rescuing musical virtue in distress.
There has, for obvious reasons, been a wave of artists making music reflecting the times of late. After all it is in times of adversity when the most interesting music is made. Rock 'n' Roll, Punk, Hip-Hop, Rave…all music born out of heady combinations of frustration, disenfranchisement, rebellion, a desire for cultural or political change... Continue Reading →
Africali make music which is the equivalent of cutting a sonic gemstone. Hold it up and it throws out all manner of different colours and patterns depending on how the light catches it. The same can be said of Daughters of The Sun. Turn it one way and pick up on Afro-rock rhythms and heady,... Continue Reading →
If he as trying to create nothing other than a wonderfully chilled, dance-infused, mellow vibes, pop song, Olivier Herràn the man behind Dreams of Orion would have succeeded with room to spare. But the fact that he has claimed that the music has a higher purpose means that perhaps the music needs to tick certain... Continue Reading →
The strange and beguiling spoken word intro to the wonderfully named Made in Snoring pretty much sets out the mission statement for the man behind the Rural Manifesto. Over odd, meandering and slowly building electronic ripples he underlines the much held view that, compared to the city, everything that takes place in the countryside is... Continue Reading →
Imagine if dance music was more than the sum of its parts? More than the infectious rhythms and the solid, martial beats, more than the euphoric highs and the falling lows that help carve the dynamics from solid sound, more than just the stylish accompanying videos…and this has a particularly stylish accompanying video…more than the... Continue Reading →
I guess if you wanted any further proof that the world is a small place and that cultural influences and musical inspirations are free to tumble around and cross-pollinate at will, creating new, unique, hybrid sonic forms, then 3P1C H1D3R is it. Pshyche is a wonderful mix of sounds and styles, genres and geography, a... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you just need music which hits all the right spots, something fun and funky, something that washes over you and enters your body by some sort of groove-based osmosis rather than requiring you to put too much effort in. And when you are in that sort of mood then you can turn to Nikavo.... Continue Reading →
This latest song from Xalser takes pop along some interesting sonic pathways. It starts off in fairly familiar territory, a chilled, soulful, R&B groove built of sultry tones and casual beats, doing exactly what you might expect it to. And then about a minute in it mutates into a wonderful, futuristic, alternative-dance hybrid. Although dance... Continue Reading →
I guess the reason that so many people, especially in the pop and dance worlds, are referencing 80’s sounds, even if they don’t always realise it, is because that was a more pioneering time. Today, making music can be as simple as downloading samples, using technology to bend even the most lack lustre vocals into... Continue Reading →