Digitalcasm Daily Play #43

4 Mo' [allday] by ₱αlåū

About this artist

₱αlåū, aka Jay Lieutenant, aka Jamie Lloud Taylor, is a talented triphop-slash-lofi beatmaker and producer out of the UK.

bandcamp  -  youtube  -  soundcloud

Why this is good

Any track that starts with a cascade of laser sounds from the get go is okay in my book.  4 Mo, is as chill as it gets.  ₱αlåū has written in a great atmospheric piano part, and a ton ambient fuzz to glue everything together in to a nice and fully realized soundscape.   4 mo sits in that special sweetspot where there are just enough extra odds and ends to make the track come to life.  However;  anything more would be superflous, anything less would leave this track hollow and lacking in some way.  Great work.

More soon.

Digitalcasm Daily Play #21

Megablast  by Baconhead

About these guys

UK Duo, Autobee and Ebola are producers, performers of "Scifi beats to confuse your brain."  Mostly their music is an extremely well produced mixed bag of great sounds from every weird electronic genre in one place.  And it's damn good.
Website  -  Facebook  -  Soundcloud  -  Beatport  -  Turbo Loaded Beat Tape  

Why I like this

This piece of musical badassery is part of a beattape called Turbo Loaded.  Yes.  I said tape.  As in this song was released on cassette, in 2011.  It's track four on side B.  It was also available free along with their Astro Sludge EP.

Megablast will get in your brain, and stay there.  The entire excerpt is based around a 12/8 riff with some pretty basic drums that gets repeated over and over for the entirety of it's one minute and 55 second length.  The track is peppered with all sorts of great laser sounds and lo-fi sounding scifi things underneath.  What's amazing is that Megablast comes off sounding incredibly analog (if that's even a way that I can describe it).  Everything sounds run through well. . . a tape, . .  and the final result is something that has warm and organic polish, even though we're being assaulted with Nintendo sounds.  And it's so good.

See you tomorrow.