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I fall in love again…..

A Newcomer from Glasgow. His music shaped from his heart and soul. Waving melodies, which breaks on the impulsive bass in beautiful fine and fragile mosaics.

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A friend of mine recently posted a video of the “Harmonic Field ver.2″ which is the instrument featured below and above. I had to know who builds these things and there you go: Folktek. The artist duo builds lots of these experimental instruments in families. The different families combine different approaches to manipulate sounds, such as sound from accoustic sources, delay/looping/echo or actually the electricity that runs through humans. The Harmonc Field Instrument, for example, closes a circuit of electricity that comes through the human body and is therefore played by touch and with something that runs through us.

Here’s what they say about themselves:

Folktek is an artist collaborative formed by Arius Blaze and Ben Houston and coming to include the video and digital works of Drew Mcyntire (Big Pauper, Token Recluse Records). Folktek is folks, specifically artists working with a passion for sound as the basis for the work presented here.

We work with all arts and consider ourselves a part of a relatively underground movement of a second renaissance. We write books, bind books, work with wood, DJ, metalsmith, paint, sew, make lamps, music, ping pong paddles, boxes, digital instruments, film works, photography, sound art installations, masks and naturally we dance. Folktek is not a major company and we’re generally opposed to major corporation. These works are made by our hands and with our minds and incorporate years of study.

Check their website for lots of insight, inumerous instruments and images at http://folktek.com/
I would just love to be able to play around with these. Amazing work!

(an example on how to make music with one of these after the jump)
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A new favourite by Pearson Sound.

Pearson Sound is what David Kennedy calls himself when he doesn’t feel like calling himself Ramadanman, and this remix of “In Arms” is a sparser, more insidiuously impressive effort than Bombay Bicycle Club could muster: lax percussion herding along a dismantled house groove and harsh 808 smacks. Light-headed music for pale days

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Today i uploaded 2 new tracks for the OneBeat artists RTZ23 and Wermonster. I like both a lot and both upcoming artists have a style of their own. Check their profiles on the OneBeat artist page: http://www.onebe.at/de/kuenstler/ (german) or english at http://www.onebe.at/en/artists/
Atomkraft by Wermonster is unreleased and exclusive to our Radio broadcast through reboot.fm the past weekend. Listen below:

Wermonster – Atomkraft by OneBeat

Pink bunny suits was previously published on Trackdonalds, but is new to OneBeat, so well worth to spread this downtempo tune.
Rtz23 – Pink Bunny Suits by OneBeat

I am just in the mood for this. Released this month as a single, this is the first thing Zomby released under his own name since the One Foot in Front of the Other mini-LP in August 2009 (src).
Subtle.. dreamy.. unsettling. Just my thing.

I recently discovered ACRE from Manchester, UK. He produces some really great tunes, experimental with lots of bass.
I can´t really find much about this dude.. no bio, just plenty of releases on discogs. Be sure to check him out on his soundcloud, bandcamp or twitter. His “Be Mine In Outer Space EP” is free to download.
Listen below (my favourite is Ghatt.. pure love for this bass monster)..

FaltyDL -Brazil (Acre Remix) by Acre

Ghatt by Acre

The very promising duo Lompret & Stoubish made a excellent experimental downtempo and hiphop podcast for Input Selector in January 2011 (i posted about Input Selector before)… Great tracklist, head nodding guarantee!
Input Selector writes:

Enjoy the music!

IS 079 – Lompret & Stoubish [Input Selector] by Input Selector

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S13 aka Justinas Mikulskis from Lithuania was kind enough to hook up via E-Mail and to send me his mix “Now, Voyager II”. He put together a really good selection of chilled downtempo and bass sounds, sometimes with a dark twist , in some tracks a little lighter. The perfect autumn sound and nicely crafted. Be sure to check out part 1.
Furthermore he produces some good experimental bass tunes.. Check out his “Yourself EP”, free to download on Soundcloud.  Thanks Justinas

Yourself EP:

Yourself ep (Secret Thirteen Music) by S13

Now, Voyager II:

Now, Voyager II by S13

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