Dose // When We Were High LP

Dose is an artist from Columbus, Ohio. I've been following him for a while and he seems to be upping the ante whit this new LP following quick on the heels of his November Moments EP release.
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Sunrise Blend // Juicy Tunes Compilation

I found this free compilation on SC recently and have really been enjoying it. It's one of those where I have never heard of any of the artists. Remember the pseudo-compilations of the acid house era? They affected to be compilations but in fact were the work of a single artist. If this album is the work of 16 different artists, they are at least working from the same play-book. Which is not to say that the tracks sound alike, just that there's a unified stylistic approach.  The compilation is from a French label, based in Lyon, called Juicy Tunes. The whole LP is as good as its' name, and  the beats are fresh and funky. There's a lot of black American R&B and disco sampled, churned through the French-house arsenal of (what I'm calling) glo-fi effects, hence French Glo-fi Disco. It's worth downloading the album. Super upbeat, spring is coming vibes. There is a mediafire link on the Soundcloud page to a zip-file of the LP. They also have a tumblr,  and Falcons, currently riding high with "Nigeria", also very worthwhile.

Blue Boats

 

 Blue Boats is a dude named Oliver Gale who makes music in a room in Bournemouth, Britain. He sent me a track via Soundcloud, and I was pleasantly surprised to find that I was pretty and 'authentic' as far as chillwaves go. There's some twangy folker guitar and and nice layered and falsetto vox, song structure with lyrics but with some side-chain compression and glo-fi tricks. Sort of like Pandit, but more upbeat. Definitely worthy. The Fear is my favorite with Dirty Space Adventure close behind, but all three songs are really good. Yeah, this is exactly the kind of stuff I want to support.

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Prototype Chill Wave Amplifier, 1959

Dr. Joseph Neuman demonstrated his prototype for the Chill Wave Amplifier to an audience of General Electric  executives in 1957. The waves produced by the simple device shown above cooled a 87 degree f. room to 68 degrees f. in just twenty minutes. Neuman claimed the machine worked by harmonizing and resonating with the positive bio-energy in any given room, and spoke of "accumulations of standing orgone waves". 

Predictably, the free-energy based concept was locked away by GE under a number of different patents. It might have remained hidden had not the technology leaked. It first surfaced on the revolutionary Beach Boys single Good Vibrations, said to have been recorded entirely in rooms conditioned by the Chill Wave Amplifier.

HOODCATS // MAPZZZ17

Apparently Shortcircles and James & Evander make up this chillwave super-group.
The EP is only three tracks and they're all good. They call it all kind of different names but I call it chillwave.
They live or work in Oakland, California. MAPZZZ is a fine label with all many free EPs of a similar calibre on their Bandcamp.
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Birkwin Jersey // Think or Smile

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Lee "Scratch" Perry // I Am The God Of Fire