February 2 2012
DOWNLOAD: Shigeto - Huron River Drive
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(Photo: Tim Saccenti)
"Huron River Drive" by Shigeto immediately envelops you with electric piano warmth and the wispy clip of galloping jazz drums. When the bass finally drops, everything fills out towards a unique take on modern jazz as well as electronic composition and stoned-out instrumental hip-hop. His new 12-inch is out now via Ghostly.
January 27 2012
DOWNLOAD: Matthew Dear - In The Middle (I Met You There) (feat. Jonny Pierce of The Drums)
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(Photo: Philistine DSGN)
"In The Middle (I Met You There)" finds Matthew Dear breaking into a full electro hip-hop strut with the help of Jonny Pierce of The Drums. Synthesizers fly through the sonic assembly line while a thumper of a beat keeps your chain swinging from side to side and spliced micro-samples rain down in a hypnotic backdrop. Find this, perhaps Dear's poppiest song, on the new Headcage EP – out now on Ghostly.
December 16 2011
DOWNLOAD: Matthew Dear - Headcage
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(Photo: Philistine DSGN)
The minimal stomp on "Headcage," the title track off Matthew Dear's upcoming four-track EP, is exactly the sort of thing you'd want to use to your advantage when staring down someone across a club. Synths curl in funky patterns while polyrhythmic drums bash away like they were being played on a xylophone made of bones. Headcage comes this January via Ghostly.
December 6 2011
DOWNLOAD: Mux Mool - Palace Chalice
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(Photo: Tim Saccenti)
On "Palace Chalice," Brooklyn producer Mux Mool (real name Brian Lindgren) has crafted a sneering piece of beat science with a rumbling trump, sparkling synthesizer arpeggios and nods to funk that'll keep your windows down no matter how cold it gets. Find more on his upcoming Planet High School, which is set for a February 7 release on Ghostly.
November 17 2011
DOWNLOAD: Little Dragon - Little Man (Tycho Remix)
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This remix of Little Dragon's "Little Man" by Tycho is immediately intergalactic. Electronic drums go all kraut with a rapid robotic beat and singer Yukimi Nagano hovers over everything with soulful confidence. There's oscillating arpeggios and dry choral backgrounds that add a gaseous element that makes you think the track is barely there. We assure you it is.
October 20 2011
DOWNLOAD: HTRK - Synthetik
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(Photo: Conrad Standish)
HTRK makes us want to fall in love in that too-young-to-matter destructive kind of way where you stay up all night doing whatever drugs your neighbor has and then go hang out in a graveyard before realizing you have a calculus final in three hours. "Synthetik" is ghoulish makeout music at its finest with a slow, slinking beat and guitars so distant it's like they're spying on you from a mountaintop. The duo's most recent album, Work (work, work), is out now on Ghostly.
October 17 2011
DOWNLOAD: Jacaszek - Dare Gale
(Photo: Piotr Tarnowski)
Jacaszek is back and coldly serious as ever on "Dare Gale." The Polish composer treats airy, abandoned noise with classical hands to make dark ambient music that could easily soundtrack the next time you get trapped in a cave. Sink into this one and try to find your way out. Find more on Jacaszek's new album Glimmer, which is available December 6 on Ghostly.
June 30 2011
DOWNLOAD: Com Truise - Brokendate
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New Jersey electronic composer Com Truise, real name Seth Haley, constantly experiments with synthesizers and structure in an attempt to bring new age sounds to the future. He continues this path on "Brokendate" -- a song built on sanguine synth melodies that wobble in a way reminiscent of Boards Of Canada and dance over a beat that hits harder than most of his chilled-out contemporaries. Many claim intergalactic exploration via music, but Com Truise is the closest we've heard to actually leaving this realm in awhile. His new album, Galactic Melt, is available now on Ghostly.
