Stainless Steele electronic/hip hop producer and MC from Pennsylvania drops a new EP entitled A Beautiful Rift in Time . The EP features production from Bueller, Knxwledge, Jay Marvlis, Gamera and Poptartpete with Stainless Steele on vocals.
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Stainless Steele drops a Valentine’s Day mix in collaboration with Paris-based music blog Stock-71 (peep their site, they got ill mixes). Black Roses: Love Sick Potion features brand new and old love-themed singles, freestyles, and remixes by Stainless Steele along with a few contributions from his musical colleagues.
Playlist:
01 Outkast – Happy Valentine’s Day (Black Roses chopped and screwed intro)
02 Stainless Steele – Dancing Ballerina Hidden Praying Mantis
03 Stainless Steele – Moon Ladder
04 Stainless Steele – Moon Ladder (Lapalux’s Long Days remix)
05 Stainless Steele – Purple Curve Ruins
06 Stainless Steele – Say You Will Freestyle
07 Stainless Steele – Adorable Torture
08 TEK.LUN – Heart and Soul
09 Stainless Steele – Holdin My Breath
10 The Internet – Love Song (Stainless Steele remix)
11 Stainless Steele – Dulcinea
12 Elegant Animals – By My Recollection
13 Stainless Steele – Nocturnal Revenge (alternate take: knx)
14 Stainless Steele – Technology for Romance (alternate take: Abjo)
15 Outkast – Vibrate
Cognitive Reframing: is a powerful psychological tool that helps us change the meaning we ascribe to a particular event or situation. The “REFRAMING” project from Stainless Steele features remixes from: Ackryte, Lapalux, Infinite Potentials, Swarvy, Zenios, Nigel One, Josh Hey and Mefaun.
The Footclan Beat Collective (AL_PD, Dan Matic, Bmoody, jSchlock) presents Dusty But Digital: Beats Vol. 2.
Stainless Steele, an electronic/hip hop artist from Pennsylvania drops a new album, Straight Jacket Time Killin. This album is a result of Stainless Steele collaborating with forward-thinking, electronic/hip hop producers throughout the United States and other countries as well. Producers for the album include; Abjo, vOPhoniQ, CHITS, AL_PD, VLooper, Swarvy, Mndsgn, Infinite Potentials, Zenios, Pitch Black Theory, Sir Froderick and Jonti.
Via Bandcamp’s Best –
Berry Weight sits atop the slippery slope of a genre being diluted more each day. Luckily, the international duo (one musician from Canada, the other from Switzerland) have dealt out some high quality downtempo trip-hop in Music for Imaginary Movies.
The majority of the tracks on this eleven-strong album are head-bobbers, taking the listener through fully saturated atmospheres, superbly crafted to satisfy those looking for a well engineered combination of electronic effects and real-world samples. Though generally rhythmic in nature, these guys mix in a good amount of melody, courtesy of the lovely Astrid Engberg on three of the tracks. Distinguishing this album from the rest, however, is the masterful clarinet work performed by the Frenchman Kledsy Jy.
This album is one to relax to. Made up of some instrumentals, some lyric driven tracks, Music for Imaginary Movies strikes a comfortable balance between rhythm and melody. Here’s to downtempo crafted by those who know what they’re doing.
Mndsgn an electronic/hip hop producer from New Jersey has been residing in Los Angeles and other west coast locations for the past several months doing live shows and working on new material. Some of that new material being this latest 5 track EP release entitled Daypass. Mndsgn also recently collaborated with several other east coast producers on a project entitled Blasphemous Jazz: The Bitches Brew Sessions.
Stainless Steele’s “The Renaissance Asylum” EP is a project that combines hip hop, electronica and psychedelic music with original thought provoking lyrics. The arrangement of the songs is also very original with some tracks lasting almost 6 minutes with only one verse and the rest left for instrumentation. However there is no lacking of lyrics or content when it comes to Stainless Steele’s verses. All songs written and produced by Stainless Steele except for Adorable Torture which was produced by ESP and co-produced by Stainless Steele.
Cover Art by Nate James
Via NPR –
I love watching a band evolve. On its third studio album, Little Dragon does just that. The Swedish quartet, fronted by singer Yukimi Negano, first hooked me years ago with its gorgeous mix of soul, R&B, rock, funk, synth-pop and electronica. But when I heard “Nightlight,” the lead single off Ritual Union, immediately knew something different was on the horizon.
The new record brings out a sharper side of the band. The sounds are more aggressive, the vocals more dynamic, and the mood more consistent as one track flows into the next. However, the band hasn’t lost the dreamy pop sensibility that has always made its songs so addictive.
The dance floor is my first love as a music fan, and Ritual Union has plenty to offer in that department. Uptempo rhythms and electronic beats are everywhere on this album, making for an interesting contrast with Negano’s vocals, which sometimes dip into a quirky and even folky vibe. The tension resolves on the closing cut, “Seconds,” a gentle lullaby with a hint of Kraftwerk that marries the band’s disparate influences perfectly.
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