The rise of future beats over the past year has been a bright spot lighting up the underground. Often fusing moving and beautiful melodic elements with heavy bass, snappy percussion and some serious bounce, it’s truly the best of both worlds. Hailing from France, OUTSIDERS PARIS is one of the key platforms helping to push the sound in new and…
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TEK.LUN Moves Mountains With ‘The Oppression Olympics’
by Jeremy Sternby Jeremy SternOne of SoundCloud’s beatmaking all-stars put forth his magnum opus on Bandcamp yesterday. TEK.LUN‘s album, aptly titled The Oppression Olympics, explores imaginative storytelling techniques (comparable to Carmack’s Rekindling EP) that employ music as a vehicle to deliver messaging that can’t be completely captured in mere words or colorful drum loops. The spectacular project draws from raw samples of the George…
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There isn’t a better feeling than Spring vacation. The combination of warmer, longer days ahead, coupled with reduced responsibility is pure magic. As trees and flowers bloom the world feels a little brighter; more vibrant. Capturing that feeling comes PIL Society presents: Spring Vacation Compilation Vol.1. The 20 track release has been slowly rolling out over the past few months…
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It always warms my heart when I see an artist I introduced to the FUXWITHIT team starting to gather more and more appreciation. This is even more true when the act in question is a person whom I highly respect, from both an artistic and personal point of view. Vincent aka Chopsoe is one of them. After his debut EP back…
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As a part of The Outlaw Ocean’s monthly installments, Ian Urbina enlisted the sonic wizardry of Chicago’s Blake Skowron to convey the lawless events of the open ocean. Urbina works with producers on experimental musical stories inspired by his journalism and sampling his vast library of textures and sounds he recorded while working at sea. His previous issues have featured…
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“With the release of our debut roster compilation Hayashi (meaning “woods”), our goal was to illustrate the various landscapes that one can find in the solace of the trees, and the emotions they invoke. Whether it’s the comfort provided by the stillness of pine, the mournfulness of the weeping willow, or the harmony and balance found in the comfort of…