indiemusik

Tensnake showed up on my radar earlier this year when I first heard Coma Cat, and I’ve quickly discovered that his music vibrates strongly enough to return you to lost memories. Borrowed drum machine pepper each of Tensnake’s tracks with a retro-sounding beat. Picture a steady camera shot, zooming in on a disco ball, and returning again to a larger frame, and the dance floor is revealed, filled with all of your friends.

Polargeist – Home from the Can (Tensnake Remix)

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Omar S - Just Ask the Lonely

The cover of Omar S’s “Just Ask the Lonely”, simple and powerful in it’s use of layers: (1) the photo of Omar S in black and white, (2)with his drum machine and MPC and (3)the urban landscape covered in a blue filter, (4)the Detroit sign barely there just below (5)his name and the title, “Just Ask the Lonely”, and of course, his record label (6)FXHE Music. The production here is low-tech, but proven in its delivery, the contrast only subtly noticeable but not for a lack of distinctness; this is an aesthetic that crosses over from the cover, to the inner labels of his records, to the audio production and songcraft on his records.

“we live with folk who we have no intention of ever marrying, we sleep with folk who we have no intention of ever marrying,we have babies with folk who we have no intention of ever marrying,YOU’RE PLAYING HOUSE!!!!!”
Green Velvet – Preacherman

Ghosts on Tape describes some of his influences: bass music. nervous energy. david attenborough. outdated recording techniques. These are all great touchstones. I picked up on “Midnight Moves” after checking out FACT Magazine’s mix by Subeena, where she dropped it along with some other great wonky, dubstep, and bassey tracks. If you are in the Bay Area, check out his Icee Hot party night for some futuristic dub and elliptical bass grooves.

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I Give Myself to Strangers by Jens Lokking and Friends

The more that I listen to this, the more that lusty sheen starts to wear into a Zen-style koan- ‘I give myself to strangers, I bully round the streets.’ Dreamboat Mag has been transmitting on my wavelength for a while now, I recommend you check that blog out.