Little Hours Ft. Baths

Part of Ghostly Swim 2, courtesy of Adult Swim and Ghostly International. Out December 23, 2014 as a free download via Adult Swim.

Download here: http://www.adultswim.com/music/ghostlyswim2/

Free Download

Shigeto - Tide Pools

Machinedrum - Safed
Featuring Angelica Bess

Vapor City Archives
Ninja Tune Records 2014


Vapor City Archives

Safed

​UK soundbender Emika has already had a storied career. Her accolades include sound designing at Native Instruments, releasing two albums on seminal leftist label Ninja Tune, collaborating with Marcel Dettman and taking on David Bowie. For her first sojourn outside of the watchful eye of Ninja Tune, Emika is set to release DREI on her own Emika Records on May 4. In preparation for the release, Emika's put together the following mix exclusively for THUMP.

TRACKLIST AT THUMP

Emika "DREI" Pre-Album Mix

Let me take you on a quest.

Download the 4 track E.P here: https://arcadianuk.bandcamp.com/album/quest

Quest

'Fold' is a track made during the recording process for 'Joined Ends'

The Dorian Concept album 'Joined Ends' is now available to buy:

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Joined Ends

Dorian Concept - 'Fold'

Lcrp - Tidy

Year Two

Waking Up With Clapping Head Syndrome

Nice easy roller with a rolling breakbeat

Riffraff

Pre-order the new album 'It Is What It Is', released 3 April on Brainfeeder: https://thundercat.lnk.to/it-is-what-it-isSo

Thundercat
Apocalypse
BF040

1. Tenfold
2. Heartbreaks + Setbacks
3. The Life Aquatic
4. Special Stage
5. Tron Song
6. Seven
7. Oh Sheit It’s X
8. Without You
9. Lotus and the Jondy
10. Evangelion
11. We’ll Die
12. A Message for Austin / Praise the Lord / Enter the Void

Forever a wildcat and wild card, Los Angeles’ bassist/songwriter/vocalist Stephen Bruner, aka Thundercat, is impossible to tame artistically. A true master of his craft, he can be found playing bass with Flying Lotus, Erykah Badu and Suicidal Tendencies, in the same breath as performing live with the likes of Stanley Clarke, Snoop Dogg or the Red Hot Chili Peppers. His 2011 solo debut (The Golden Age of Apocalypse, co-produced by Flying Lotus) created an equally genre-blurring enigma of indie rock and jazz, with a touch of electronica.

On his second album, Apocalypse, Thundercat pairs up with executive producer Flying Lotus to pull the veil back and reveal the simple truths of the cycle of life, for all its beauty and destruction. An album about loss and rebuilding, trying to gain something back, and capturing that moment of clarity where one finally finds feet back on the ground again. Bringing a fusion of pop, soul, electronica, prog rock and funk into an unexplored dimension, the album slowly descends and tunnels to the core of what it takes to grasp peace, at a time that it seems most far.

From the deep, rumbling entrance of ‘Tenfold,’ each of the 12 tracks coalesce with Thundercat’s signature bass, his riffs and basslines gliding sky high to meet Fly Lo’s astral touch. Bruner’s vocals and harmonies also soar with open honesty, rising above heartbreak with uplifting odes to love and companionship (‘Tron Song’) and wise mantras to live by (‘Special Stage’). The album plays as a comedy and tragedy at the same time, delicately addressing tracks like ‘We’ll Die’ while bringing the all-out cosmic funk of the anthemic ‘Oh Sheit, it’s X.’

As heavy as the lyrical weight may be, the divine musicality of Flying Lotus, and Thundercat’s instrumental collaborations, brings light. Navigating dense rhythms and intense harmonic progressions, the LP pushes through the hypnotic strands of ‘The Life Aquatic,’ the analogue explorations of ‘Lotus & The Jondy’ (recorded in Adrian Younge’s studio with drummer Thomas Pridgen), and Thundercat and Lotus’ prog rock jam ‘Seven,’ a spontaneous improv recording that organically materialized in less than an hour. It’s no wonder the kindred pair often refer to their freeform sessions as “going to space.” Continually pushing tracks to their furthest point, they take the listener to another place completely – somewhere beyond time, a place that transcends this realm. As the aforementioned track ‘Seven’ (named for its challenging time signature) asks, “Can you hear the sounds of infinity?”

Thundercat - Lotus and the Jondy

A productive 2014 saw 5th Spear produce and publish over 40 tracks, which filtered into hist first album ‘Year One’ released early in 2015. A mix of lush synths and downtempo beats alongside chiming electronica sparking resemblances to the likes of Flying lotus, Gold panda and Bonobo, with the warm retro-flavoured luminosity of Luke Abott and the spacier end of the Warp Records catalogue. The release of 'Imperfections', saw 5th Spear being featured at noted music events such as Hub and Sŵn Festival, being described as - "forward-thinking head music with a dayglo pop heart.” 

5th Spear has successfully continued to headline Cardiff venues throughout 2016, as well as sharing a stage with Brainfeeder’s Lapalux earlier in the year. His second album ‘Year Two’ will be released at the start of October.