SOCK DROPS VOL.V

Lost Composure

Static Brain

Introducing COSMIC RESIDENTS v. 1, the first in an ongoing compilation series from Cosmic Resonance Records. This series will showcase emerging talent from Toronto’s underground creative electronic music scene. 

This first edition features local favourites and Cosmic Resonance residents Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza), Korea Town Acid and Hemingway along with (and making their vinyl and Cosmic Resonance debut) Body Butter, WeTurnToRed and Smoke & Shadows.

On the A-side, Hemingway kicks things off with Astralnauts, a deep, dubbed out boogie breakbeat burner dedicated to explorers of the astral plane featuring fellow label don Chris Evans on rhythm guitar. Radiant Aura Faculty (aka Raf Reza) takes us even deeper with the mystical Cid Pit Riddim, a slamming 707 acid bender sure to melt any dance floor. Things get slippery with Body Butter’s debut single ‘Lights In The Hallway’, a timeless operatic pop opus featuring Neil Rankin (aka Burt Sugar), Chris Evans (aka Mr. Bliss) and Hemingway behind the board. On the flip side, things heat up with Shamanta Chandran’s project WeTurnToRed, featuring the progressive modular techno odyssey Warm Winter an escape from Toronto’s long and tumultuous blizzards. Emerging from the Mahogani Forest, Korea Town Acid reinterprets Hemingway’s emotional ode to the jazz aesthetic Blue Notes with her trademark cerebral rhythms and a masterful bassline that elevates the original to new heights. Closing it off, we have an amazing collaboration between Curtis Clark (aka Smoke of Lab.our Music) & Em Zy (member of Nikki Fierce) called Smoke & Shadows with their stellar debut single Convincing Thoughts that features Em Zy’s hazy vocal emanations amidst a backdrop of mystical reverberations and a dark, powerful groove.

Release dates for Vinyl & Digi TBA! 

Available soon through Honest Jon's Distribution.

TRACKLIST:
A1. Astralnauts - Hemingway
A2. Cid Pit Riddim - Radiant Aura Faculty
A3. Lights In The Hallway - Body Butter
B1. Warm Winter - WeTurnToRed
B2. Blue Notes (Korea Town Acid Remix) - Hemingway
B3. Convincing Thoughts - Smoke & Shadows

Cosmic Residents Vol. 1 - Various Artists - Preview

The skeleton for this beat started as a 20 minute challenge. My friend was to complete his paragraph , and I was to create as much of a beat as  I possibly could in 20 minutes. I naturally threw together samples. I ended up seeing something in this 20 minute skeleton, and I did some adjusting last minute at 3:30 am to see what it could potentially be... I'm liking the direction.

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This a demo called wooze that I am working on!

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