Michigan-based ensemble Nomo are back with their newest, Ghost Rock, just in time for the summer heatwaves that will undoubtedly settle upon us. I know I have today’s post categorized under “afrobeat” but the truth is that Nomo’s sound is much broader, fusing krautrock’s repetition, the deepness of funk, the borderless perspective of world music, [...]

 

 Nomo :: "Rings": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Afrobeat, Instrumental, MP3, Promo | No Comments »

It gives me great pleasure to be back posting after a hectic month of work. Expect much more regular content moving forward, starting with today’s post from Los Angeles DJ/Producer Presto. His early 12″ instrumentals were a staple of my older downtempo and hip-hop sets, so it’s fantastic to be able to bring you word [...]

 

 Presto :: "Higher" featuring Mhax Montes: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Breakbeat, Downtempo, Hip-Hop, MP3, Promo | No Comments »

This is the first of two posts of bands with the word “State” in their names. Other than that, they have very little in common. First off, is Washington D.C’s Statehood, the newest project from former-Dismemberment Plan rhythm section Joe Easley and Eric Axelson, Vehicle Birth’s Leigh Thompson and vocalist Clark Sabine. I don’t [...]

 

 Statehood :: "Still Spinning": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dancepunk, Indie, MP3, Promo, Rock | 2 Comments »

More familiar perhaps as the A/V wizards behind the Ninja Clan’s more memorable live performances, Robin Brunson and Stuart Warren-Hill return with their first full-length LP since 2004’s tragically underrated Master View. Even casual electronic music fans know that much has changed in those three years, witnessed by the emergence of entire genres and [...]

 

 Hexstatic :: "Bust": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Breakbeat, Electro, Electronica, IDM, Instrumental, MP3, Promo | 2 Comments »

The prolific Guillermo Scott Heren, man of many pseudonyms, is back with yet another release under his most noteworthy guise, Prefuse 73. One of the forefathers of the glitch-hop sound — an abstract, mostly instrumental and regularly angular take on hip-hop’s standard 4/4 — Prefuse builds upon an already stellar body of solid experimentalism with [...]

 

 Prefuse 73 :: "Beaten Thursday" : Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Breakbeat, Electronica, Glitch, Hip-Hop, IDM, Instrumental, MP3, Promo | 2 Comments »

Scissorkick loves it some instrumental goodness — especially of the punk-prog-metal variety — and that’s just what was delivered when the newest LP from Temporary Residence’s Sleeping People showed up in the mailbox. Growing is the second record from the San Diego-based quartet (that now includes Pinback and Howard Hello’s Kenseth Thibideau) and it’s [...]

 

 Sleeping People :: "People Staying Awake": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Instrumental, MP3, Promo, Rock | 2 Comments »

I know I tend to wax poetic about Brooklyn’s Studio BPM, but in New York City, where people obsess over finding the next, best thing, it’s always important to value what’s happening right now. Not to be confused with Studio B in Greenpoint, Studio BPM is a lesser known performance space run by true music [...]

 

 Ticklah :: "Two Faces": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Dub/Reggae, Instrumental, MP3, Promo | 3 Comments »

The Smalltown Supersound label has been steadily putting out some of the most unpretentious yet forward-thinking “pop” music for sometime. Tussle and Jaga Jazzist may be the most immediately recognizable names, but Bjørn Torske and Kim Hiorthøy are strong contenders for the label’s most innovative solo artists. Hiorthøy, an accomplished graphic designer and artist, is [...]

Electronica, IDM, Instrumental, MP3, Promo | 7 Comments »

Big week of new music in store. Advanced apologies as the job has gotten the best of me over the last few weeks. But in that time I’ve received a superfluity of sickness, some truly unreal gems, with the biggest, baddest and most exciting the newest record from The Cinematic Orchestra, Ma Fleur, which is [...]

 

 The Cinematic Orchestra :: "As the Stars Fall": Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Downtempo, MP3, Promo, Soul | 9 Comments »

October 17th marks the release date of new Ghostly artist Christopher Willets’ Surf Boundaries. A beautiful piece of post-shoegazer guitar and electronics, it represents a narcotic blend of melodic, ambient drone and pastoral, at times, uplifting playing and programming. Glitchy yet highly listenable, Willits mixes his/her vocals into an ambiguous, heavenly concoction and literally surfs [...]

 

 Christopher Willits :: "Medium Blue" from Surf Boundaries: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Downtempo, Electronica, MP3, Promo, Shoegazer | 6 Comments »