These are all reviews and articles tagged with "Downbeat".
Category: Electronica-Indietronic | Hip Hop
Hardboiled Electronic Hip Hop | Niteffect is back with an 30-minutes length EP for the German Kreislauf Netlabel. While his former “Fragments” EP was more like a glimpse of Miklos Labady’s talent for hypnotic beats, “Lost Identity” is the prove of his qualities in songwriting, too. Ten songs that oscillate from Downbeat to instrumental Hip [...]
Category: Downbeat
Driving Downbeats | Sometimes music hits you like a rock. “Nightline” is an album with exactly that special ability. Produced by Alexander Lisovsky under the moniker Djet, released on the conceptual Label Picomedia. The “Nightline” features all the things, that are missing in this days: driving beats, interesting soundscapes and wandering grooves to explore. All [...]
Category: Downbeat
Smoking Chicago Downbeats | Joshua Keckner aka Lokua produces downbeats with crackling beats sprinkled with jazzy melodies and a laid-back mood. The Chicago native enjoys creating moody atmospheres from smiling tracks like “A Thousand Pages” to darker vibes like in “Crystal Ball” where haunting voices make you shiver a little bit. Lokua – “Thousand Pages” [...]
Downbeats in Cinemascope | In “A Day in the Life (feat. INC)” young Dutch producer Crookram rolls out sweet and melancholic strings to catch us. In “Biggles” we swing ecstatic on happy piano-loops while the Bigbeat makes us sweat. And breath the dark and heavy mooded “Hostile” with me. Crookram digged deep into sounds from [...]
Category: Trip Hop
Australian Trip Hop Vibes | Velure is a quintet in the footsteps of Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, or Portishead. With muscled beats ranging from Hip Hop to Drum’n'Bass Velure make a stand and and crawl slowly under our skin. If I listen to this netaudio classic I always get caught by the haunting voice of Lynnelle [...]
Category: Downbeat
Exquisite Downbeats | The Incognito Traveller stands in the tradition of Downbeat-producers like Kruder & Dorfmeister, St. Germain or Thievery Corporation. Jazzy rhyhtms, organic sounds and everywhere a touch of crackling vinyl samples. The production from Mexico is well-crafted and you have the feeling each song tells you a little story. Konfort did it again [...]
