I’ve started making music under the alias hellhole

the alias may be temporary as i eventually wantt o move into less dark stuff

but check out my shit for now anyway! It’s like dark instrumental hip-hop

http://soundcloud.com/hellhole/i-see-you-completed

Yeasayer has a new album coming out, August 21st. Gonna be called Fragrant World.

Since their first album All Hour Cymbals they went in a more electro-pop direction on their latest record, Odd Blood. Judging by the track “Henrietta,” they’ve gone even more into the electronic end of the spectrum; check that shiet here

At The Drive-In - Enfilade

still not sure if I really like this. They really impressed me at coachella but post-hardcore really rubs me the wrong way sometimes.

When confronted with drum and bass music, most people (except the British) seem to have a basic understanding of it and know the genre by a few key albums that have reached mainstream success, such as Timeless, New Forms and more recently Pendulum’s highly accessible Hold Your Colour. What they might not know is that the underground scene has always been very prevalent in the junglist community and that Bay B Kane is revered among its enthusiasts. This LP was released on Junglist Manifesto in June of 2011 as a follow up or perhaps a companion to his April LP Brick Jungle, which in turn was the return from a 13 year hiatus. Junglist Manifesto Recordings is a drum and bass net label that so far only has a couple of releases by unknown producers under its belt, and there is also not a lot of info to be found about the label on the web.

Now, onto the actual music, my first impression when listening to this was definitely that is has quite an old school sound, that is not found in a lot of modern dnb (especially in modern incarnations of the bastardizations “liquid funk” and “neuro funk”). Big focus on bass lines that work in symbiosis with chopped up amen breaks, topped off with pads or ambient samples and sometimes (mostly female) soulful vocals or -samples. Jungle Love doesn’t feature especially chopped up or varied beat patterns on most of the tunes, but instead keeps the beats interesting by switching up the samples and effects used every few bars, almost before the listener has time to take them in fully. The straight breaks make the album much friendlier to those unfamiliar with the sound, but also lower the re-listen value for those who are.

Most of the tunes on the album have a similar, very atmospheric vibe to them, which makes Jungle Love seem thought through unlike many other albums in the genre, which essentially just are compilations of singles that weren’t good enough to get their own releases. The tracks are all above six minutes in length, and “Florescent” even reaches ten. I should admit that one or two of these tracks got me thinking that they probably should’ve ended before they did, but most of them really kept my interest to hear the next bar all the way through, mostly thanks to this switching up of the breaks that I mentioned in the previous passage. The track “One For My Enemies” is a stand out track that features ragga vocals and goes against the vibe established by the rest of the tunes. I feel like it could’ve been quite a good interlude and a temporary shift from the theme, but its seven minute length rather makes me think that it actually might be a tune thrown in there just to annoy his enemies.

Overall, I’m very fond of this album myself, and I especially like how the long lengths of the tunes is used by Bay B Kane to expand the ideas to their fullest extent, instead of being filled up of minutes of just repeating bars. The drums and the bass work together greatly on every tune and together with the sweet vibes they definitely make Jungle Love a strong and worthwhile LP.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?yybkca2ioa65r11

Buy: http://www.junglistmanifesto.com (only digitally released)

Written by henke aka !GoldiEiyWs

which i had tickets to

Conor Oberst’s punk / emo project, Desaparecidos is going on tour, and apparently even have some new material. Conor Oberst as Bright Eyes is decent, even if a bit childish, but this tour might be something to watch out for. Check out this track.