Really beautiful and soothing sounds from this young (no pun intended) guitarist / producer / composer based out of NYC.
Guitar work reminiscent of Bibio mixed with beats ranging in tempo from hip-hop to frenzied footwork, all layered together with a soulful glow of atmospheric texture. Definitely worth listening to all the tunes on his soundcloud & downloading all the tunes (for whatever price you want) on his bandcamp.
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Today we release The Big Dip, debut album of The Range. Real name James Hinton, The Range is a 23-year-old producer from Providence, RI with a facility for melding frenzied footwork percussion and melodic R’n'B vocal cut-ups to generate rich, emotional bass music for the bedroom and the club.
The Big Dip is a thunderous album. On tracks like ‘Distractions’ and ‘Blind Spot,’ sub kicks flip effortlessly between ice cold crunk and scorching footwork riddims, with buzzing snare rushes, cowbells, glass hits, rimshots, toms, timbales, and a slew of hand claps up top. The result is the orchestration of a totally percussive sound, as baroque as it is sparing, precise, clinical.
Having musically come up listening to mid-day shows on Baltimore’s 92Q, Hinton is no stranger to the expressive soulful vocals of classic R’n'B. The infectious cut up and repurposed vocal melodies on tracks like ‘Motivate’ and ‘A Solitudinous Diptych’ open up a warped pop dimension that is Hinton’s unique addition to the footwork meme.
Ultimately, in its icy synth timbres and machinic percussion there’s a cold post-humanity to this release, which befits the rapidly descending winter around us here in New York. The Big Dip is your new go-to album for breaking the highway speed limit in a blizzard.
Previously, Hinton released under his alias stegosaurus a full-length entitled cower on his own imprint Sqwal Recordings. More recently as The Range he remixed the title track of Kuhn’s Slime Beach EP for Civil Music and howse’s ‘bangsless’ for Astro Nautico.
Stream/download The Big Dip at our Bandcamp:
Follow The Range on Twitter and Soundcloud.
UXO is one of the most respected and artistically mature beatmakers in Italy. His aesthetic is deeply spacey, influenced by free-jazz, Kosmische Musik, raw psychedelia and J Dilla instrumental hip hop. He produces cuts that goes from minimal dub, to greasy brown funk, to aethereal psychedelic ambient. He runs a personal web-label, Queenspectra, through which he releases mixtapes, singles, remixes based on his solo work or collabo like Go Savant! (with Grillo), or (((VERSUS))) a remix album with a lot of guest to check out. He’s working right now with Digi G’Alessio on a split album which is going to be released very very soon.
“Savant Ain’t Idiot” is his livemix for Astronautico through which he will share with the listener his Cosmic Vision made of Scifunk and Spacebass.
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Quick little vid I made for the Force Funk‘s track “Auntie” from his latest release, Demo Riot Control.
It was just outed it in a Kuhn mini-interview for Electronic Beats, so it’s time to announce it here: our next and final release of 2011 will be The Range‘s debut LP entitled The Big Dip, set to drop here Dec. 12.
The Range is James Hinton, a 23-year-old producer from Providence, RI with a facility for melding frenzied footwork percussion and melodic R’n'B vocal cut-ups to generate rich hybrid hyperspeed sing-along bass music for the lonely and ADHD.
The Range - A Solitudinous Diptych by Astro Nautico
Previous to The Big Dip, Hinton released a full-length entitled cower on his own imprint Sqwal Recordings under alter alias stegosaurus. More recently as The Range he remixed the title track of Kuhn’s Slime Beach EP for Civil Music (stream below) and howse’s ‘bangsless’ on his trakz EP (in our catalog, ASTR006).
Kuhn-Slime Beach (The Range Remix) by sqwalrecordings/therange
howse-bangsless (the range remix) by sqwalrecordings/therange
Featuring original cover artwork by Paul Jones, The Big Dip will be available free at www.astronautico.bandcamp.com on Dec. 12.
TRACKLISTING
01 . . . Motivate (5:56)
02 . . . A Solitudinous Dyptich (4:04)
03 . . . Me Without You (3:00)
04 . . . The Big Dip (4:44)
05 . . . Blind Spot (1:55)
06 . . . Distractions (4:55)
07 . . . Lonely (1:51)
08 . . . Disjoint (3:44)
RDBN (pronounced “Red Bone”) is a mysterious beat-maker & visual artist based in Brooklyn via Philadelphia. He makes crunchy experimental beats using only an SP-303, stacks of vinyl & some sparse synthesizers. They are full of off-kilter drums, fuzz, and raw energy - sort of like this mix.
For this mix, which is entitled “Shoot Your Television,” RDBN selects a diverse & eclectic, yet uniformly raw and exciting, blend of tunes ranging from hip-hop, no-wave & psychedelic to Based God himself.
Additionally, he recently released a little four-track sampling of some of his styles that you can stream over at his bandcamp.
Stay tuned for more music from RDBN in the near future via Astro Nautico.
Another mix from ya Astro boyz - just whipped this one up for my dude SOTR in affiliation with Vane for their Vanity Jukebox mix series.
Obey City is that white boy we’ve all encountered in our neighborhood with too much soul to contain. He’s similar to other modern blue-eyed producer & performers such as Javelin, Onra, and Machinedrum, who keep it electric and weird yet so funky and accessible at the same time. He’s got an ear for classic R&B and hip-hop to accompany his love for progressive house, juke and future garage music. Obey’s DJ sets are typically bright and on the obscure side, as if space travel was open to explore by the public without proper training & certification. Obey City just wants to have fun at his own pace by teasing you with various smooth tracks for any joyous occasion. Buckle up, enjoy the ride and try not to spill your drink or your ice cream!
TRACKLISTING
1. Endgames – Ecstacy (Jam City Edit)
2. Obey City – Boom Boom Carz (Bootleg)
3. Canblaster – Air Totem
4. Myrryrs – Paradis Parka
5. MORRI$ – Affairs
6. 123Mrk – Invisible Colors
7. DJ Funeral – Bounce Dat
8. Addison Groove – Make Um Bounce
9. Mosca – Bax
10. Solid Groove & Sinden – Overbooked
11. Young L – Beating Up That Block
12. Salva – Obsession (feat. B Bravo)
13. Dro Carey – Much Coke (Cedaa Remix)
14. DJ Jay Hood – High School Anthem
15. Obey City – IDID (Dub)
16. xxxy – Bodymoving (VIP)
17. LOL Boys – BANG THEM
18. DIstal – Grape Donut
19. Joker – Electric Sea (Instrumental)
20. A$AP Rocky – Wassup
Stream it first & then download it if you’d like here
New Kuhn mix up on London-based bass blog Hyponik today featuring unreleased tracks from Astro Nautico artists under hidden monikers, historic jungle tunes as well some dubs from London and West Coast brethren such as Young Montana? and Matthewdavid.
“Young talent abounds on our latest mix, as we’re welcomed into the multi-faceted world of young Brooklyn talent Kuhn, a man who’s deeply colourful take on world bass looks set to blow up in 2012.
Following a number of self-released free EPs that explored the outer realms of the current bass sound with a sound that took influence from the likes of early jungle, deep South hip-hop and the twisting rhythmics of dark garage, 22 year old Bennett Kuhn is currently sitting on a slew of tracks that push the 2011 template even further. His current ‘Slime Beach’ EP, released via London’s Civil Music, is the first in a series of new EP’s from the young producer, which is winning him fans across the global bass spectrum, from San Franciscan tech-house don Claude Von Stroke, through to the likes of Om Unit and Rinse FM’s Alexander Nut.
His Hyp mix is a sprawling, beat heavy affair that takes in great work from some of our very favourite new artists, whilst tipping its hat that classic jungle sound with tracks from Phillip D. Kick and Ray Keith. Don’t sleep…”
Tracklist:
01. Kuhn – Railroad (Intro)
02. Blank & Kytt – Same Old
03. Rimar – World Drop
04. Shoulda – On My Roost
05. Raja – Go Back To Sleep
06. Dreams – OooOooo
07. Miami Jungle Vice – In Dreamz
08. Ray Keith – Renegade Terrorist
09. Remarc – R.I.P. (Phillip D. Kick Edit)
10. (Derrick May Interview)
11. Kuhn – U Can’t
12. Phanes – Lucky Woman
13. Matthewdavid – stealing_sahara_1
14. Young Montana? – Bonsoir
15. Kuhn – Bombing Oyster Bay (Outro)
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