New musician? New musician! Or least they’re new to us, with only 4 songs released anyway. This remix of Zaktt’s Night Mare keeps the same pace as the original, but adds in Suskii’s own growls and stab sounds, which are prominent throughout the entire song.
Electronic
Nicolas Dominique – Broken | Ambient
This is probably one of my favourite songs from Nicolas Dominique recently. He’s already great at doing beatless tracks, and can immediately set a certain mood with his music. Broken follows on from many other musicians regarding where its inspiration comes from, and there may even be a vocal version of this song in the future, watch this space…
Various Artists – Remix War IX!
It may not be much to offer this time round (because reasons), but the 9th edition of the My Little Remix forum’s Remix Wars has finished up. Albeit with few contributions this time round, for various reasons, here’s what the forum frequenters have to offer!
Butterflight – Proteus | Chillout
Hey look, remember A State of Sugar? This is their second release (the first was a throwback so we didn’t feature it), a song from Butterflight. Simple but relaxing, precisely what some chillout songs are meant to do!
Virus Ponies – Angry Pony | Bounce
Virus Ponies are improving their production skills with every new release. I may not be a huge fan of bounce, this song is simple but has pretty good mixing and sound design.
Sights Unseen – Sovereign Divination (ft. Cadie) | House
About time these two did a song together! Expect the usual alternate storyline message behind the lyrics, which Sights seems to have made his little signature style when it comes to music.
Boards of Equestria – Music Has the Right to Pony | Album | Electronic / Hip-Hop
A new album from one of Technickel Pony’s aliases (you may remember Beats and Pieces), whose name is in tribute to the Scottish electronic duo, Boards of Canada. The album is mostly made up of relatively short pieces, and keeps to a sort of chill electronic / hip-hop style which runs throughout the entire album.
Technickel’s production style seems to have become a bit more standardised in this album compared to Beats and Pieces (although I do still hear some Sytrus presets in there ;P). While I’m unfortunately unable to do a full album review, I’d love to recommend a couple of tracks in particular. Track 7, Night Time World (ft. donglekumquat) gives a great sort of spacey feel with both the vocals and the lead synths. The following track, Dusk Light, a collaboration with Seventh Element, also has some great instrumentation and has a very strong trip-hop vibe to it.
Again, apologies for the lack of full review, but if you like chill electronica and hip-hop, this is definitely the sort of thing you should check out!
Direct Current – Nimbostratus | Ambient
Wake up. Stretch your wings. Take flight.
The more I try to make ambient and chillout music myself, the more I become envious of those who do it so well, such as Direct Current. I really enjoyed this one, and not just because it’s about master race pegasi; the simple melodies combine together very nicely and the strings add new level of depth to it.
Dynamite Grizzly – No Worries | Techno
The queen of techno returns with a surprisingly more chill track than usual. Taking a more downtempo beat and featuring strings and plenty of keyboard sounds, this arguably fits better among chillout than techno! Dig into this and feel the zen with Snails…or something along those lines…
PVNK – Horse Party | Drum & Bass
I~ think this is pretty cool. We covered this back when PVNK’s Internal Errors EP was released – it’s a fun piece that keeps your standard dnb break pattern and focus mostly on plucked basses than the rolling sounds you might often see in drum & bass.
Horse Music Herald 