Digitalcasm Daily Play #40

Automaton Teori by Head Tripper

About this artist

Head Tripper is a part time producer of ambient, glitch, and abstract music, from Brussels, Belgium.

Soundcloud

Why I like this

Automaton Teori is a really nice glitchy ambient filled piece of music with lots of suggestive sounds, a catchy drum beat, and and a sparse melody.  This could be the soundtrack to a precisely executed heist including ziplines, glass cutters, and lots of specific hand gestures for communicating with the team of ex pats for hire. What I like most about Automaton Teori is how Head Tripper handles the pads.  The choral, distant, slightly orchestral sounding tones layer in to unexpected, and dissonant washes of sound that seem to constantly and effortlessly morph back in to unexpected, and slightly beautiful resolutions.  There is an excellent sense of tension and release without the tones and sounds ever sounding like random noisem or like generic progressions.  I'm reminded of Ligeti a little when I hear this track. Definitely worth a listen!

More soon.

Digitalcasm Daily Play #6

Song of the Livid Drawn Outside The Lines of Reason by enoruoS (Sourone)


update 11/28/12:  Song of the Livid was the working title of this track, and has been renamed by the creator.

About this guy

enoruoS is where Sourone a.k.a. Michal Kalinowski dumps his "melodic, ambient, and breaky" sounds on soundcloud.  Even with the brilliantly obvious name in reverse not unlike Spacetime Continuum's album Emit Ecaps, and later Remit Recaps, it still took me a while to track down Michal's (or is it Michael's?) original profile, and eventually his facebook page.

He hails from Poland and is a producer of IDM, psychedelia, glitch electronica, experimental, ambient, micro break beats. . . . .and well you get the idea.  This is the type of music where anyone who ends up listening to a lot of his work will probably start throwing the word pioneer around when describing him and his music to others.  He does a little bit of everything, and he does it really, really well from what I've heard so far.

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Digitalcasm Daily Play #4

Butter by 7 Minutes Dead

About this guy

7 Minutes Dead is the moniker for Alex Gulikers of Dallas, Texas.   Alex is a prolific producer of EDM with 41 tracks and counting on soundcloud.
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Why I like this

Butter is a song that I can't help but like more every time I hear it.  When I sat down to write this post and actually try to put in to words why this track is so good, my description quickly spiraled in to a wordy overanalysis.  There are some  really unique elements and transitions that do make this track special, (like at 1:36), but diving deep in to the nooks and crannies would be a disservice to just how damn fun this track is as a whole.  So, give it a listen and find out for yourself what makes this great.

Have a great weekend!  I'm heading up to San Francisco for the weekend for a wedding.  I'll see you guys again on Tuesday with a new post!