Here's the weekly #OPM digest ! A one-stop guide to #music selections from 8 Fediverse #Musicians . It's a great place to get some #BandcampFriday selections, or maybe find a new favorite artist.
As always, you can find a permanent archive of these, with slightly longer writeups, at my blog. The permalink for this week's is here:
#Lofi#downtempo track that offers what sounds like a real bass guitar, some absolutely snappy drums and a gorgeous lead synth/string line, along with some chilled out e piano chords to tie it all together. Goes a little hard to work as the kind of background music that gets bundled up into those “lofi beats to study to” compilations, but it’s all the better for it.
Fuzzy, #lofi#downtempo that feels like it wants to grow up to be a #DeepHouse track (albeit a deeply weird one): all that’s missing is the kick drum and a groovy bassline. Hard hitting drum sounds, minimal pads and a garbled, filtered vocal chop are the main ingredients, and for the #gearheads, it might be interesting to hear this was all done on a #Digitakt.
I put together my April favourites on Bandcamp via BuyMusicClub. There were some great releases this month I think. Parra for Cuva has finally set up a Bandcamp account with his new Mimose album as well as the new Catching Flies album is also out now, plus a bunch of other great releases. Hope you enjoy! ✨
today I have released my new single 'Glades'. A midtempo/downtempo song with a soft fluttery synth line that dances around an enchanting music box sample, hope you enjoy! ✨
You ready to hear about some #OPM (other people's music)? I'm going to try something different this week and add all of the music I'm covering in one thread, with the blog containing slightly longer versions of all of these linked at the end. LMK what you think of this format.
The golden age of downtempo may be in the rearview mirror, but it casts a long shadow, and tracks like “World Within” prove it. Deeply inspired by the prime era of “back to mine” compilations, this is a super chill and jazzy slice of laidback breaks, upright bass, piano and an ephemeral vocal line. There’s also a nice synth line that comes in about halfway thru.
Well, would you look at that? Another downtempo track, this one leaning into drum and bass! We got a theme going! This one turns the chill up to MAXIMUM and the production to minimum, with some minimal breaks hung with shards of synths doing most of the work. About halfway thru the breaks kick up a notch (tho stay chill) and some nice strings float in to pretty things up.
A pair of fairly different tracks show two different but complementary sides of Paul Griffin’s work. “Fat Wren” is jazzy and swinging, with a flute-like synth line and some pretty arpeggios draped over upright bass and breaks. “Caught” is a spacey ambient track with the expected hypnotic arpeggios and low end drones – easy to get lost in, if you so desire.
It's release day!
Excited to share my new album with everyone. "Concentric Circles" is now available on #Bandcamp and from your favorite music streaming service.
If you like #electronicmusic, especially #synthwave, #IDM, and #drumandbass, please check it out! 😀
"Natural Blues" is a hauntingly beautiful electronic track by Moby. Featured on his critically acclaimed 1999 album "Play", the song incorporates a soulful vocal sample from Vera Hall's 1937 folk recording "Trouble So Hard". Known for its melancholic undertones, "Natural Blues" became a global hit.
Nothing much else to add regarding this review of jazzy, dubby, world-beaty music. Interesting that RareNoise Records is still active tho'. Maybe I should indulge them on this #BandcampFriday ? #ElectronicMusic#Jazz#Dub#Downtempo
Victoi Film is an imaginary movie: a tale soaring cityscape's silent anarchy, like a desolate dusty Dhalgren at sunrise, moving deeply over steppes unto the edge where the building lights are a jeweled curtain of stars...
hi all, here are a few codes for my new #downtempo#chill remix of Australian artist, Elyxir's #synthpop track, "I'd Rather Be Alone". Elyxir's incredible vocals and melodies are definitely the centerpiece of this reinterpretation. hope you enjoy it!