Pilerats – Rat Pack #2
This [free] Pilerats compilation is one of the easiest sell-ins I’ve ever chosen to write about and has absolutely everything going for it. A cracking tracklisting of primarily Australian electronic artists and a smattering of well curated internationals, all delivering jams both strong and diverse. Sable opens the release up with a heavily affected rendition of Fitty Cent’s Birthday and from there onwards you fairly well understand that anything and everything is on the table. Second off the block is UV Boi who has deviated only slightly from his original production of Thank U and the results are, well, quite similar to the original (read: pretty good).
Halfway through the thing we get to one of my highlights, an immaculately crafted banger from Time Pilot, a Perth duo who’ve made a living on the back of only one or two songs so far. Got a hunch they’ll be drawing eyes in 2015 though. Straight after that’n is a complete and utter jam from Moon Boots of which we will not speak because it is an overseas artist and thus repulsive and unlistenable.
Brisbane R&B gent Floria has a rare original placed at the tail of the comp but the true conclusion is a brand spanking new Lower Spectrum track called ‘Séance’ that, while not a game changer, sees Ned Beckley sitting atop a cloud of arpeggiated saw-synths lobbing thunderbolts down on the unsuspecting gen pop. He’s got a fairly loyal following who are willingly flying kites in the storm but this dude needs to cross over in a big way – commercial radio is an impossibility but some sort of Jamie xx style mythology wouldn’t go undeserved. Plenty of time for that still.
Artists you need to know rn
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