Cloud Currency EP

A melodic trap beat that took me a lot of time (no pun intended) to get right.  Finally finished it.  Gotta give a major shout out to @guttabeatzjuugin for another incredibly unique synth.  Go check out the original song here https://soundcloud.com/guttabeatzjuugin/all-one-iii?in=guttabeatzjuugin/sets/before-i-look-back-gutta-beatz-juugin its such a great listen. After check out the rest of his music b/c the dude is always cooking up gold.  Leave ya boy some feed back and Be good. 

Clockψork

My first release from upcoming solo album. Produced and engineered by Space of MileHigh NW!

Forever



<a href='https://theartistunion.com/tracks/e05cb2'>Download for free on The Artist Union</a>

Download

Space Cadet

Walk Alone

Kuedo returns to Planet Mu with his long awaited second album ’Slow Knife’. It’s been five years since his acclaimed debut ‘Severant’ and time has proved it prescient; its futuristic trap influence is now ubiquitous. ‘Slow Knife‘ seems to return to where ‘Severant’ left off, but with the intricate sound design of last year’s haunting EP ‘Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence’ subsumed into the compositions, making them more exacting and beautifully crafted.

Between albums Kuedo has been working as a sound designer and composer for hire and the application of intent and widescreen rigour that commercial work requires has definitely found its way into the new album. ‘Slow Knife’ has the subtlety, ambition and pacing of a brilliant soundtrack - a sense of an album of scenes, that easily lends itself to an impressionistic narrative. But, as with ‘Severant’, the title suggests relationship unease, with the slow knife being a metaphor for the building resentment in any close relationship.

‘Slow Knife’ is almost two albums; the first half, according to Kuedo, invokes the seduction of the city, taking the music of Michael Mann’s ‘Manhunter’ as a cue, with the latter half being inspired by the bloody starscapes and voodoo wilderness of films such as ‘Angel Heart’, ‘Night Of The Hunter’ and more recently the ‘True Detective’ series. Both halves of the album are also in thrall to Mica Levi’s inspiring ‘Under The Skin’ soundtrack, especially in the turbulence of the mid-section. 

The songs of the albums first half are synthetic and seductive, a gelatinous veil with shades of the pseudo-sophisticated trance of Enigma, of all things, underpinned with dusky unsettling shadows and atmosphere. ‘In Your Sleep’, perhaps surprisingly, features the vocals of Hayden Thorpe from Wild Beasts, who settles his dark, whispered vocals into the moonlit shadowy atmosphere. ‘Floating Forest’ is the first track to allow back some of Kuedo’s experimentation with the Southern rap template, which he explored before it became commonplace, with echoed drum splashes and a sinister repetitive motif, ending with a haunting growl.

The second half of the album enters wilderness territory with ‘Approaching’s slow descending notes, before ‘Broken Fox - Black Hole’ throws the record into the cathartic darkness, as undulating chords play hide and seek with riotous reeds and scratchy strings grown from challenging collaborations with cello player Koenraad Ecker (from Lumisokea). ‘Breaking The Surface’ shivers and coils, before metal and strings dominate while ‘In Your Skin’ feels like being lost in a vast hinterland before ‘Warmer Light’ introduces some memories of sunshine, with its plucked bassline and spiralling dub. ‘Halogen Light’ opens with the sound of crickets and a clear piano, cleansing the soul before ‘Lathe’ brings things down to earth with a short, yet powerful coda.

Slow Knife

Kuedo - In Your Sleep (ft. Hayden Thorpe) from 'Slow Knife' released on 14th October

Cloud Currency 2016

West Coast Pop

Crazy Love

Future Rich

Produced by Coast Modern
Mixed by Jon Castelli
Mastered by Joe LaPorta
Art by Daiana Ruiz

LYRICS:
I was shaking hands with the face of death in the Amazon
I was in a trance tryna catch my breath but I couldn't run
When it came around I was on the ground, blood in my mouth 
And I realized the whole damn time I've been missing out

Oh we never gonna go back to the way it was
Oh and we're never gonna go back to the way we was
Tell me if you wanna roll with the rest of us
Cause oh it's never gonna go back to the way it was

Did you get your fill? Have you seen it all? Have you had enough? 
It's a jagged pill you been choking on, you gotta cough it up
Ain't it fine to forget your mind when you ride the wave
Summertime is only one more breath away, just one more breath away

Oh we never gonna go back to the way it was
Oh and we're never gonna go back to the way we was
Tell me if you wanna roll with the rest of us
Cause oh it's never gonna go back to the way it was

I don't need to know what we're heading for
Babe, I'm not looking back
Listen to your feet on the wooden floor
Don't need nothing else but that
You know you don't have to take your past mistakes into the dawn
So drop off your bags, don't break your back, we're gonna keep moving on 

West Coast Pop

Cloud Currency

Recent comments

Thee Hooly Gun

Related tracks