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Tomas Barfod - Broken Glass (Shlohmo rmx)
Shlohmo takes Tomas Barfods new single deep into the woods and hides it. (soundcloud)
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Mo Kolours - Keep It Up
Mauritius born London based Mo Kolours blends the music of his living environments and comes off a like… uhm a disciple of Ashley Beedle perhaps? Séga rhythms vs UK bass. DL his two new EPs Drum Talking and Banana Wine from his Bandcamp.
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Ooko - Downtown
Bristol producer Ooko injects some welcome new ideas into the bass sound/genre which has become increasingly stale over the last months. (The Sex Sells EP streamed at Soundcloud)
movements»march12
Movements»march12 by Looknotes on Mixcloud
Spaceghostpurrp and The Raider Klan adopted the witch house practise of letter juggling in names and titles, a gimmick which suites their syrupy horror phonk and puts them on the same page as the post witch house rave scene where bdsm goth synth and jumpstyle meets crunk and grinding R&B. Where witch house tried to be serious and beautiful this style is distorted and over the top; tasteless, ridiculous and quite fun.
Bay area producer Gummybear is, as mentioned before, a good illustration of how borders are blurred and new contexts generated. Equally at home in the cloud rap of Friendzone’s Kuchibiru Network 2 as as in the aggressive blend (horror, ice, sea, slime…) on Aural Sects Icepunk comp.
I made a mix which covers some of these recent movements. Bass > indie R&B > Cloud rap > Metro Zu > Raider Klan > Horror crunk/rave > Sea/Ice/Slimepunk and corresponding ambient/drone. The theme is quite loose though, it’s tracks i like basically. Radio Slave and Thomas Gandeys take on Mousse T’s 90’s classic Horny is of course nowhere near any of the mentioned styles. But it fits in nicely and serves as a reminder that this kind of microgenre/hashtag surfing is what you make it and should not be taken too seriously.
