lotusblau

A wide-ranging collection of productions, mixes, and recordings backed by an unconventional release strategy that enhances your experience of the project. The music and sound scattered across the online radio network is as rewarding as it is intriguing, with forays through Peruan cumbia, modern classical and a range of productions from Other People associates. Highlight “15″ decontextualizes classic hip-hop a capellas over avant-garde orchestral and ambient constructions, a juxtaposition that feels at once simple and sophisticated.

The songwriter behind defining tracks from Usher, Justin Bieber, and Chris Brown makes R&B that is nonconformist in a genre that now gravitates towards darker, druggier words and sounds. Here, Bellinger modernises turn-of-the-millennium tendencies, maintaining the lyrical emotion of past R&B over a trap-infused instrumental template that is distinctly contemporary.

A diverse and textured collection of ambient, house, and beatdown sketches. Shrouded in grey, these sound-sculptures unfold to reveal muffled, disparate elements that crackle and hiss under layers of white noise.

Future uses autotune as an instrument, percolating mournfully over jittering instrumentals from Metro Boomin’ and Southside, predominantly. Lyrically Future continues his descent into addiction and excess, echoed in the beats’ somber, sorrowful tone.

A glowing, pad-driven techno and breakbeat album that takes cues from René Pawlowitz (specifically 2010′s The Traveller) without compromising its own artistic idiosyncrasies.

A sonic collage laden with political commentary and structured around the repetition of lyrics and motifs that explore the complexity of the UK experience as a black man.

Densely layered deep house that blurs the line between Detroit and UK sounds. Dusty yet bursting with colour, Vynehall creates an aural ecosystem that feels rooted in nature.

Complex algorithmic music is programmed then left to carry out a life of its own on this expansive, meandering 4-hour odyssey.

Leeds maintains the humid, organic atmosphere of his previous work while doing away with conventional percussive elements. Hazy, melancholic ambient experiments bubble with personality while maintaining a sense of pace and structure.

Anomalous house and disco with a sense of humour. The Swede’s first LP is melodic and crackling, feeling at times like it was born of another time.

By /u/shitty_watercolour

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