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A few words about a few local tracks that hit the spot this week ### Luwidakid - Too Playa Luwi and guest Freddo Filial daydream over a Julio-produced instrumental that sounds like it could be playing in a Grand Theft Auto cabana. More from Luwidakid Follow on Instagram https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z85-JTukOTI ### Calvin Stanley - Functional Amnesia … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up 04.19.24
A sneak preview of the first single from XC-17's upcoming album, due out later this year. XC-17, a former member of the spectral RnB duo ALONA and a founder of the LGBTQ dance party group Dyspheric, is releasing a full-length album later this year, and was kind enough to share some of it with Bored … Continue reading Daily Yinz – XC-17 – RIDRARC
Producer Ali Berger's latest release, Self-Defense of 100,00 Thoughts, draws inspiration from the cypher that is the human mind. Thoughts are strange. In a concrete sense, they're nothing more than electrical signals pinging through neural pathways in the brain, bouncing off each other, splitting, diverging and recombining in novel ways. Thoughts are self-reinforcing; they can … Continue reading Daily Yinz – ali berger – it’s ok to sleep and dream
slowdanger are an experimental performance body whose work fuses sound and movement; their latest album is called VEIL. slowdanger have long used dissonant synths and eerie snippets of the human voice to build their mysterious sound cocoons, but VEIL represents a long stride into a swirling, noisy abyss. Grainy static whips the ears like a … Continue reading Daily Yinz – slowdanger – CRUEL HAND
In mid-February, HEARTAVI released REDSTARR01, a distilled sugar rush of a debut album. There was always a kid who would let their Tamagotchi die on purpose; that one sicko who would neglect their digital pocket pet, refusing to feed it or press the medicine button when it got ill, all for a sadistic chuckle at … Continue reading Daily Yinz – HEARTAVI – TAMAGOTCHI
Mitcham Tuell's Mome Rath project (named for the tiny, two-legged puffballs from Alice In Wonderland) infuses dance music with a jittery, unsettling energy. Mome Rath's debut release, Kitchamajig, contains vaporous melodic swells, fast-twitch drum programming, brass accents, and a few garbled vocal samples. "Sunlit," the album's second track, is both its strangest and most subdued … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Mome Rath – Sunlit
Glo Phase, a producer who moved from Pittsburgh to Los Angeles earlier this year, recently released a new record on the 100% Silk label. With each album, Glo Phase consistently manages to balance crystalline gloss and soulful warmth, and Early Moments is no different. Misty keyboard tones wash over beds of crisp, organic-sounding percussion, like … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Glo Phase – Ice Sleeper
Producer Gladstone Deluxe's new Lost! EP contains four house tracks replete with playful keyboards and plenty of boots 'n' cats. "Spinning Top" is carried along by a driving, four-on-the-floor beat that gradually accumulates layers of melody and complexity. Bright, organ-like bursts flit about like fireflies, piano keys plink, and atmospheric synth washes hang in the … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Gladstone Deluxe – Spinning Top
W00DY creates twitchy, frenetic "dance music for headbangers," blending genres as disparate as breakcore and punk into one supercharged mass. W00DY's most recent album, released via Orange Milk Records, is (fittingly) titled Headbanging In The Club, and it contains a menagerie of off-kilter rhythms, breathless samples, and wobbly bass. "Neck Spasm" has the ability to … Continue reading Daily Yinz – W00DY – Neck Spasm
Birds Unltd. specialize in rhythmic, synth-heavy psych-pop music; "Still Holding on to You" is the group's latest single. The track contains five minutes' worth of swaggering guitar, chunky bass, phased cymbals, and buzzing keyboard lines, these elements creating a forceful groove that anchors dreamy, free-floating vocals that express trepidation over a relationship. It's like Franz … Continue reading Daily Yinz – Birds Unltd. – Still Holding on to You
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