This week’s podcast is provided by one of the true autuers of the music world: DJ Vadim. Throughout a career of insurmountable releases, shows, projects and aliases, Vadim has found ways to infuse quite possible all the world’s sounds into his mixes and tracks seamlessly and intricately.
Nostalgia 77 presents the Relics mix in support of his upcoming album The Sleepwalking Society out March 22nd, via Tru Thoughts. The Sleepwalking Society features German singer Josa Peit alongside Benedic Lamdin aka Nostalgia 77, and is his long-awaited fourth studio album. The first single, Simmerdown” is now available on iTunes.
The Relics mix represents a peek into the underground London Jazz scene, featuring tracks from his own label, Impossible Ark, as well as Babel, Loop, Grundle, and Ninja Tune. Relics also contains a couple of unreleased tracks with the song Dandelions by Kaz Simmons and Elephants by the Skeletons.
Label Love is an eclectic yet unified bundle of unique sounds compiled simply for the love of sharing them with the universe – each track plucked and presented by labels heads from Melting Pot, Ninja Tune, One-Handed, Plug Research, Tru Thoughts, and Ubiquity.
Each label evokes its own signature sound giving this collection a diversified and interesting flow of genres. Label Love consists of nostalgic classics, fresh unreleased gems and other dope, exclusive selections with the goal of expanding minds to new styles, vibrations and colors.
We’ll admit that DJ Vadim is not a name that been on the front burner the past hew years, but this Ninja Tune OG hasn’t gone away quietly, as he proves with this new mix of blunted beats (a phrase not on the tip of anyone’s tongue either). Big ups to Self-Titled for unearthing this gem of a mix.
San Francisco's Brendan Angelides has been recording under the name Eskmo for more than ten years, and after a couple of acclaimed singles for Warp and Planet Mu, he’s finally ready with a full album on Ninja Tune. He’s abandoned the dancefloor on this album, and his music is hard to describe; inventive descriptions like glitchstep or slowrave comes to mind.
Opener and lead single "Cloudlight," is an epic and dark showcase in slow, moody and organic fragments of splashy, bubbly dub and Angelides' own monotone vocals over ...
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