Wipecast #14 – nice 2 fit u

selected by greenartist 01.06.2011

published 10.04.2011

with a help of my friends – thank you

Start this spring with the new wipecast volume !

Good mood is what you shouldn’t forget these days. That’s why the tunes we’ve chosen for the mix were saturated with the sun and the fresh air.

Volume 14 was recorded almost a year ago, but it has become available only by now !  Well, better late than earlier. You’re welcome !

It consists mainly of two styles – so-called bass music founded in the UK, and dreamy chillwave from the United States and Canada. We begin with an optimistic remix of Johnny Cash, who’s known as a country maitre, then we drift a bit in modern groovy electronica. After that people like Guido, Mount Kimbie and incredibly talented singer-songwriter Jamie Woon show us who’s who in the United Kingdom’s actual tendences. The last album made by the experimental indie Stateless band still attract us.

Then the mood changes again and we dive into nu-skool dreampop which is called chillwave. This style is famous for the trandsetter Ernest Green aka Washed Out with his debut album which he’s been preparing for two years and younger yet talented producers like Com Truise and Hard Mix. We guess that term “synth-wave” is more relevant for their stuff.

It’s not surprised that the majority of tunes in the mix were released in 2011 (because it’s the 2011 podcast) – for example, Radiohead‘s last, the shortest and probably the most contradictory album, and the 7th – instrumental – LP by the America’s Blue Sky Black Death electronic duo. The curious hybrid of post-dubstep, ambient and etherial Burial-alike vocals is given by the english trio Swarms – and it’s hot ! Julio Bashmore‘s stuff is more danceable, but still good. He’s into something between house and dubstep with a hint of Detroit, and sometimes can try some downtempo. The final track is presented by the modern shoegaze duo called The Big Pink. This is an unforgettable ballad from their debut long-player released by the legendary 4AD label.

Wipecat #13 – dreams come, dreams go

waved away by greenartist

chillwave dreampop indie shoegaze coldwave garage

• Back together again !

Must tell you it’s the first podcast since november of 2010. It’s a pity, but here’s the compensation for long silence. After 6 months I’m proudly presenting you wipecast #13 called “dreams come, dreams go” …

The podcast hasn’t been named occasionally: its subtitle signifies my interest to dreampop music and its modern varieties. Almost all these artists are from New World, and it’s the likes of Warm Ghost, Balam Acab, Cortney Tidwell and Atlas Sound. Their music is often tagged as “chillwave“, “cold wave” or “witch house” (the latter term has nothing to do with house music familiar to us). However, in the mix you can find a wide range of electronic music from future garage of Floating Points and Pariah to our fellow countrymen EU (Ёлочные Игрушки) and much talked-of british band The xx with their oh so simple but pleasant melodies. An interesting and even surprising interpretation of Caribou‘s “Sun” is given by a young artist called Altrice who has reworked all the tracks from the “Swim” LP and has issued them all in his own album “Stem”.

We could not pass by the new full-lenght album from UK’s White Lies, majestic synth-pop delivered by Brooklyn-based Light Asylum duo, and honeysweet “hypnagogic pop” by Ariel Pink and Toro y Moi (once again, US guys). We hope you won’t overlook these almost radio-friendly hip-hop takes made by Fake Four Records artists Ron Contour and Deadpan Darling, blues-alike passages of Fin Greenall (known as Fink as well as Sideshow) and Damon Aaron music’s superfine tissue. This is his lullaby tune we decided to be last in the mix (for the second time !)

Thanx for support !

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electronic | indie pop | uk garage | deep house | bard | chillwave | soul