Saturday, July 17, 2021

Back again. Comment requests.

 I'm posted up w/ a broken ankle so I'm gonna unload some rare music for the first time since 2016. Obviously I've accumulated a ton since then. My interests have shifted a lot, but this will always be a place to find super out there shit.

As the title says, comment any requests on this post...anything where the links don't work since I've went thru like 3 or 4 filesharing sites over the duration of this blog. Also anything you wanna hear in full and think I might have, based on podcasts or individual tracks or whatever.

For now, here are a few artists I've been digging recently whose work you should check out (and pay for)

Jak3 the Trashman - Outsider to the max. His music has shifted from bizarre collages of half-finished ideas to brilliantly hazy concept pieces, sort of like a less pretentious, more focused James Ferraro. I love his early albums like 'Hellworld,' they turn phonk/Memphis revival into surrealist art. His newest stuff feel like what Modest Mouse would have made in the early 90's on a steady diet of Esham, ambient dNb and Motocross.

Ratscanner (aka Wheeler aka Slerk aka Deadzone) - Another producer who took ideas from Soundcloud phonk and made it his own world. I can't think of better music for a toxic, smog-ridden post-pandemic world. Instead of proper albums or beat tapes, he releases music in 15-20 min chunks of beats with recurring ideas and melodies, complete with bizarre artwork influenced by early PC games. I'm pretty partial to 'Ghost Brain' and 'Grifter's Path.'

Bloody Fist Records - 90's/00's hardcore techno label from Australia. If I had found this music in HS, I probably would've abandoned rock music altogether. Although all the artists have their own sound, it's basically like lo-fi, nihilist Prodigy with power electronics aesthetics and a really mean sense of humor. Some of the best and craziest EDM out there.

Delroy Edwards - Ron Perlman's son makes really sick lo-fi house music on old analog equipment. This is the timeline I was supposed to be in for sure.

Chain Reaction - Ok, so some of this might be hard to actually find and 'pay for' and I certainly...borrowed some of it. But it's all good! Super minimalist ambient techno that really puts ya in a place.

Cerberus Click - Producer collective that shifts from Memphis-influenced ambient-rap to power electronics and soundscapes to blissed-out dance tracks, sometimes with vocalists, sometimes fully instrumental. 'Ana Massacre' is the hit but 'Demo (Full Tape Rip)' is maybe the best representation of their current sound.

Dealers of God - Super weird outsider rap/psytrance/new age wildness from Australia. They have a really strange sense of humor and a really strange set of influences.


That's it for now...'real' posts w/ download links coming soon.

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