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Let's get these tabs closed (music)
Dec. 5th, 2019 10:42 amMy schedule is bunching up weirdly. Yesterday I was on the move all the time; today I've got a half-empty day. Tomorrow is medical and work things. Saturday and Sunday are looking pretty full too.
https://soundcloud.com/morillomusic/world-house
Random Soundcloud find. Morillo's "World House" opens with some lovely instrumental work and the track is heavily influenced by the Peruvian/Incan traditional sounds that he's been working among. It's a nice blend with the US-standard house beats.
https://soundcloud.com/thefunkhunters/body-move
It's not a Wex music post without some funk and here we have two of today's better artists in this genre - Funk Hunter and A.Skillz - collaborating on a track with both modern dance sensibilities and some throwback elements that remind me of Solid Gold. And if you're young enough you have no idea what that is, check it out. Lots of interesting history there.
https://soundcloud.com/gramatik/05-gramatik-defunk-funk-it-vip
And while we're doing straight-up funky things, here's another collaboration. DeFunk and Gramatik got together a month or so ago for this beauty, which features some good funk-style guitar licks. I still love a phat horn section more than anything else in this genre, and you definitely get that in the last 1/3 of the track. But there are subtle and fun differences between the way an electric guitar is used on a funk track versus a more typical rock&roll track and these guys seem to know that.
https://soundcloud.com/young-nrg-productions/jessica-moore-around-my-space-kritikal-remix
https://www.house-mixes.com/profile/stexdj/play/jessica-moore---around-my-space---debut-singl
Shifting over to d&b land, this is Kritikal's remix of Jessica Moore's "Around My Space". Young NRG productions, from which I got this track, have been very hit-and-miss with me. They do a lot of wub and stuff I turn off quickly. This is an interesting, dark/downtempo take on drum&bass. The original (second link) is more hard-edged and in-your-face. I like the way the remix softens it.
https://soundcloud.com/enormouschills/kize-cant-say-no
Kize's "Can't Say No" starts off sound like another downtempo track with some sad-sounding male vocals. But it almost immediately picks up into a more positive dance vibe. This builds nicely through the track so that by the time the vocals come back in the whole affect is changed. It's a nice lesson in how to set the mood through a track.
https://soundcloud.com/spinninrecords/bancali-nothing-to-do-out-now
I wanted to close this set out on a more upbeat note and Bancali does that. Spnnin' Records is another source I've been following for a while and mostly passing over. This track feels more like an end-of-summer anthem than I'd normally expect in December but what the heck. You could do a lot worse than close your set out with this though as so often happens I'm disappointed it's only about 2:30. Could easily do another minute.
https://soundcloud.com/morillomusic/world-house
Random Soundcloud find. Morillo's "World House" opens with some lovely instrumental work and the track is heavily influenced by the Peruvian/Incan traditional sounds that he's been working among. It's a nice blend with the US-standard house beats.
https://soundcloud.com/thefunkhunters/body-move
It's not a Wex music post without some funk and here we have two of today's better artists in this genre - Funk Hunter and A.Skillz - collaborating on a track with both modern dance sensibilities and some throwback elements that remind me of Solid Gold. And if you're young enough you have no idea what that is, check it out. Lots of interesting history there.
https://soundcloud.com/gramatik/05-gramatik-defunk-funk-it-vip
And while we're doing straight-up funky things, here's another collaboration. DeFunk and Gramatik got together a month or so ago for this beauty, which features some good funk-style guitar licks. I still love a phat horn section more than anything else in this genre, and you definitely get that in the last 1/3 of the track. But there are subtle and fun differences between the way an electric guitar is used on a funk track versus a more typical rock&roll track and these guys seem to know that.
https://soundcloud.com/young-nrg-productions/jessica-moore-around-my-space-kritikal-remix
https://www.house-mixes.com/profile/stexdj/play/jessica-moore---around-my-space---debut-singl
Shifting over to d&b land, this is Kritikal's remix of Jessica Moore's "Around My Space". Young NRG productions, from which I got this track, have been very hit-and-miss with me. They do a lot of wub and stuff I turn off quickly. This is an interesting, dark/downtempo take on drum&bass. The original (second link) is more hard-edged and in-your-face. I like the way the remix softens it.
https://soundcloud.com/enormouschills/kize-cant-say-no
Kize's "Can't Say No" starts off sound like another downtempo track with some sad-sounding male vocals. But it almost immediately picks up into a more positive dance vibe. This builds nicely through the track so that by the time the vocals come back in the whole affect is changed. It's a nice lesson in how to set the mood through a track.
https://soundcloud.com/spinninrecords/bancali-nothing-to-do-out-now
I wanted to close this set out on a more upbeat note and Bancali does that. Spnnin' Records is another source I've been following for a while and mostly passing over. This track feels more like an end-of-summer anthem than I'd normally expect in December but what the heck. You could do a lot worse than close your set out with this though as so often happens I'm disappointed it's only about 2:30. Could easily do another minute.
