An old-school drum-line with a Philadelphia groove about it, blending smoothly with world music tones and organic layers of synth / string / voice… An intoxicating mystique, and a melancholic aura from the chords to back up the instant escapism of the track. Beth Gladen sets herself apart from the crowd, with the beautifully original, piano-led trip-hop and alternative essence of Re-Birth.
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Fighting to continue the embrace of organic creativity – an electronic track both distinct and nostalgic in its fusion of melody and weight – Kaleel Zibe delivers an outright instrumental beast of a track, for Let’s Get Out Of Here.
Norway producer Indieclimb impressively brings together the evocatively ambient and the boldly intense. LEGACY is a fascinating original track, built around the unique pairing of a siren-like riff and atmospheric synths that emotively descend underneath it.
Vocal flair with drum and bass and lashings of effects – an immersive sonic journey through cinematic layers of colourful production traits and short, provocative lines; ZOE.LEELA creates an electronic journey fit to both intrigue and uplift, for Gold Reloaded.
Originality and optimism carve out a rhythmic and distinct, playful to cinematic composition – Edilegrand dives wholeheartedly into the instrumental electronic world, with the distinct tones and energy of Onflow.
Continuing the creative climb, the latest single from an ever-mysterious Love The Magician emerges in the form of a multi-layered, colourful and calming instrumental – a synth-pop arrangement of cascading layers that work towards a dreamy overall finish.
Organic electronic rhythms both consistent and perfectly compressed for that tribal-hypnotic escapism of a timeless genre. D.J.NATHAN.FRIBERG captures the essence of old school house music, with the simplicity and slick appreciative style of Speaker Movement.
Hungarian producer and artist OIEE, whose single Marathon recently debuted on BBC Radio One, has gone from strength to strength as a composer and an expressive, heartfelt modern creative. Seamlessly uniting styles in a subtle but enchanting fashion, his music proves both hypnotic and quite bold by nature, and Callous offers a sublime example of precisely that kind of masterful balance.
devils in the details is a delicate to industrial arrangement of unique layers and fragments, a playful but dramatic sense of darkness ensuing, with links to old school trip hop but more notably an original take on electronic production – something that consistently rings loud across the jcSubterfuge catalogue.
From the mysterious album THE DARK CITY, Vger delivers an ominous electronic ambiance and track, in the form of the story-telling sci-fi instrumental Approaching The City. This introduction to the project welcomes a state of intrigue and uncertainty, balancing rhythmic synths with warped synth melodies and an eighties progression that’s aptly cinematic.
India-born and currently based in LA, Kiwiani presents an immersive, ethereal approach to production, which at first feels perfectly in tune with the abstract artistic implications of the accompanying image.
close is ultimately an industrial, rhythmic ode to heavy beats and fragmented production, but it also features intermittent hints of soulful vocal melody; playfully incorporated amidst a fitting and consistently distinct presentation.
Following on from the fiercely immersive genre fusion of Adagio One, rising artist and composer David Ratmoko manages yet again to enthral, engage, and impress modern listeners, with the darkness and hypnotic depth of Adagio Two.