Grime like it’s… grime. Vibe, flow, beats, bass, rhymes. No annoying shit, all good shit.
Wiley – Godfather
Actress – AZD
Also a wandering, through techno to experimental ambient soft noises.
Sidenote: the last Gonjasufi record is named after an alternate reality perception thing, and this Actress album writes in the press release about “a chrome aspect journey into a parallel world”. Hm.
Gonjasufi – Mandela Effect
This spaceship still travelling. Trip and hop and experimental electronics.
FJAAK – FJAAK
Technoid music from Berlin. Not all four-by-four though, some broken beats, ambient textures too, but synths and underground electronic vibe all around. Nice find.
Ash Walker – Echo Chamber
Triphop with a pintch of jazzy sound, dub echos, you know, head music thing. 2017 deluxe edition comes with 4 extra tracks.
Forest Swords – Compassion
And then this. Beyond words.
Marc Romboy – Voyage De La Planète
This is heavily emotional. Or emotions are heavy on this one. Seems like a space opera concept but often it is rather a rollercoaster through your own soul.
Syd Arthur - Apricity
I’ve been stashing this one for a long time without posting here. I re-listened it a few times to have a better idea how to put it. It is psychedelic rock, but very accessible, kind of pop-flavoured but in a good sense. There is this thing like I have heard many of these tunes before—probably they are playing on the twists and hooks of the genre pretty well.
Bracken – High Passes
Diverse electronic music on hiphop speed, with mostly broken beats, basslines, wondering and moody melodies. Could say it’s triphop.
Those Who Walk Away – The Infected Mass
Minimalistic ambient with a very disturbing concept using conversation recordings from cockpits of planes that are about to crash. This is the definition of haunting music.