Archive for August, 2014
Black Vanilla (recently returned victorious from a Splendour In The Grass set) are back with a track that is perfect for all you middle class whiteys who want to feel somewhat less middle class whitey. SMACKS is (according to the hollered vocals of the song itself) ‘the antidote’. The antidote to what exactly? Maybe to ‘chill’ music. Maybe to ‘nice’ music. Maybe to MUSIC ITSELF.
What we here at SoundDoc just bloody love about Black Vanilla is the singularity of vision you hear in their releases. The tracks are always so focused, every note and lyric filled with more aggressive sneer than a coalition backbencher driving through Mt Druitt.
2050 years ago Cicero wrote ‘What is there for which mortal man may wish that he did not attain?’ and I think with the advent of free downloads, we can finally put that question to bed with the answer: nothing. Listen and download here.
Medium punch teams up with Matt On The Moon here which is big news for anyone familiar with the individual work of either artist as well as anyone who is simply a fan of people working together and human cooperation. Very appealing are those trackpad double kicks and crunchy textures on the snare, the work of Medium Punch who is the producer half of this pairing. Anyone who styles themself on an arcade fighter reference is already kicking goals before the song even begins. The song is fairly split in two with the first half based around a footwork rhythm and the second something closer to the Key Sungs, Movements or Collarbones’s's’s in its sultry downtempo groove. I need to listen to this a few more times to decide if I love that vocal or not but, at the absolute minimum, it’s an interesting first offering from two artists I’d previously not heard of.
Artists you need to know rn
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| 2. Voidhood | |
259 | 3. jamesjamesjames | |
186 | 4. Zan | |
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| 5. Sesame Girl | |
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