Scottish electronic producer Sam Gellaitry has returned with his shimmering new compilation ‘Viewfinder, Vol 1: Phosphene’. Across 12 tracks he showcases the extreme talent that garnered him vast attention on Soundcloud and got him signed to LA-based pioneers Soulection at just 18 years of age. At still only 22 this new project is Gellaitry at his best showing where he is been and where he is going. Tracks like ‘Phosphrous’, ‘Viewfinder’, and ‘Neptune’ are vintage Gellaitry bringing the bass-heavy kicks and 808’s combined with the sweeping synths and distorted vocals that helped make his name through tr’acks like ‘Long Distance’…
Author: Scott Boarer
The enigmatic alt-pop / electronic duo Jadu Heart return with their first offering of 2019, ‘Purity’. The duo signed to Mura Masa’s Anchor Point records continue their steady flow of releases into the new year, ahead of Manchester and London shows at the end of April. The track opens with a dreamy acoustic guitar melody accompanied with the spaced-out vocals you associate with the duo from records like ‘The Love’ and ‘I’m a Kid’ sucking the listener into a trance. As always, the vocals are provided by both Alex and Diva, the way they complement each other will always be…
My first experience with Jay Prince’s music came in the opening weeks of university when I heard the pitstop pitched up gospel sample and booming kick drum of Prince’s ‘father, father’ blaring out my new flatmate’s room. Immediately I was drawn to his sound for its distinctive feel-good melodies and snapping drums. Since then Prince has gone to release well-received projects ‘Late Summers’ (2017) and ‘cherish’ (2018). Both helped establish the artist as one of East London’s biggest talents. He has grown a loyal fanbase across Europe and the US going to show the large-scale appeal of the unique sound…
On the outro to JID’s song ‘Workin Out’ Zack Fox called on J. Cole to “spend some of that Dreamville money”. Now at the start of 2019 Cole, rapper and head of the record label, Dreamville is doing just that, but not in the club as Fox intended. J. Cole and his roster of marquee talent from the label including; J.I.D, Bas, Cozz, Ari Lennox and Earthgang have locked themselves in the studio in Atlanta for ten days (from the 6th of Jan to the 16th) to create the third instalment of ‘Revenge of the Dreamers’ (ROTD3). Dreamville dominated 2018…
2018 was a great year for music, especially for Hip-Hop which dominated the charts as music’s top genre. Drake’s ‘Scorpion’, Pusha T’s ‘Daytona’ and Kanye Wests ‘Ye’ all made headlines on release and peaked at number 1, 3 and 1 respectively on the Billboard charts. However, away from the mainstream charts and ‘Album of the year’ debates lies Saba’s album ‘Care for Me.’ It was underappreciated in the USA and almost completely ignored in the UK. The fast-rising Chicago rapper returned in 2018 with his second studio album and his finest body of work so far. Written in the aftermath…