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The electronic artist's new album, labor, is full of busy sounds. FLOOR BABA's music, which teems with all manner of colorful and lively sonic splotches, has always made me picture a cell's internal industry. labor makes the connection more explicit. This is productivity music for an imaginary realm in which work is fun, in which … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – Heatwave Blues
The electronic artist's new EP is filthy/funny. FLOOR BABA makes music that balloon animals would listen to: it's colorful, zany, and full of rounded edges. On filthy/funny's title track, FLOOR BABA takes the piping call of a chiptune bird, bends it into all kinds of loopy shapes, and then sends it wiggling over a jelly-legged … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – filthy/funny
The experimental electronic artist's latest EP is FACILITIES. "caution! caution!" is the kind of message you see flashing on your video game screen when your avatar wanders into the right kind of wrong place, some cave or secret base that contains a frightening and unconquerable enemy who, of course, must be conquered in order for … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – caution! caution!
Digital tinkerer FLOOR BABA unveils a collection of B-sides from 2022's PREHISTORY. You're walking on a sunbaked sidewalk when suddenly you see a black line snaking across the concrete up ahead. Upon approach you realize that it's a column of ants marching in a pointilist rivulet. You always thought ants went about their business quietly. … Continue reading Daily Yinz – FLOOR BABA – ANT PATTERNS (INDI & MULTI)
Water armor, a side project of FLOOR BABA, sets aside the former's hyper-expressive video game sounds for something a bit more meditative. Where FLOOR BABA's chiptune synths and frenetic beats bring to mind images of sleepover-happy middle schoolers crushing energy drinks, button-mashing XBOX, and hurting themselves on a friend's trampoline, water armor's most recent release, … Continue reading Daily Yinz – water armor – My Reflection
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