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  • Extra Patience (After Sebald) by The Caretaker A new, free mini-album from one of ambient music’s most interesting producers right now, the Caretaker. It seems to be a collection of odds and ends from the project’s latest collection of songs, Patience (After Sebald), but still makes for an

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    I’m not single. I actually haven’t been single for around three years now. Still, this new beat from xxyyxx still brings out those “forever alone” feelings everybody’s had at one point or another. A beautiful and pitch-shifted vocal sample loops against a beat that’s interesting for

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    A new instrumental from the beatmusic project Tortilla Pass. This time, we’re getting a bit of Indian flavors coming through on some sitars and vocal samples. The end result is pretty chilled. Diggin’ it.

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    A new instrumental from the beatmusic project Tortilla Pass. This time, we’re getting a bit of Indian flavors coming through on some sitars and vocal samples. The end result is pretty chilled. Diggin’ it.

  • On his latest EP, the Books member Nick Zammuto deals in the same experimental sounds that made his main band’s previous album so great. I will say the singer-songwriter element of the three songs on this release is more prevalent, though. WATCH THE REVIEW

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    Click the widget above and grab a full stream of the new Zammuto EP, Idiom Wind. Zammuto is, of course, Nick Zammuto of the experimental music duo the Books. This new EP is out now via the UK label Make Mine, and features an exciting combination of original instrumentation, samples,

  • Just a few days ago, I was hyping the new single Zammuto is set to drop next month in the UK. Well, now you can stream the whole thing via SoundCloud. Nice!

  • Anybody Can Be Cool…But Awesome Takes Practice by Pig Pen New beat tape from Detroit producer Pig Pen. I’m currently three tracks into this thing, and I’ve got to say this dude is pretty diverse. The swirling, electronic keyboards are a fun and surprising switch from the

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    C3 by 3:33 From the looks of 3:33’s album artwork, you’d think this project was some sort of rising black metal band. Well, if the previous sentence didn’t already make it obvious, that’s not the case. Still, the music 3:33 creates is undeniably

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    Skipping Rocks by Oddisee DC hip hop producer Oddisee has a new album of instrumentals out that tributes his favorite spot in the capital city: Rock Creek Park. With both samples and live instrumentation, Oddisee tries–and succeeds, really–at recreating what the place means to him through song. Stream