Styles: “fourth world Japan,” ambient, new age
Others: Cloaks, Dip in the Pool, Motion Graphics
Reassemblage already feels peculiarly familiar, but the residue it leaves behind is oddly intangible. Peculiar in its familiarity, because its surfaces ostensibly reflect the increasingly elusive border between natural and artificial — and the even more fraught border between cultures whose histories have already bound them together for the past couple of centuries (at least).
More about: Visible Cloaks
On May 5, year of the Rooster, Chino Amobi will be releasing a new full-length, titled PARADISO. The 20-track release is coming out on both NON Worldwide (the label he co-founded) and UNO NYC, and it boasts contributions from Elysia Crampton, MORO, Rabit, Dutch E Germ, Aurel Haize Obogbo, Haleek Maul, Embaci, Full Carnage, Jesse Hlebo, Benja SL, Rena Anakwe, Therochelle Moore, FAKA, Lee Jones, and Johnny Utterback.
More about: Aurel Haize Obogbo, Benja SL, Chino Amobi, Dutch E Germ, Elysia Crampton, Embaci, FAKA, Full Carnage, HALEEK MAUL, Jesse Hlebo, Johnny Utterback, Lee Jones, MORO, Rabit, Rena Anakwe, Therochelle Moore
Canadian pop virtuoso Jessy Lanza is plotting a 2017 tour of several very-vital cities in North America in support of her very-vital album from last year, Oh No. She’ll also be joined at every stop by another veteran of the 2016 record club, Kate NV, whose Orange Milk breakout Binasu was no slouch, either.
More about: Jessy Lanza, Kate NV
Styles: slushwave
Others: t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者, Nmesh
International Memories spellbinds you to yr mobile device, into a self that you didn’t think you’d become. It’s like a witch’s elixir: slushy with a coy aura; funky & office-like; emergent & bitter.
For example, what will the sunset over this city be a metaphor of? Can you see it, digest it, be empathetic to it, or even embody it there, in that thatness, like that? You can’t, which means you’ve come a long way. The music’s imaginary circumstances have infiltrated your ontic vicinity, nullifying the heroic.
More about: Intl. Debris, Mindspring Memories
From Mila J & nekomimi to Young Dolph & Your Old Droog
With a daunting cascade of releases spewing from the likes of DatPiff, LiveMixtapes, Bandcamp, and SoundCloud, it can be difficult to keep up with the overbearing yet increasingly vital mixtape game. In this column, we aim to immerse ourselves in this hyper-prolific world and share our favorite releases each month. The focus will primarily be on rap mixtapes — loosely defined here as free (or sometimes free-to-stream) digital releases — but we’ll keep things loose enough to branch out if/when we feel it necessary.
More about: Azarias, Denmark Vessey, Don Trip, Doppelganger, DRXQUINNX, luvfexxx, Mila J, nekomimi, Starlito, Wiki, Young Dolph, Your Old Droog
Styles: ambient, minimalism, dreamwork, the joy of boredom
Others: Basinski, Benjamin, Betty Draper, 2 or 3 choses… at 1/4 speed
Let’s be old-fashioned and think of slowness. Still, we should be sufficiently contemporary so as not to be unmoored and find ourselves adrift amongst never-experienced nostalgias. To accomplish this, let us consider speed first.
More about: Pinkcourtesyphone, Richard Chartier
mothertongue.m3u, the “when dictation sings” poetic, ambient-beat, post-nightcore release by Rachika S (production, guitar, mixing) and Biki Zoom (words), has been out for a brilliant minute, and it’s been playing on repeat for me most of today. Streaming below these few sentences is the full stream for the release, which is comparable to the works of Elysia Crampton, Amnesia Scanner, and Quantum Natives when they were incorporating lost prose in their works.
No offense to classic American pop songwriting team Hal David/Burt Bacharach, but — given today’s tense and uneasy sociopolitical climate — what the world needs now ISN’T “love, sweet love.” It’s fucking Oxbow.
Thankfully, the long-running, experimental (and often somewhat confrontational) Bay area hardcore group are happy to oblige (“happy” being a relative term).
More about: Oxbow
Tabs Out is an all-cassette podcast that’s been documenting the prolific tape underground with joyful obsession and humorous expertise since 2012. Tiny Mix Tapes has teamed with Tabs Out for a show called Laser Focus, in which tape aficionados/fetishists Mike Haley, Dave Doyen, and Joe B hone in on a specific label or artist. Check out the archive here.
More about: Andreas Brandal, Cenote Glow, Glass Frog, Maharadja Sweets, Mike Nigro, Nigro, Primitive Fiction, Shingles
Experimental provocateur Graham Lambkin isn’t resting on his laurels after earning a five-star TMT review of his latest solo album, Community.
More about: Graham Lambkin
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