For me, it was a seminal shift in the way I dealt with experiences – from there on out, they became much more personal, more introverted. I felt things there, things I had never felt before, that feeling was fresh and bright, as it was dark. Zima is one of the most beautiful tunes ever … Continue reading Sultan + Shepard with Delhia de France – Zima
Across the ether, filled with enchantment, structured to comfortably lay back my head with a warm set of hands, tucking an emancipated blanket of aroma around me, then stepping away as I drift off into the soft welcoming hypnotic sweetening of my soul. You will quickly discover that Losing Ground has a nearly physical presence, … Continue reading Sultan + Shepard with Tishmal – Losing Ground
A moment that engulfed me in a series of flowering fairy tales that slowly ebbed and washed over me with luscious fuzzed out desire, morphing with enticing visuals that swirled and simmered with passion and delight. Voodoo makes me float high above the clouds and into the atmosphere that holds together all that I know … Continue reading Tinlicker & Ben Böhmer – Voodoo
Always progressing from one rendezvous to the next just by me getting older physically and spiritually, I think my last one was pretty epic, and on this one I’ve had even more time to make it, and I didn’t feel as much in a rush. 9 Days has a floating-cloud slide synth with Julia bending … Continue reading Nils Hoffmann feat. Julia Church – 9 Days
World Away is a really dark, refreshing, and historic tune in the making. It makes me believe that I’ve been waiting my entire life for it. The tune is dreamy, floating me on a neo-psychedelic river of sound – it’s nearly impossible to describe something so pure. On the surface, the music of World Away … Continue reading Oliver Wickham – World Away
Låpsley’s lyrics spark the tune to life, as her voice surrounds the desire of a woman who’s relationship has ended. Like I Used To is beyond laid back, cooler than cool, even relaxed and resounding, drawing me in with each listen until I’m totally immersed. I sit here with my mouth open, the perfect meld … Continue reading Steve Weston feat. Låpsley – Like I Used To
It would be easy to suggest that this rendezvous was a product of another time, dripping with morning dew, romantic meditations on stillness, tugging at my shirtsleeves while indulging me with a pleasant bodily heaviness, bringing a sly sleepy nod to my eyes as I strain to pay attention. Slowly pushes the concept of music … Continue reading Yotto – Slowly
Some moments you control, some moments control you, yet every once in a while a someone floats into your life that’s so unexpected, a feeling ebbs and flows like warm waves lapping at the beach – like the concentric circles that flow back from a stone skipped across a pond. And suddenly you are wrapped … Continue reading Kaskade & Colette – When I’m With You
Dirty Inc. is a heartfelt construction, a re-interpretation of all those moments I loved and admired about that time, turned a bit sideways and skewed, as seen through fresh eyes. Yet… when all is said and done, artificial or not, it feels captivatingly alive and real. Dirty Inc. is nearly flawless, though if you were … Continue reading Enviado Vida – Dirty Inc.
Champaquí is a delightful tune that carries enough weight and has enough new edges to hold my attention. Yet in its being, it would be easy to argue that this tune is superior to most progressive tunes out there. I’m absolutely smitten with the smooth laid back emotional quality, to which I can only dance … Continue reading Flexible Fire – Champaquí
Those richly textured breezy easy-going seamless reveries of yesteryears brought to light today seem like deeply romantic meditations on stillness, space and the splendour of the moments I was once in. How it had brought out confident tonalities that step outside of what I would normally expect. Should Have Seen It Coming rides nicely into … Continue reading Franky Wah feat. AETHO – Should Have Seen It Coming (Yotto Remix)
Straight from Australia and into your heart, One Minute Longer ventures into the atmospheric realm of shimmering harmonic instrumentation and deeply lush vocals designed to spirit you into the night, where tender earthbound songs resound, recounting an honesty so seldom heard in today’s music. One Minute Longer hauntingly delivers, setting my soul on fire with … Continue reading Approaching Black & Brandon Mignacca – One Minute Longer (Instrumental Mix)
Odsen’s material is certainly interesting, notable and breaks new ground in Deep House. It has a deeply familiar feel to it, a patchwork that floats effortlessly, a tune filled with comfortable synths to slap a mile-wide smile across your face. In My Bones is designed to rapture your wayward ears and will pound from your … Continue reading Odsen – In My Bones
Jelly is laced with depth and character and is nothing short of transformative. I found it to be an awakening of emotion spurred on by sonically muted tonalities that nearly insisted on lulling me into a narcotic haze of relaxation. It will make you sit back with a sly smile of intuitive understanding, making you … Continue reading Meeting Molly – Jelly
Marsh designed Wasn’t Enough to create a floating dynamic musical soundscape, that effectively enhances that inner journey, all while setting the pace for the floor that was shifting under one’s feet, along with the ceiling that was floating away, leaving listeners lost in the matrix-ed air they were breathing! To say the this tune simply … Continue reading Marsh – Wasn’t Enough
Daylight is a true sonic marvel – rich, varied, beautiful, filled with lush and simple melodies. You will be inclined to venture into those magical harmonies and bigger than life presentations that make up this tune, where you feel forever out of reach, etherial in the fact they are unable to be memorably captured. Oddly enough, … Continue reading Luttrell – Daylight
Generate, perhaps more than any other of Luttrell’s tunes seems fashioned with rustic confidence designed to glide. But that’s only half the story, as entirely unexpectedly, the tune shifts gears during the breakdown, upping into flowering distortion, where the synths seemingly twist and turn around each other, around each note, all filtered through a heavy … Continue reading Luttrell – Generate
What You Are is laden with dreamy delightful synths along with washed out blissed vocals, all woven together through a series of evenhanded textures designed to deliver a kaleidoscope of sounds, some expected, some not, though all going down like a syrupy medication designed to lay waste your soul. Luttrell is a genius in the … Continue reading Luttrell – What You Are
Böhmer, Malou and Sentir clearly set out to create a tune of purity and simplicity in this tune. Lost In Mind has notes flowing and flowering into the next with effortless emancipation of lightness and grace. Every synth and every beat has been designed to be understated yet ever-present, riding on a smooth current that … Continue reading Ben Böhmer & Malou – Lost In Mind (Volen Sentir Vision)
The story behind this ethereally blissful tune is that of the space capsule Nightwhisper drifting off its planned orbit, ebbing into uncharted regions of the cosmos, beaming back these haunting yet beautifully lost transmissions, letting anyone interested, anyone paying attention, know that they are still out there and alive, and though lost, seeming to be … Continue reading Jody Wisternoff & James Grant – Nightwhisper
Counting Down The Days always sweeps me away with a gentle hand, where Gemma’s voice fills the tune with soothing melodies and heartfelt lyrics. Yet it wasn’t until Yotto’s rehash ebbed from my speakers that I came face to face with a new vision. This tune is carefully crafted with passion for a wondrous effect. … Continue reading Above & Beyond feat. Gemma Hayes – Counting Down The Days (Yotto Remix)