Album: SAILORWAVE by マクロスMACROSS 82-99

 

This new one from the good folks at FORTUNE500 makes-the-grade; vapor with style and atmosphere. To download, jump to the Bandcamp page and find a link that says "mirror".

EP: WiToWMaKeR "Where Are"

Witowmaker is a recording project of Chris Danko, of Religious Girls and a half-dozen other projects (including TOO DEEP, blogged here yesterday). Where Are is lush ambient/experimental music, and a free download from AMDISCS. Definitely worthy, the sound quality is rich--nothing lo-fi about it---and the tracks hold up well to repeated listening. Download the zip from HERE.

New Artist: TOO DEEP

I followed a link on Facebook and found TOO DEEP  last week, to my delight. The Soundcloud page was new--only a few followers, zero comments, and little information beyond "a collaboration between two special artists", and yet this stuff was hotter than fuck, and clearly not the work of  beginners. It's not often I hear tracks that make me run to my computer to make a blog post; this stuff rocked-to-the-max.

While I ruminated on this post, the lovely Mishka beat me to the punch with their post, which revealed the identities of these 'special artists', who turn out to be pretty fucking special indeed. TOO DEEP is a virtual super-group, or at least it's a collaboration between two of the post-witch house underground-internet-music-scene's  brightest stars, both alumnus of Aural Sects and AMDISCS; Chris Danko of the amazing band Religious Girls and his solo-project Witowmaker and Joe Volmer of Party Trash, Police Academy 6 and Blown.

The collaboration turned out to be fruitful, and sounds quite unlike any of their previous work.  TOO DEEP the album is the result,  fourteen tracks of deliciously detailed, impeccably produced, garage-inspired post-dubstep EDM that will please the hordes of UK garage fans and underground net-geeks alike. TOO DEEP is a sort-of Where Were You In '92 for the later '90s; a loving homage to the best of  in UK garage, drum & bass and jungle techno, but filtered through post-witch house sensibilities of  Volmer and Danko.

I've selected a few favorite's for sampling here but I strongly urge downloading the whole zip from their Bandcamp, linked HERE. The individual tracks are downloadable from their Soundcloud, for cherry pickers. 

Single: "Everybody On Drugs (Once More With Feeling)" by MARIE DIOR + Remixes

Marie Dior's new one via Aural Sect is a glowing slab of dark-wave with remixes by anothercountyheard favorites AyGeeTee and Shisa. Click HERE for the free download.

Track: F ∆ U X E Remix of Amateur Takes Control "4207"

I missed this killer remix by  Singapore artist F ∆ U X E of the Singapore post-rock band Amateur Takes Control, which came out in September, but it's never too late. Excellent sound quality.

Track: "Huff" by PHYSICAL THERAPY

"Huff" is the dynamite new track from the amazing producer/remixer known only as Physical Therapy. It's from the new  EP Non-Drowsy, via his new label Allergy Season.

Track: HOWLINGS Remix of Crystal Castle "Transgender"

 

HOWLINGS turns the dreamy  "Transgender" by Crystal Castles into a glowing dubstep track, best heard on a real sound-system. This is a track that needs to be felt, as in 'feel-the-bass', to be fully appreciated. The San Francisco-based producer has many interesting, downloadable tracks on his Soundcloud, and two excellent EPs free on Bandcamp.