Voyager On the Making Of “green fields”
What was the creative process like for this particular "green fields?"
It was fairly different from how I usually approach production because it didn´t take very long, I was in my room on a sunny Sunday morning with the rays in my face, and with no thought coming across my mind "green fields" passed through me.
Can you talk about the recording and production process for "green fields?"
As I just mentioned it was fairly straightforward, I happened to have sounds and drum sounds that reminded me of those 8-bit arcade sounds and it kind of went from there, the melody that comes in was the final touch and I think it brought it all together perfectly.
What do you like the best about "green fields?"
I would definitely say it´s the nostalgic feel that it brings, due to the melody, sound selection, and the overall progression, it really provides that surge of emotion and warmth that represents the environment I made it in.
Are there any particular skills or techniques that you have been working on lately?
Recently I´ve spent most of my time making hip hop beats, as well as some ambient electronic music, which I´m planning to release a project of in collaboration with many artists I´ve met online, which I´m really excited for, in terms of skills or techniques a lot of my productions are sample-based, so I´m always improving and finding new ways to work with and around that when I´m not designing every single sound from scratch.
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FICMARO On the Making Of “Now So Am I [from EP2]”
Can you share any interesting or unique stories or perspectives in "Now So Am I [from EP2]?"
Well, there is a dichotomy between that soft soprano-like voice in the background and the rough robotic voice in the foreground. The two balance each other out where a listener is not directed in any one direction/mood. There is something humourous about the track, the juxtaposition of the sounds, and the story it tells, even dramatic.
What was the initial spark or idea that led to the creation of "Now So Am I [from EP2]?"
"Now So Am I" strangely came from my own work experience managing teams. I thought that leading a group of people meant I needed to be stoic, unmovable, and direct at all times, well needless to say, and due mostly to my own incompetence, I learned quite the opposite was true. You actually don't get your way most of the time and that's okay, instead, you're there to support others from a standpoint of knowing what their strengths and weaknesses are and working with that, together, to achieve success. On the other side, though, yes "Now So Am I" is also an empowerment anthem for one's personal life. Sometimes that zesty attitude is needed, the directness, the clarity in saying what you want/need, and not waiting around for others to provide it, that's all very important. It really depends on who is listening and where they are in their life and life choices; sometimes being selfish in a good way is necessary, and there is such a thing as that.
How do you feel "Now So Am I [from EP2]" represents your artistic identity or musical evolution?
It's danceable, mood-enticing, cinematic at times, and unique. I think these are all elements I tried to fit into 'EP2'.
Can you tell us a bit about yourself and how you got started in music?
I grew up in a fashion-forward-thinking home, a graduate of Performance Art, and I'm a fully self-taught Composer/Producer. I love technology, but I don't like the way it's evolving currently in society, more spirituality and ethics need to come into technology; and I believe if any society could do it well and harmoniously for the rest of us, it would be India. I don't know why exactly, but call it scientific intuition.
What are some of the biggest challenges you have faced as a musician, and how did you overcome them?
The Biggest challenge is rejection; like in any art form and/or business (because when you try to make money with art, it's no longer a hobby). You need to accept the fact that not everyone will like your music or even understand it. The important thing is that you stay honest and true to yourself. You'll come to realize we're all similar and even our struggles are the same, it just depends on how we want to hear them.
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Horizonte Lied Releases ‘Memorias de Crónicas Futuras’ [Remastered Edition]
Horizonte Lied continues to push the boundaries Electronic music, with their thrilling, brooding, new record- ‘Memorias de Cronicas Futuras.’ The electrifying new album is an updated, re-mixed and remastered version for the 2023 leg of the band's bigger project - "Final Remasters.”
The record encompasses a spectrum of human emotions- from the initial unexpected but positive feeling of pure love to different phases of confusion, procrastination, deception, depression, social epiphany, and finally faith and optimism during the neverending uncertainties of life.
Horizonte Lied’s newest release offers dark industrial tones with a underlying hopeful state of mind for the listener and lyrics-wise tries to offer a similar experience. With the journey through each track mirroring a distinct emotion, this new album is inspired by some of the works by David Lynch, David Fincher around 1997-2003, and musical influences of Depeche Mode and Nine Inch Nails.
Horizonte Lied is an electrifying band that produces unique dark pop electronic and organic blend of music with industrial sound textures.
Moon and Aries “KNOTS”
Entanglement, doubt, struggle, and denial are the knots in life that serve you no good. Instead, untangle negativities will set you free. Created with the best intentions, Moon and Aries brings you a spiritually charged, high-vibrational single “KNOTS.” With deep retro and futuristic textures setting all constraints back to zero, the eclectic, vibrantly captivating track unlocks your potential and aims to set you free. All you have to do is close your eyes and let go.
Immersive and stimulating. “KNOTS” brings a pulsating world into your mind’s eye through an eclectic mix of electro pop and cinematic synth pop. Sonically, it’s refreshing and clean. It reminds you the really good feeling of hunger, but in a healthy way, as opposed to obsession or addiction that pop music makes you feel.
“KNOTS” is a track that cleanse your aura and recharges your energy. Like a very memorable sonic bath. It washes through your mind and body and lifts the weight on your shoulder. “KNOTS” is liberating, and it’s simply magnificent what this duo is capable of accomplishing through their music.
Static Null “Void”
An intricate blend of warmth and coldness immerses you in the spiraling, sprawling soundscapes of “Void.” The tapping, seemingly emotionless recurring of sonic fragments manages to stir something deep inside you. Contemplating technology and humanity, the track has a side of soulfulness beneath its smooth, silvery surface. How one piece of music can be so cold yet spine-tinglingly evocative is beyond us, but the storm of sounds in “Void” sees the unusual intertwine phenomena of nature, soul, and machine.
It’s extraordinary, yet sad at the same time, for destruction and creation are two sides of the same coin. In the rise and rest of sounds, “Void” evokes those fleeing thoughts in you as complex emotions well up in your chest. Introspective and scenic. So magnificent yet intricate. It’s everything in one, like a universe of its own creation. In the end, it all comes back to the void.
Static Null is an ambient/electronica producer, and “Void” marks the Sweden-based producer’s fifth release. Static Null’s eclectic creativity and the spirit to embrace conflicts while pushing the envelope of music is something that you don’t see every day. Melancholia but bright, hopeful but saddened. The duality is so delicately handled in his music. With a new EP coming up, be sure to stay tuned to Static Null’s music journey.
Check out our interview with the producer below where we talk about “Void” and his upcoming EP.
Punk Head: I love the duality in "Void." What is the inspiration behind it?
Static Null: I worked on an EP for some time and when it was almost done I decided to not release it. I experimented a lot on it but I felt it wasn’t good enough. So I gained experience but lost the EP. And it left a sort of a void but at the same time, it felt good to make the right decision. So I made this track with the concept of losing something you worked on but still gaining something. Life goes on. The concept was a void, cold yet emotional if that makes sense.
PH: Were there any challenges that you encountered while making the track?
Null: The challenge here was balancing the warm analog sounds with the cold digital ones. But I’m happy with it. (As happy as can be that is) :) You always hear stuff others don’t.
PH: Can you tell us more about you as an artist?
Null: I work with Ableton Live and analog gear in my home studio. I live very close to nature and the forest and it inspires me a lot. I make music inspired by nature, humanity and technology. I also love the concept of man vs. machine but also our collaboration with each other. I love machines but can also see their potential for destruction. It inspires me to write pretty dark music sometimes. :)
PH: What do you aim to accomplish in the near future?
Null: Right now I’m working on an EP. So my goal right now is to finish it. One thing at a time right? One thing I would love is to play my music live around the world. So that’s my long-time goal.
PH: What would like to tell your supporters out there?
Null: Thank you SO much for listening to my music! I’ve gotten so much love it’s insane. It makes my day when I get a comment on a track or I get some streams. It always brings a smile to my face, no matter how shitty of a day I have.
cades “It's Not What It Seems”
Cades captures the motion and rhythm while rewinding where time becomes a relative term and the sonic starts to behave in a way that is strange, exciting, organic, and untamed.
cades Unravels Uniquely Inspired Electronic Single “It's Not What It Seems”
Cades captures the motion and rhythm while rewinding where time becomes a relative term and the sonic starts to behave in a way that is strange, exciting, organic, and untamed. Cades incorporates this idea into his music, but his vision never stops expanding.
The intricate gap between stop and motion offers a different perspective to the way we view and perceive music, where he managed to manipulate sound on a deeper level.
“It’s Not What It Seems” sets its sound aside from cades’ previous work as well as other artists in the realm of electronic music. The track has a fluid-like, abstract quality that keeps on evolving and expanding. It radiates and fills the space with wonderful imageries that go beyond the measurable.
The track truly amazes you with cades’ creativity and visionary composition. “It’s Not What It Seems” is a unique and inspired track that never seems to be enough to savor. One can only rewind to its beginning and hear it again and again.
SINGLE REVIEW: SINK “WHAT REMAINS”
Song of the Day
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SINK is a producer and a composer who seeks more in the sounds, instruments, and surroundings. At the crossover between reality, hope, fantasy, spirituality, and illusion, between virtual instruments and sounds in nature, it was where the UK-based artist began his journey. At the crossing, where the vision of a boundless world is possible and everything has become elements and variables.
“‘What Remains’ is about venomous attachment to drained relationships and destructive selfish behaviors. It’s a song about the relentless spread of our individualism and the connection between habits we develop with each other in our intimacy and the way we keep seizing from Earth. An attempt of picturing beauty within wildness and brutalism of human nature.” SINK
Creating organic electronic soundscapes that seize and capture natural elements while creating powerful imageries and contemplating our human nature, “What Remains” is an intense, untamed experiment that isn’t like anything you’ve heard.
The way SINK portrays the brokenness, disconnection, domination, and deterioration and weaves them into captivating, textural sonics is poised. As if a contemporary dance in the wild with the wind and dust flapping in the air but all happening in your ears, SINK’s imagination and vast vocabulary constantly amaze you.
Written by Katrina Yang
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ALBUM REVIEW: ALL YOURS “THE WILD”
Feature
Inspired by The Infinite Game by James Carse, the electronic climate impact-focused duo All Yours brings forth a conceptual EP The Wild in which they further examine the expansion of boundaries and sustainability in relation to nature, the environment/surrounding, and climate. Through a wide range of color palettes and expressionistic portray, they weave a futuristic sonic world.
A booming bass introduces us to a dominating, sense-based perception of the world that seems to reach beyond yet is still limited by what we could see and touch in “You Belong” as the ethereal voice guides you through the experience as if the inner voice. The duo subtly blends various world percussion-inspired drumming patterns into the background that reflects the vision of variety and culture. Between the bass and the light, silky skyscape, and the centering vocal, various sounds swirls and flow into your ear that amazes you with their beauty, massiveness, and mystery. All Yours create an entire world in your ear which is something really beautifully shocking to hear.
“Full Circle” opens with an electric, intensified beat in which they examine the idea of the ebbs and flows in life and tap into the way nature and life behave. Through observing the tide, they reflect on destiny, the overflow of the world, and how we could save the planet, which mirrors the core idea of the infinite game - the seeking to continue playing the game. “Open Air” resets to purity and essence in a naturally untamed beat and introduces you to a humid, cold, dark, and reverberant soundscape that reminds you of being in the wild under the starsky or in a cave. Unlike the previous tracks, “I Run You Around” puts you in perspective where you could contemplate what you have observed. Sounds travel in a 3-D circle and vividly capture the movement of “running” and “round” in which thoughts interact freely.
EP REVIEW: COLLECT CALL ”THE GOLDEN HOUR”
Staff Pick
In The Golden Hour, Collect Call creates an ethereal, whimsical, yet emotive world where the melancholy electronic dream-pop soundscape fills the air with nostalgic warmth. Lo-fi electronic beats travel in time with various versions of images and visions that meet a sensitive, sincere vocal. Obscure, shimmering dreamscape that is both alluring and glistening under the deep blue ocean.
The Golden Hour keeps you warm on a lonely, rainy day. Sentimental piano always fills the room with memories where the past floats in the thick, dusty air and time have come to a stop. “Chase the Light” introduces a light, energetic tempo within that universe, warming you up in the calming morning sun yet with a shadow of intensity. “Simple” dives underwater in a vintage, shimmering radio dissonance that exists between sounds. In a heartbeat, it swirls into a full-blossom of the dream-pop landscape.
Collect Call’s vocal gently hits you in waves on “No Amount of Medicine,” which sensitively contrasts with the vague, feathery vocal that tastes like a lucid dream in the title track “The Golden Track". The soundscape has become thicker and heavier in the lo-fi piano sound that seems to shift and twist slightly in the air.
Written by Katrina Yang
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SINGLE REVIEW: AREO “BRING IT ON”
Staff Pick
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“Bring it On” is a surprise that will spin you off of the ground with its electric, constant inspired, swirling soundscape that creates a variety of images in your head. Created by the Germany-based electronic, house artist Areo, mastered by Iorie, “Bring it On” is uplifting and irresistible
Ground-shaking groove and guitar-infused organic house soundscape, Areo fills the world with layers of sounds that are cleverly arranged and located from all angles. From music loves to avid listeners who are on the hunt for more exciting new sounds, “Bring it On” certainly can bring satisfaction to every hungry ear.
The artist translated his sense of playfulness and uplifting energy into the music and become the pulsing force that drives the track to each new highs. “Bring it On” is infectious. It makes a strong impression that one hard to forget.
SINGLE REVIEW: PHARAOHS “FABLE”
Discovery
Capturing a moment of uncertainty revolving around change, “Fable” sets its scene in a reverberant, swirling dark, electronica world where the feeling seems to be emphasized and reshaped in the air, joining the smoky, radiating, sensitive lights and sounds.
The debut release of Pharaohs has created a sonic world with their unique indie-pop, dark electronica-inspired language, stimulating vivid, brand-new imageries with its ever-changing dreamscape. “Fable” in a way, is hard to be pinned down by words.
“One day late into the evening I’d been working on different piano progressions over a four to the floor beat and it wasn’t until I wrote the horn section that I realized the song was unfolding. ‘Fable’ for me is about the common uncertainty we have when met by a fork in the road, making a choice and backing yourself that you’ve chosen the right path, wherever that path may take you,” said Kendall James from Pharaohs.
Pharaohs is the musical brainchild of Kendall James and Brett Sellwood. “Fable” as the first collaboration between the pair has naturally become their introduction to the rest of the world. Establishing a sonic experience that can only be described as “Escapism Electronica,” Pharaohs creates a lucid, emotive, and immersive world.
SINGLE REVIEW: MINI SANTS “ROMEO (Ft. GESS)”
Staff Pick
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Like the summer night, “Romeo (ft. Gess")” sparks endless possibilities. Glistening dreamscape mixed with bright, ethereal vocals, a fiery beat leads all the dance moves. Blazing synth and airy pads is the cherry between alluring lips. A swooping, electric bass adds another layer of fantasy in its sonics.
Inspired by vintage romantic cinema and summer nostalgia, “Romeo” is a wonderful mixtape of love and brightness. Lighthearted and fantastic, Mini Sants showcase the wonderworld of flamboyant color palettes. The NY-based electronic artist/producer brings back Shakespear classic in a modern electronic vocabulary.
Poetic storytelling and poised gestures. The whispers in the summer night were no louder than a breeze. From impression to color palette to mood and energy, Mini Sants always manage to give us something new with his music. His love for vintage and nostalgia meet his natural sense of fashion and hipness, giving the familiar storylines a new place in the modern world.
EP REVIEW: CITIZEN:KANE “SMOG”
Staff Pick
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Inspired by the dub universe, CITIZEN:KANE took a different approach to music-making with his third EP Smog. Consisting of “Smog,” “Smoke,” “Fog,” and “Gas,” the EP taps into the sonic world of industrialized, chemical-fused smog with vivid imageries.
“Smog,” characterized by a heavier, wide-spreading smoke has a warm, groovy bass pulsing alongside a minimalistic beat. It structures its massive, intoxicating quality with a hypnotic loop that condenses its heaviness. Obscure, flashing fragments of sounds echos in an empty, hollow sound environment, give it a vivid, eerie feel that could easily remind of certain scenes from a sci-fi movie.
“Fog” quiets down with its deadly dark, epic swooping bass approaching your eardrum as if giant footsteps. The dazzling, obscure synth-chant directly contrasts with its dark, melancholy personality where domination and sensitivity co-exist. It constantly amazes you with the power of simple note sequences.
The EP takes a detour to a light-hearted, festive “Smoke,” visualizing the immense, rising-up, and spreading-out smoke in the air. As if coming from a pipe with mysterious flavor and alluring possibilities, you watch the way it drops and interacts unexpectedly in the air, forming its own world. A variety of passages and single sounds evoke memories about ambulances and alarms. “Gas” dives into malfunction and dissonance with its unique sense of invisibility and danger mixing in the air. Reverberant drones escalate in the background gives it a chilly feel.
CITIZEN:KANE adheres to the illuminating, meditative structure, layering up with sonic storytelling and visualization in Smog. It’s a mashup of what it could be when memories and imaginations meet one simple shape of air.
Written by Katrina Yang
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Edwin Rosen Unveils Sensuous debut EP „MITLEERENHÄNDEN"
In its ethereal electrified, synth-coiled skyscape, melancholy meets a sense of catharsis. „mitleerenhänden“ draws you into its unique storytelling and emotions without getting under your skin.
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The true beauty lies between the crossover of within touch but out of touch. The distance creates a sense of distance and mystery which makes it irresistible. There is no better word to describe Edwin Rosen’s music. In its ethereal electrified, synth-coiled skyscape, melancholy meets a sense of catharsis. „mitleerenhänden“ draws you into its unique storytelling and emotions without getting under your skin. It leaves you with an unsatisfied feeling that makes you crave for more.
Edwin Rosen is a songwriter/music producer who quickly raise from the Germany's underground music scene. In 2020, Rosen self-released music without the help of label, marketing, or promotional plan in place. Drawing comparison to the likes of Joy Division, Boy Harsher, and Molchat Doma, Rosen's sound sways between self-invented modern Germany new wave.
„mitleerenhänden“
There’s a very unique sense of purity in Rosen’s music. In the well-balanced, nearly perfect sonic and evocative percussion. The ever-changing soundscapes remind you of storms and clouds. It puts you underneath the grey sky where you can never see through the thick, fast-moving clouds.
Revolving around the untouchable and the sense of lacking „mitleerenhänden“ means empty-handed, which is perfectly in alignment with its ethereal, surreal sonic. "It’s about coming to terms with things not going the way you expect them to and things ending too quickly, and the last hope that remains when all seems lost,” said the artist.
Rooted in a sensational, emotional experience, Rosen’s music goes beyond the obvious. His music enters a purer state of the art where the art itself stays inspired and relatable without being tied down to the specifics.
The EP revolves around the feeling of no matter what you do, you just don't feel like it's good enough. „mitleerenhänden“ is an intensified, introspective journey. It reaches climax with“Verschwende deine Zeit.” “1119” takes a deteor with a fresh outlook over chaos and intense feelings with captivating melodic ideas that taste like the rain. “Die Sonnie in deinem Zimmer” highlights melancholy put a haunting ending to the EP.
SINGLE REVIEW: MARI DANGERFIELD “SCREEN TIME”
Discovery
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Mari Dangerfield’s music is one that purely depends on individual experience to define. Spinning in its own universe, the artist is bringing us another introspective release with full-on quirkiness and a mixture of sounds absorbing from all around the space where electronic meets alternative and pop and musical theatre with classical icings. “Screen Time” is out of the world yet deeply rooted in the human experience of a digital age.
Taking inspiration from the way digital products continue to consume our intelligence and feed on personal information, Dangerfield explores the topic more in-depth with edgy, artistic sonics and haunting vocals.
“‘Screen Time’ is about how in the modern age, we’re all unavoidably hooked to our phones and computers. It highlights the CEOs of the companies behind these addictions and their greed for our personal information in exchange for huge profits from advertisers” said Dangerfield.
Concerning with glaring discomfort. Sonically designed to reflect our current world and situation, “Screen Time” is not a song to make you feel good about yourself, but a tune to wake you up from toxic, addictive daily routines.
Written by Katrina Yang
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ALBUM REVIEW: PETER SPACEY ‘SPACEY BEATS 4 SCRATCH VOL. 2’
Staff Pick
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For the past decades, Peter Spacey has been exploring the creative art of the turntable. In collaboration of visual component of performance art and creative installation, Spacey Beats is an interactive experience that comes from the versatility of forms. Vol.2 creates an intensified sensual and visual presentation in its sole sonic collection.
Its solidified, invasive nature instantly draws you into a world where extensive jazz chordal vocabulary meets a strong hip hop, synthwave influences. Spacey’s mastery of the turntable has translated into an expressive, creative language, which approaches the fine line between electronic and acoustic and the natural occurrence of music as a powerful expression.
Dark undertone, heavy bass, and an urban buzz. The album has sense of hipness with the purity and captivity that comes from a minimalistic, fragmented, sequential ideation. Each and every song has a very defined, articulated texture filled with vast variety of ideas and sounds. Slight microtonal ideas come in from time to time adding a fascinating color.
Based in Tel Aviv, Peter Spacey is an artist, beatmaker, and producer. Spacey Beats is placed as a soundtrack heavily in the film, commercial, and gaming industry and accompanies international major events. He also teaches the master class “Turntablism & Creative DJing” at Rimon School of Music, a branch of Berklee in Israel.
Written by Katrina Yang
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SINGLE REVIEW: ARIN “WE LOOK SO GOOD”
Discovery
In a beautiful hazy sonic surrounding deftly arranged around Arin’s moody, ethereal voice, “We Look So Good” melts in your ear like the sound of a whisper. The luscious, exquisite track paints something pure and mysteriously wonderful, like the warmth of shimmering light.
A mellow piano is well rendered in an airy surreality. As if the sea breeze gently swifts the silky drapes, “We Look So Good” stirs up your feelings. The theme of heartbreak paints the melancholy color in the sky, up in the air yet earthy and grounding.
Shattered pieces dance to the cadential beats, tempting you to forget on the dance floor, leaving everything behind. “We Look So Good” remains the sensitive, sacred nature of Arin’s songwriting.
Beautiful, evocative sonic texture revolves around an ambient piano, embarking a journey with electronic and dance elements. Arin’s music is constantly in conversation with itself, inviting you for an intimate slow dance.
Written by Katrina Yang
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PREMIERE: MARCUS HERNE “FORMS”
New Music Friday
Fascinated by evolution and the beginning of the universe, Form is a four-year-long project of Marcus Herne. Making artificial sounds organic and organic sounds artificial, Herne is approaching the infinite middle point. “My sound lives somewhere in the exceptional middle,” Herne commented.
In nothing lies everything.
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“Forms” is an interactive conversation in relation to existence. Emerging from the wilderness and complete darkness, millions of invisible particles gather into being. Vaguely formed in the shape of the moon, the sun, the universe, a pupil, in the reflection of water, light, and landscape.
The natural occurrence of symmetry is one of the beauties of the universe. Shapes and forms spontaneously formed and vanished in sonic reflection. In this multi-media project, the visuals and music complete each other, creating a bridge for a stimulating discussion between the artist and the audience.
As a seasoned composer for a vast range of media, including film, photography, and spoken words, Marcus Herne’s music connects and interacts with different art forms and collaboratively creates a unique experience. But the art isn’t complete until the audience interacts with it and forms their unique interpretations. Therefore, the form becomes a carrier for thoughts, emotions, and intentions.
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PREMIERE: SALT HOUSE LAVISH “DO NOT FOLLOW THEM”
New Music Friday
From one idea to another, reacting and interacting, “Do Not Follow Them” from the UK based artist/producer Salt House Lavish takes you on a wonderful, ear widening journey.
A glitchy, throbbing beat in a simulating, starry ambient soundscape. Just when you’re settling under the calm, glamorous canvas, tuning into the wonderfulness, drum machine levels up simulation introducing amusement with wild vocal samples spontaneously shooting out in space, passing through in awe.
From a light, stringy evocative to the deep throbbing bass, to the fun and catchy melodic line, there is at least one layer of the song you’ll end up falling in love with. “Do Not Follow Them” is an expanding phenomenon blossoming into an upbeat EDM.
Born out of a happy accident, “Do Not Follow Them” was finished within 2 hours. The track smoothly imprinted fun and free-flowing inspirations and has been well-received by blogs and radio stations. Originally, the track was designed as a standalone single, the overwhelming response from people around the world has led to an album, Franternise.
PREMIERE: SCKDRWR “INFREQUENT LIFE CHANGES”
New Music Friday
The journey starts with stepping into an elevator and ends with the starting car engine. In those fragmented moments, peeling off layers of noises, luscious pads twirls and sparks its gentle warmth, fluctuating like ocean waves or the first sight of dawn.
It’s hard not to notice the vertical, multi-layered percussion essential as the bone of the song. Scattered, spirited particles bouncing alongside glitchy, realistic clicks right under your nose while in the distance, a rhythmic jitter drives the motion forward. A sense of playfulness and brightness gleam in its rich, emotive melancholy soundscape.
“This song is my attempt to capture the brightness, and the melancholy in my infrequently changing, routine-oriented life,” sckdrwr commented, “the song is about finding the signal inside the noise. Finding a groove in the space between spaces and moments between moments.”
Pronounced as “sock drawer,” sckdrwr is an electronic artist from the Bay Area. “Infrequent Life Changes” is the title track from his forthcoming debut album, mending field recordings and lubricated pads with a personal touch of creativity.