PURP IN DA DRANK // XXYYXX & GRANT

This 16 year-old producer from Orlando has lit up the internet with his collab with Giraffage, “Even Though”. His latest post on Bandcamp is a free download (unlike the Giraffage tune, which is decidedly not-free), a take on Waka Flocka Flame’s “Hard in the Paint”. This one’s all about the beat, spare but definitely poppin’. Another Orlando producer, GRANT has a different take on the same tune, keeping more of the lyrics (and absurdity) of the original. Both tracks exhibit the ‘street’ sensibility of TRAP House – a new micro-genre. There’s an awareness of the absurdity – that’s part of its’ appeal. Listen / download below.

New Animal Collective Single

SizzleBird // Chillstep

The SizzleBird has landed! It seems like only a few months since this new London based electronic music artist was sending me unsolicited tracks of some fairly standard drum & bass tracks, but they showed promise. He’s now mastered his game and with these new tracks can truly be said ‘to have arrived’. Both of these tracks define the sound of today’s chillstep: the marriage of chillwave and dubstep. Dude is a classically trained violinist with years of serious music study at London schools. That might explain his very quick journey from obscurity to hotness. He also inexplicably calls himself Ot Moruno Bird. SizzleBird is a prolific Soundcloud post-er with many free downloads. His latest EP is Lady of the Lake. KO KO - So Strange (SizzleBird Remix) [Free Download] by SizzleBird Blue Eyes [Free] by SizzleBird

d'Eon // Music For Keyboards Vol. 2

Variation XIII by Hippos In Tanks Variation XIV by Hippos In Tanks


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WEST IN DUST // Various Artists

New compilation featuring Ra Cailum and shortcircles.

WAMOO PAPEZ // We Float EP

I don't even know what to say about this except that it sounds new and different and good. The whole EP of 8 tracks is good, and it's free on Bandcamp. Listen / download.

Daydrop // Spiral Summer MP3

I saw the term ‘post-chillwave’ on Hipster Runoff in a recent post. While I think it’s appropriate to speak of post-dubstep,  chillwave isn’t nearly over. At some point the meme will be ‘played’, IE its’ creative energy will be exhausted, but we are nowhere near that point, as evidenced by this piece from Azusa Suga, "a college student who loves nice music and cute girls". Listen below, and grab the free MP3. He now records under the name Shortcake Collage Tape.

From Tokyo.

Daydrop - Spiral Summer (Finale From MARS) by Shortcake Collage Tape