DOWNLOAD: Aether - Anywhere + Lykke Li - Little Bit (Aether Remix)
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Tender is not an adjective often used to describe hip-hop instrumentals or IDM beats, but Diego Chavez, aka Aether, is one producer who doesn't seem to care. Although he started out producing for East Coast hip-hop crews and rockers The Panic Division, he's come into his own with a more whimsical style explored on Artifacts, his full length debut. It's almost as if the San Antonio-based producer is scoring dramatic movies before a frame is filmed. His piano-heavy productions swoon under the weight of melancholic melodies, breaking neatly under subtly shifting beats. The exceptionally concise "Anywhere" crackles with finely chopped energy as a female vocalist intones, "I'm not going anywhere." But it's his remix of Lykke Li's "Little Bit" that's likely to grab ears first, with the Swedish starlet's ethereal vocals floating above a dreamy and stuttering post-punk instrumental.
Sounds Like: Michna, Prefuse 73, Nightmares On Wax
DOWNLOAD: Jacopo Carreras - Olanto
Jacopo Carreras is not an artist who relishes the standard 4x4 structure and elements common to so many techno releases. In fact, he seems more content to smash and rearrange those strictures to create something else entirely. Educated at Royal Conservatory of the Hague and with a long history of experimental musical interests, Carreras uses home made software to turn listeners' expectations on their heads for Berlin's Lan Music. Tunes such as "Olanto" take straight ahead techno a la Carl Craig and cuts trapdoors in the rhythms through which bleeps poke their heads. By contrast, the vertiginous shifting of "Gamoolosi" calls to mind Aphex Twin lost in a band's practice space, clattering and battering listeners at breakneck speeds. Electronic music fans who are more into the journey than the groove should dip their toes and ears into the bewildering world of Jacopo Carreras, whose debut album, From Bed to Couch, drops later this year.
Sounds Like: Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Autechre
Download: Jacopo Carreras - "Olanto"
VIDEO THRWBCK: Aphex Twin - Come to Daddy
There is no doubt in our minds that director Chris Cunningham is a disturbed individual. However, when you are comparing his visual aesthetic to the auditory styling of Richard D. James a.k.a. Aphex Twin, it's 1. hard to figure which of the two is more mad than genius, and 2. easy to see why they work so well together. “Come to Daddy” epitomizes both those points, merging the IDM-signature we’ve come to associate to James with pelvic-thrusting "children". And, while we think it all makes for a great video, we can't say that it doesn't leave us a bit concerned for all the elderly women of the world.
STREAM: Daedelus - My Beau + Make it So (XXXChange remix)
Daedelus (né Alfred Weisberg-Roberts) is based in LA and makes pop songs lightly sprinkled with IDM bleeps and bloops, as well as samples from vintage recordings from the ‘30s and ‘40s. Amazing, right? We’re streaming two songs by Daedelus today—one being from his brand new album on Ninja Tune, Love to Make Music To, and another being the fantastic remix of his new single “Make it So” by XXXChange. Check it out, especially "My Beau" where Erika Rose covers the Ghost Town DJ's song “My Boo”.
Sounds like: Beck, Dntel
DOWNLOD: Fenin feat. Gorbi - A Try
More ambient dance pop from the SEEN RCRD LBL blog, this time from Berlin based electro mastermind Fenin. Fenin uses ambient, dub, IDM and soul to suck you into his blissed-out world of electronic down-tempos: like Moby and Massive Attack holding hands at the end of the biggest Ibiza comedown of all time. It definitely helps that Been Through, Fenin’s latest LP, comes straight form the roster of German techno heavyweights Shitkatapult Records. Head over to the SEEN blog to check out the video for Fenin's new single “A Try” and a hot download…
Sounds like: Moby, Massive Attack
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