Solstice
Searing hot raved-up dubstep for sweaty beach days and summer nights that never cool down.
Dubstep
Liquid
Be water, my friend.
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“Dubstep” is maybe a misnomer here. “Future Garage” might be more accurate, but more important than the label are the influences; these include Burial and Jon Hopkins, a couple of artists whose work I really enjoy. This music is hard to describe because it’s much different than any electronic music that’s been produced in the last 20 years.
As the title implies, this is a floaty piece, but with a good pace. This went through a couple of revisions, but the end result is one I’m happy with.
Abyss
The downward spiral.
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Deep, moody dubstep. This is a dramatic piece which goes a lot of different directions, but ultimately is driven by the heavy bassline.
The electric piano was the last addition to the track, but has become the glue putting the whole thing together.
The remix adds some pace for a slightly different vibe.
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life.refactored
Same roots, new growth patterns.
Just a little over 6 years ago, I released life.remixed. Similar to what I was able to do for Existential Funk, I wanted to somehow update the release for it’s 5th anniversary.
I’ve been working on this for almost 2 years now, and today I am ready to release this “special edition” of life.remixed: life.refactored.
life.refactored started as a DJ mix of the entire life.remixed album. However, it quickly came to my attention that the album was too diverse for a straight DJ mix, so it was necessary to “remix life.remixed”. Rather than remixing the tracks on an individual basis, this is a remix of the entire album – the tracks are split up at an atomic level and mixed together to form something totally different. In the making of this mix I constrained myself to only using samples from the original album, with small exception (a breakbeat and a cymbal).
This mix is inspired by some of my favorite DJ mixes, like Richie Hawtin’s DE9 series and King Cannibal’s Way of the Ninja – like these examples, this mix is greater than the sum of its parts.
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life.remixed
Growing wild from digital foundations.
life.remixed is sort of a spiritual sequel to Existential Funk. This is the only other LP release I ever did; the ideas here are as big as the sound. All the tracks had a lot of production put into them, and cover a lot of ground. In a lot of ways this is a more mature album than Existential Funk
Some of the standout tracks on here are “Rasta Breakfast”, some roots-dubstep with deep bass and classic reggae vibes; “Reconsitution” which skips the “step” and keeps the dub; switching gears and achieving some range, “Climbing to the Top” is one of my favorite hard dance releases ever.
This is a free album and is exclusively available from Bandcamp! Click through the embedded player to download the album.
Future Chillout Dubstep
Originally presented as “randombeats.com Mix Series 01”.