Month: August 2009

Bitbasic – Sprinkling Rainbows {mtk213}

Artist: BitBasic
Title: Sprinkling Rainbows
Label: Monotonik
Catalog #: mtk213
Release Date: 2009/08/09

After his first release in Monotonik on 2007, the ‘Grating Rainbows’ EP, we are absolutely delighted to present a long in-development full album — ‘Sprinkling Rainbows’ from the UK resident Bitbasic, whose super-funky drill and bass attitude to jazzy electronica makes it one of our favorite label releases of the last few years.

In a similar fashion to earlier Monotonik releases like Aleksi Virta’s album, ‘Grating Rainbows’ cuts up the jazzy breaks with the electronic in entirely alluring ways, with ‘Flannel’ a great initial example of the headnodding, sometimes brain-scrambling stylings. There’s even tremendously evocative Bent-style spaced-out melodies of tracks like ‘Blueish’.

With a full album to choose from, you can yoyo easily between the super fast, funky breaks of ‘Realization’ and the sinewave bleeps of ‘Monos’, before it all ends up with an entirely unexpected, glorious funk attack, as a super-chilled cover of ‘Ain’t No Sunshine’ starts going terribly, terribly wrong half-way through. And it’s awesome.

Once again, thanks to Bitbasic for letting us put out this album under a Creative Commons license, and we hope you dig it and check out his site for his latest gigs, EPs, single tracks, and other goodness.

Credits:
pic by bitbasic associates!

Tracklist:
01 – Strafe
02 – Flannel
03 – Things Being Fried
04 – Blueish
05 – Zero G In Fluff
06 – Realization
07 – Make
08 – Get Me Out
09 – Monos
10 – Sprinkling Rainbows
11 – Yellowish
12 – Damaged Beyond Repair
13 – Ain’t No Sunshine

Artwork:
Front Cover

Additional Links:
[Bandcamp]

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 US)

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Valzi – I Nvr <3 U {pj007}

Artist: Valzi
Title: I Nvr ❤ U
Label: Petite&Jolie
Catalog #: pj007
Release Date: 2009/08/07

Valzi – I Nvr

Following Julian Winter’s release which received a warm welcome from you, our cute followers, here is a release from Valzi who takes influences from deep in the chip music scene, as Valzi actually comes from the tracking scene, inspiring it with melancholic chords and growing melodies and finally shaping an ambiguous feeling between sorrowness and “joie de vivre,” as we often say in France.

Behind all these clicky beats, taping the time passing by, and these mellow but cute harmonies, there is a real letter of apology, written in notes and surely delivered the cutest way ever, delicately slipped into a pink envelope or even better, inside of its companion cover designed by no one other than Postics, a great illustrator we met at Rouen in October for a very nice exhibition of his work.

ps: We also strongly recommend you check the work of Postics!

Tracklist:
01 – Crush At Second Evaluation
02 – I Like To Watch You Sleeping
03 – Than Anyone Else Has Before
04 – I Nvr ❤ U Part 1
05 – I Nvr ❤ U Part 2
06 – Why Won’t You Look At Me
07 – I Nvr ❤ U Part 3
08 – Denial
09 – Vampiric Delusion
10 – How She Coped
11 – I Nvr ❤ U (Original Chip Mix)

Artwork:
Front Cover
Coverart By Postics

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License:
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)

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