The Electronica Brief is a recurring article with electronic music picks by faculty member Vico Vault. The picks don’t have to be new releases, they just have to be worthy of recommendation.
Today’s tags are #melodic #uplifting #instrumental with a little bit of #acid. I’ve compiled a mix of my favorite tracks from each of the picks:
MNLTH – Time
Also check out similar releases from Monolith and Dave Monolith.
https://soundcloud.com/dave-monolith/sets/mnlth-time-ep
pilotredsun – Achievement
Bandcamp success story pilotredsun’s debut LP is FULL of #uplifting #melodic tracks.
https://pilotredsun.bandcamp.com/album/achievement
Kettel – Wingtip
Kettel has been releasing for a while but this is his best work so far. Seamless blend of moving classical and upbeat IDM electronic.
Roy of the Ravers – 2 Late 4 Love
This #acid album has Ceephax as a collaborator and offers up 11-minute feely track Emotinium.
https://acidwaxa.bandcamp.com/album/2-late-4-love
Global Goon – Rivers
I’m still making my way through GG’s 45+ song album Activision from last year, so it’s nice to hear a succinct focused EP from him. Rivers is more on the #ambient #uplifting side but there’s plenty of #melodic in there. GG has a habit of removing things from his bandcamp, so maybe grab this one while it’s up.
https://j-hok.bandcamp.com/album/rivers
EOD – Volume 2
Both Volume 1 and Volume 2 are full of #melodic #uplifting tracks, with a heavy dose of #acid.
https://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/album/volume-2
https://eodtracks.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1
See you next month.
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Vico Vault is an artist and freelance web developer in Pacifica, CA. Some of his recent projects include making a sequencer for minimalist electronic music, coding a web browser that only crawls Tumblr for images, and creating a bookmarklet that scrambles website layouts. He has released over 10 albums of electronic music, and cofounded the netlabel Gridwalk Media.
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