"A mash of enveloping synths and driving percussion that channels the exuberant melody at the root of South African folk." This is, Flashlight. After the massive success of Bonobo's 2013 release of The North Borders, fans across the globe, myself included, have been been itching for their next fix of an acidic, down-tempo, electronic narcotic! Released as a single for his forthcoming EP, The Flashlight, Bonobo takes us back to what he does best. This is but a taste of what is yet to come from the Ninja Tune master! A true mastery of airy melodies, wistful synths, and bouncy guitar strums. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Flashlight.
I've been meaning to post about the incredibly talented Australian beat-maker known as Flume for a while now ever since I got hold of his self-titled debut album near the beginning of this year, and now that he has just released a brand new remix, here is my opportunity!
This guy is seriously making big waves in the electronic music industry, especially in his home country of Australia where his album managed to debut at number one last year. When listening to the man's music though its not difficult to see why. He has a unique fresh sound which combines a multitude of influences, ranging from hip hop to soul to trance to electro to dance and on and on... all of which culminate in his unique amalgamations that have a dreamy and soulful, sometimes chilled and trippy, sometimes hard-hitting glitch-hop techno vibe. The man of the hour when it comes to the contemporary electronic genres that end in 'wave' or 'step' in my opinion. My words probably fail me at this point, so take a listen for yourself to his brand new remix of Disclosure's You & Me, which Flume likes to call 'orchestral crunkwave':
Wow I know right?! After you're done picking up the fragments of your brain splattered around you from that mind-blowing goodness, download the track through Mp3juices.com here.
Then after you're finished doing that check out my two personal favourite tracks from his album below: On Top feat. T.Shirt by Flume
Oh man, I think I got the Flume fever, this guys gonna be big, watch this space!
BONUS:
As a bonus, a couple of Aussies made a free EP in which they mix Flume instrumentals with acapellas from none other than the late great Biggie Smalls a.k.a Notorious BIG! How's that for a combo you ask? Pretty damn decent I say, or in the words of Biggie himself, "its all good baby baby!". Check that out below:
