Posts By Graham Major
Jaga Jazzist – Live With Britten Sinfonia
Jaga Jazzist - Live With Britten Sinfonia Ninja Tune: 2013 It is highly doubtful that anyone has ever gone to a Jaga Jazzist show and left saying, “Gee, they could really use a fuller sound.” The veteran Norwegian genre-benders, consisting of…
Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo – Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo
Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo - Yatha Bhuta Jazz Combo All City Records: 2013 Parisian Potholes favorite Onra’s work has historically fallen into one of two categories: sometimes he’s a painstakingly precise sampler who beats his MPC like it owes him money,…
Letherette – Letherette
Letherette - Letherette Ninja Tune: 2013 Versatile, semi-mysterious U.K. production duo Letherette have been releasing a steady stream of strong singles and EPs for the last couple years, with a gradual shift in their emphasis from classic, dusty boom-bap to smooth,…
Lapalux – Nostalchic
Lapalux - Nostalchic Brainfeeder: 2013 After releasing a slew of absolutely killer remixes, a pair of stellar 2012 EPs and a few one-off tracks of his own, Stuart Howard, the prolific young Brit better known as Lapalux, set the bar high…
Lusine – The Waiting Room
Lusine - The Waiting Room Ghostly: 2013 Jeff McIlwain, better known as Lusine, has historically been somewhat bipolar in his productions. Effortlessly oscillating between thumping, European-style techno made for dance floors and glitchy, experimental IDM (emphasis on the ‘I’- some of…
Inc. – No World
Inc. - No World 4AD: 2013 California brothers Andrew and Daniel Aged, collaboratively known as Inc., like to keep it chronologically ambiguous. Their early singles, released as ‘Teen, Inc.’ in 2010, divulged a heavy Prince influence as well as stranger, post-punk tendencies,…
Toro Y Moi – Anything In Return
Toro y Moi - Anything In Return Carpark Records: 2013 For Anything In Return, his third proper full-length as Toro Y Moi, Chaz Bundick told Interview Magazine he was “trying to make a pop record.” That’s a noble aim, a common…
Brian Eno – Lux
Brian Eno - Lux Warp: 2012 Brian Eno is one highly evolved, futuristic dude. The prolific British composer and producer has been at it since the early 1970s, with his influence felt (knowingly or otherwise) by anybody who’s used a synthesizer…
Kirvy – vol.two [Album]
Filipino producer Kirvy put a new collection of bangers up on Bandcamp this week. Titled vol.two, he’s got ambient synth pads and dissociative drums all over the place, anchored by classic a cappellas and just enough boom-bap sensibility to tie…
stacy – Restless [EP]
Eighteen-year-old Portland, Ore. producer stacy explodes onto the scene with Restless. An absolutely blistering debut EP, Restless takes the ‘cloud rap’ sound made (marginally) famous by luminaries like Keyboard Kid to its logical conclusion, with a sparse, gloomy palette loaded…
