Slow Magic remix of Sun Glitters: Too Much To Lose

I've raved about Slow Magic before, so I'll rave about Sun Glitters instead. Sun Glitters hails from Luxembourg and is an ocean of lush melodies, ghostly digi-diva choirs, pitch-shifted vocal samples, and warm bass melodies driven by alternately dense and relaxing beat-work combinations between down-tempo and wonky beats.

XXYYXX: Angel

XXYYXX is the alter-ego of, or perhaps better name for Marcel Everett.

Marcel works out of his man-cave-bedroom creating harmonious melodies that provoke emotions and paint rather vivid images of stillness, oneness, and peace. R&B rhythms and various vocal samples are Marcel's staples that donate forward motion to his music, creating open environments that feed into lifelike movement. Marcel has the unique ability to make you feel like you're on multiple trains moving at various speeds in different directions ALL AT THE SAME TIME. His uncommon sensibilities draw on musical elements that make for great music in a modern, if not futuristic context. You get the feeling that if aliens ON ACID lived on a planet made of music, that XXYYXX would be one of it's residents. It's meditative and calming, yet yields, separates, and has some beat. From the abyss of time and space, he creates polar opposites of pulsating breaks, and contours that are rounded by evocative vocal melodies and his awesome skill.

With XXYYXX, space proves to be nothing, as is gravity. The otherworldly music has more patience than the average bear, as Marcel seems to make BPM's oscillate with life and breath. He creates a perfect union between everything good about the last 20 years of R&B, and that of electronic music. With vocals reeling you in, the rest is a question of your mind's eye's scenery. Whether the hook is sped up, slowed down, or both, Marcel's music is all about juxtaposition. Broad notes of low end bass balance the way 4-6 percussion parts pull your ear in various directions, only to reconvene in perfect little pockets. What's unique about this music is how Marcel Everett has blurred history. It's clear from the resulting sounds that he's versed, INCREDIBLY intentional, and is dead set on blending decades through the medium of sound. “I see my music being more experimental in the next 10 years… Music should be free-flowing and expressive.”

If XXYYXX's music gets farther out than where it currently resides, then the future of music is in seriously deft hands. Between claps and snaps, beats and vocals, XXYYXX makes for some delicious audio candy. 

Slow Magic remix of Satellite Stories: Sirens

Courtesy of +Kristen Shive, I discovered a band that's been creeping around my music library since September of last year, with the release of their new album Pine Trails. Satellite Stories is a Oulu, Finland based indie-rock band packed with energy. My ear detected similarities between the new album Pine Trails and Two Door Cinema Club's 2010 album Tourist History, and I like it a lot.

Slow Magic is music from "your unknown imaginary friend." 

DannielRadall remix of Keep Shelly in Athens: Running Out Of You

DannielRadall is a Mexican producer of...New Wave. I'm sure that's not what you were thinking I was going to type, but nonetheless. He's also a former jam producer from Miami Vice, and he's known as the leading edge of New Wave in his country, being one of the few from the area to actually receive recognition, through the use of some chill electronics.

Brothertiger: A House of Many Ghosts

John Jagos began his recording career under the name Brothertiger back in Toledo, OH during the balmy summer of 2009. However, he began recording indie-electronic music in 2006 as Monoteque, which was an experimental project characterized mainly by it's tribal beats and pulsing synths. Influenced heavily by the electronic sound of Brian Eno and (of course) M83, along with the experimental characteristics of Caribou, Animal Collective, and Yeasayer, Jagos recorded many of his tracks throughout the final half of 2009 with windows wide open. Drawing heavily upon cassette-esque lo-fi drum tracks and dream-like synthesizers, Brothertiger conglomerates the ethereal stylings of 1980's new-wave with the modern electro-dance sound into his own being. Like contemporaries Washed Out and Toro y Moi, Brothertiger aims to capture the “carefree and woozy feelings of summer ease.”


"It's just daydreams and pale limitations."

Com Truise: Cathode Girls

Com Truise is one of the many personas of producer and designer Seth Haley, born and raised in upstate New York and operating out of a 12' box in Princeton, New Jersey. An admitted synthesizer obsessive, Com Truise is the maker of an experimental and bottom heavy style he calls “mid-fi synth-wave, slow-motion funk”.