incredible recording), so here is some info from Wikipedia: "Traoré first came to prominence in the early 1960s.

He had taught himself to play guitar and developed a unique style that blended American Blues music, Arab music, and pentatonic structures found in West Africa's Mande cultural region. He was a superstar in Mali and a symbol of the newly independent country (see History of Mali). His songs were immensely popular and he enjoyed regular radio play. However, he made no recordings, and since there were no royalties paid to musicians, he was very poor and had to work odd jobs to make ends meet.

During the 1970s Traoré's popularity faded, until a surprise television appearance in 1987. Try it - 128kbps, .mp3, mediafireBuy it! Staff - motel de moka.