We've made it to another month, and since it's the first Friday, that means it's Bandcamp day! Once again Bandcamp is waiving its revenue share today, passing 100% of all purchases to the artists. And again that means I'm doing an all Bandcamp edition of
Enlightened Listening. Find all 16 releases (listed alphabetically) below and check out the following paragraphs for highlights and play-by-play.
A recommendation from
Boy 8-Bit opens the onslaught of new tunes with
Adrian Carter's "
Suzette." Next up is an uber-cool album from Cinephonic who delivers some stunning jazz in a fabulous cinematic style. The first of two from the
Defected family follows as
Endor samples Beethoven for a cheeky house affair.
Freeza Chin then gets icy with a five-pack of beats inspired by his time in Hawaii. Another equatorial inspiration follows as
Hammer makes use of Costa Rican recordings, combining them with his synths to make a mystical medley of disco, house and techno.
Finally,
Horse Meat Disco's album is here! Gracing Glitterbox,
Love And Dancing is exactly the kind of uplifting and revitalizing music we need right now.
Hot Chip keep things moving with a massive (mix) album of their own.
Late Night Tales features three new exclusive tracks and a cover version, alongside a mix of their favourite euphoric and melancholic tracks. Keeping disco on the tip,
The Vision follow with a remix (and dub/edit) of Jakatta and Seal's sublime "My Vision."
Flipping the playlist on its head, we roll towards a handful of harder rocking releases. First up, John Rolodex delivers a six-pack of sensational DnB joints.
Lunice then gets mean with Miko through thrash and bash affair "
Calm Down." Ghetto and juke guide the next release as
Martyn Bootyspoon re-releases four banging bootlegs with proceeds going to Molly De Wind, who suffered domestic violence at the hands of Vanity Press Records' David Marroquin (story
here). Two more brooding bootleg/remix/edit packs follow as
Monstergetdown and
OAKK deliver jungle/techno/bassline and bass/hip hop/juke, respectively.
The first of the final three releases in this week's playlist comes from
Ryan Hemsworth who delivers another edition of his acclaimed edit series. Here he takes on Avril Lavigne, No Doubt, Hillary Duff and many more. And act quick as this is only going to be online for 24 hours (as he said at 12:04 AM EDT). The penultimate release then follows as
Kudatah delivers a massive 22 track compilation of ambient, DnB, jungle, techno and vaporwave. Finally,
Wraz wraps things up with two ominous and depth-defying dub/DnB hybrids.
Adrian Carter - Suzette
Cinephonic - Les Paradis Artificiels
Endor - Fur
Freeza Chin - Zip Pac
Hammer - Montezuma
Horse Meat Disco - Love And Dancing
Hot Chip - Late Night Tales
Jakatta ft. Seal - My Vision (The Vision Remix)
John Rolodex - The Rainmaker
Lunice - Calm Down (ft. Miko)
Martyn Bootyspoon - BOOTYLEG001
Monstergetdown - Weapons V8
OAKK - Remixes & Edits Vol. 02
Ryan Hemsworth - RYANPACK VOL 3
Various Artists - Kudatah: Vol. 3
Wraz - Wormhole
