Thavius Beck brought us a free mixtape recently, via the typically awesome Plug Research label. Titled Symphony Of Spheres, it’s a collection of fifteen of his favorite unreleased beats, rife with perfectly tweaked vocal samples and jazzy undertones. Beck cuts his samples nearly to oblivion, requiring nothing short of virtuosic production chops to reassemble them into something coherent, let alone something this groovy and engaging.
Blending Brainfeeder-esque experimental material with a slightly more straight-ahead rhythmic sensibility to keep it somewhat accessible (emphasis in that sentence on ‘slightly’), and often using tooth-rattling bass tones (the ultra-dramatic “See Him Fighting, Dancing, Prancing” sounds like Daedelus remixing Starkey) to drive the point home, Thavius Beck’s beats are cinematic and fully developed- every single one on this tape plays longer than the roughly two minutes they actually span.
Stream the tape below and head to Plug Research to download.
Man,I’m listening to “Symphony…” already 2h and I must say that you did nice work here.