Preview: SAFE’s upcoming All The People All The Time LP
Catch a little album medley from Christopher the Edley on the YouTubes above! An exciting new batch of songs, to be sure. Love how Chris sings stuff. And the production has only gotten smoother. Smoothtastic. Smoothtasy. Smoothnastification.
Listen: XXX by JaMile Jackson
DL: http://www.sonicxlabs.com/data/sounds/XXX.zip
JaMile’s 2011 beat tape: more of that postindustrial, filthed-out greatness. In one sense it’s a tightly controlled range of (mostly) harsher sounds, pounding out some raw, serious beats amid washes of texture, using samples of his own music, others’ music, and synth melodies from some cybernetic overbrain. In another sense it’s a solid, diverse set of instrumentals, putting itself in conversation with psychy L.A. hip-hop, steppy UK beats, and German electronics. But in the truest tradition of American techno, this music is about the relationship between something organic and chaotic (sex) and something powerfully manipulated, like the codes that machines use to commune with one another.
Jib Kidder - Blue from Asthmatic Kitty on Vimeo.
Aaron Harbour dropped his new collection of beats ‘Sinthome’ this morning on Bandcamp. Some tasty, steppy, broken, sample-only hip-hopicity for your 2011 brain from a serious Oakland loop digger. The title’s a Lacanian term that uses an old French spelling of symptôme to describe psychoanalytic symptoms as “the way in which each subject enjoys the unconscious in so far as the unconscious determines the subject” (Wikipedia). In other words, a sinthome isn’t a decipherable message or a container of meaning; it just evidences the way someone plays with their self.
MANE MANE - JUST CALLED from miko revereza on Vimeo.
Fashion Video 1 from miko revereza on Vimeo.
