Waves to bend

Second Slice

I don’t usually write too much in this space, but this time I had to tell the tale of this track, and working with Marmalade.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Marmalade’s cosmic, wicked style, so when he hit me up for a collaboration I almost did a James Brown split and spilled my coffee. Of course I said yes. The samples he sent over floored me, and I ran with them, sometimes caught up in them deep into the night. I experimented with what he’d sent, working and reworking the samples, and ended up with some interesting mutations based on loose ideas, and basically about a hundred versions of what it all meant. Sometimes what came out was scary, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic and yet funky. I was digging what was happening, but I felt like I couldn’t get an aerial view of the whole thing, and I got bogged down by tunnel vision. I started to feel insecure about the track, that it was too insane or wasn’t going to be up to the standards that I’d set for myself for this collaboration with an artist I admired so much. I put the track down for a while, months in fact. The other day I stumbled across the track again, which I’d tentatively labeled “Why you do this to me, Demi?”, echoing the sentiment of Damien’s mother in The Exorcist. I guess at the time it had felt like all the twists, turns and dead ends were torturing me, and trying to pull the right thing out it all had started to feel like an exorcism. The version I’d found was one of the jazzier ones, and only one of the multitude of attempts I’d made for this track. Listening to it again after all this time let me hear it with fresh ears, and I could see what I’d done in a whole new light. The time away from the track, while certainly too long, had done me good and I was able to hear it without zeroing in and focusing on what I’d thought were faulty details. Feeling better about the whole thing but still apprehensive as to what Marmalade would make of it, I bounced the track back to him and waited, worrying that the reply would simply be, “This shit sucks, Stricknice.” The response I got from him was the exact opposite. He loved it, and with that my last insecurity vanished. So here you go, ladies and gents, the final track, which I’ve retitled here because I have finally beat all those demons that were after me. Maybe next time I’ll be a little better on the front end about keeping the faith and finding the groove. 


Bubble Batter Matters (Stricknice X Marmalade)

Cahoots

Made some music and the music is like so and so blah blah blah...

Erase My Memory Foam

Sir Name: https://soundcloud.com/sir-name-0
Tensor: https://soundcloud.com/tensor-tensor-tensor

---------------- We're proud to bring you- "No, Mad" -the first track off DOWNSTREAM's forthcoming debut album, "Jazz Is.." 

STAY TUNEd for further updates - - thanks for all the support - <3

Tensor X Sir Name- No, Mad [Album: Jazz Is..]

And now for something completely different. We bring the yellowest addition to the crew, with his slightly skewed take on beats, London Yellow, 

Check out more of his work on his soundcloud page:
https://soundcloud.com/londonyellow

Or visit Glasshead.org for similar ruffians making weird art

London Yellow- Valentine's Day Is A Scam [Downstream Exclusive]

Introducing Terrible Calm. The beat makers for all beat makers. The master that kills everything mediocre.

Terrible Calm: https://soundcloud.com/terrible-calm-productions

Terrible Calm- Ticket {Downstream Official}

oWbese: @owbese
London Yellow: https://soundcloud.com/londonyellow

Artwork: Fractured Fractals
www.facebook.com/FracturedFractals

Tensor X Owbese X London Yellow- Fright Lights

Pass it all on by @tensor-tensor-tensor and @subhero

For optimum listening pleasure play loud and let it immerse you...

Pass It All On

Tensor X Sub Hero - Pass It All On

Incorruptible

Downstream is music and nothing else we could ever purport it to be. 

Egress, the pendulum says,
we will be discontinued 
one way or another.