Trip Tease – Durango
Gorgeous new album from CDMX-based Carlos Salame, aka Trip Tease. This was released in August on the always-unpredictable and fun Australian label clipp.art, releases from which I’ve featured here several times in the past. Earlier this year, I also featured an excellent Prins Thomas remix of Trip Tease’s collaboration with Alain Vice, “Milano 2098”. Where both versions of that track placed Salame and Vice squarely in post-disco and italo territory, this new album is far looser and hazier. Salame mines the outer borders of house music primarily, but most of the album isn’t particularly club-focused, instead using typical house rhythms as a skeletal structure to explore textural ambience and disintegrated soul. Lovely stuff. You can find this for streaming or on bandcamp.
Rewined – A life / Arp city
Next up, two new tracks from Rewined (Reece Weinberg), an American artist occupying the space where earthy IDM meets neofolk. The first song sees Weinberg laying crunchy quasi-house rhythms under saw stabs and square bass bubbles, eventually giving way for steel acoustic guitars and woody piano to take center stage. I’m not generally one for acoustic guitar in electronic music, but occasionally — as is the case here — the instrument can offer a refreshing reprieve, and add an immediate and human feeling to a track that calls for it. The second track is the opener from Weinberg’s new EP, from which both of these tracks are taken, and while it still employs some of the grit and spirit of folk music, it centers more strictly around just a winding arp line (as the title suggests) and associated rhythm fx. No bandcamp for this, unfortunately, but Weinberg was kind enough to let me post mp3s for you here — you can also find these for streaming all over.
Rewined – “A life”
Rewined – “Arp city”
flossy – Seeing God
Last up today, a softly perspicuous song from Melbourne-based flossy (Anna Leathem) and producer Rob Feher. The two gently pull something delicate from the ether, pairing diaphanous vocals with restrained, modern half-time rhythms, polyrhythmic delays, and evergreen breakbeat fills in the turnarounds. Conceptually, this aims for the heavens, but is modest enough to avoid hubris, maintaining a charming humanity about it. I hadn’t heard of flossy before she sent this through, and she’s only released three songs thus far, but all sit in this nice space of gauzy pop music, so she’s definitely worth keeping an ear out for. No bandcamp for this, but it’s available for streaming, and Leathem kindly let me post the mp3 for you below.
flossy – “Seeing God”