Lofi, Beats & Jazz by Inner Ocean Records

Catalog: INNER171
Format: Tape Cassette //  Digital // Streaming

Limited Edition Tapes  // 200 Worldwide 
https://found.ee/onthebrush

An alchemist of bespoke beats, Floridian producer tiny.blips' utilizes all-original instrumentation and vocals on his 18-track beat tape 'on the brush'. Serving psychedelic grooves that are so layered you would be sure they were stuffed to the brim with samples (hint: they are NOT), tiny.blips proves you can have fun while also creating beats with serious substance. A feast for the ears, eyes, heart and soul.

Artwork By: Laura Atria - https://www.instagram.com/laura_atria_art/
Mastered by: Amir Tal - https://www.instagram.com/amirtalmusic/

on the brush

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tiny.blips - drop the dids

No Mountains x Just Big Hills - Mountain Sounds

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Dokkodo Sounds - Wait Less

tiny.blips - rally and return

zakè and dotlights met in early 2023, although both artists found that they shared affinities towards each other's works for years. Through conversations, there was one album that both artists equally cherished, ‘Stay With Me’ released in the summer of 2022 with zakè’s good friend T.R. Jordan. The album also featured a special appearance by the lovely marine eyes.

Deeply drawn by the sounds and story behind the album, dotlights commenced working with the original stems to create a very special collection of reimagined tracks with his unique lofi beatmaking and beautifully composed guitar aesthetics he’s become known for. With the assistance and this newly collaborative approach, zakè worked with both old and new stems, in addition to adding new synth production, field recordings, and tape manipulations to these remixed tracks.

Release July 12, 2024
Artwork By: Lela Amparo

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dotlights is a guitarist / beatmaker from the Netherlands and a frequent contributor to Chillhop Records and Memoir Music. Working from a small home studio in a quiet town near the German border, he blends his guitar aesthetics with downtempo electronica vibes and lofi beats.

zakè (aka Zach Frizzell) is the founder and head of Indianapolis-based Past Inside the Present, which has become a standard bearer for modern ambient and experimental artistry since its creation in 2018. In addition to PITP, he runs the collaboration-focused Zakè Drone Recordings, and has released for Azure Vista Records, Dunk!Records, Polar Seas Recordings and others.

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Stay With Me [remixes], 2024

Remixed and produced using the original stems from 'Stay With Me, ZD-020 (2022) by zakè & dotlights
Mastered at Statinski Mastering by Ivo Statinski.

Guitars, synths, piano, and beat programming by dotlights
Synths, field recordings, and tape manipulation by zakè

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Stay With Me, 2022

Originally written, recorded and produced by zakè & T.R. Jordan
Vocal accompaniment on 'Stay With Me' by marine eyes
Field recordings and cover photo captured off the coast of Lake Erie, 41°25'25.9"N 82°36'27.4"W

Photography and design by zakè

zakè, Dotlights - Shoreline [Dotlights Remix]

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eevee - summertime

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SoBe - Vernal

Lemonade (Feat. Pope)

KOHEI YOSHII - Everytime

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eevee - gaze

Hailing from Buenos Aires: multi-instrumentalist and producer Gas Lab releases his 12th full length album “Please Don’t Judge Me". 
A laid-back gem featuring smooth synth melodies over a dust-crackling lush soundscape,
rhythmically counterpointed by a percussion driven drum bounce and all glued together by warm bass lines. 

Curious Cat

dazzle

melt

tequila shots

rally and return

Quiet Time

quiet time

Gymnopédie

Are We Gonna Do It

Cannelle

Lonely Guy

Inner Ocean Records is a platform and collective for emerging artists to release music and visual art. Based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the label was conceptualized in 2012 as a vehicle for artists to have their music heard and seen, to build a community of passionate people.  We designed the label to be what we would have loved to have as artists ourselves, redefining the rules in an ebb and flow to the changing landscape of music. We have made a conscious commitment to be transparent, adaptable and always for the people.

We are a label for artists, by artists. 

We’ve built the backbone of this label around great sound and feeling; laid back, honest and forever chill. We have released a lot of different sounds; Ambient, Lofi Hip Hop, RnB, Modern Funk, Future Soul and Indie. Since our inception, we have prioritized natural evolution and organic growth in the music – we value the process and accept change.  Expect the unexpected; we want to delightfully surprise you;)