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Sounds like:
Jamie xx,
Chrome Sparks
By
Jason Grishkoff
on
Nov 16, 2023
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When this song landed in my lap it was tagged as "balearic beat." Cool genre name, I thought. And after hitting play... "even cooler song," I thought.The song itself is actually fairly simple and straightforward in its general melodic development. Bu...
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2

Sounds like:
Washed Out,
Arms and Sleepers,
HNNY
By
Dylan Heneck
on
Aug 5, 2020
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Take me to whatever sad beach this is. Another gloomy day by the shore. Just me, my typewriter, and Southern Shores' Siena (Part 1)on the HiFi.This song has so many influences that I love. HNNY. Washed Out. Dirty A...
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3

Sounds like:
Mark Barrott,
Sports Casual,
Seb Wildblood
By
RSkotarczyk
on
Apr 4, 2018
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Recall the recent review of Sports Casual - "A Higher Place"? We had a new artist called Sports Casual, a mellow balearic house track, and all we knew was the name of an obscure so-new-it-doesn't-even-have-a-release-yet label called, Exotic Robotics....
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4

By
RSkotarczyk
on
Mar 29, 2018
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Over the past few weeks I've been having quite a time trying to find music to review that I like. Usually, stumbling on some sonic magic doesn't take me that long, but if I start to breach a half hour or more of searching and nothing has snagged me, ...
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5

Sounds like:
Pool Boy,
Mark Barrott,
Ben La Desh,
Seb Wildblood
By
RSkotarczyk
on
Mar 12, 2018
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Could be that my fatigue is making "A Higher Place" just what I need, or it could be my on going obsession with balearic house, but whatever the case, Sports Casual is truly lifting me to a higher place.
Pan flutes, exotic wood instrumentation, bird...
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6

Sounds like:
Mark Barrott,
D.K.,
A Vision of Panorama
By
RSkotarczyk
on
Jan 30, 2018
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Here's another from the Pool Boy LP because I think it's super rad.
Recently we posted another track from this LP called "Deluxe Oceanview" and mentioned that Pool Boy was keeping the wraps on his identity. We were pretty sure it was Cyril Hann, bu...
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7

Sounds like:
Cyril Hann,
Seb Wildblood,
Mark Barrot,
A Vision of Panorama
By
RSkotarczyk
on
Jan 21, 2018
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Who is Pool Boy?
Apparently "Deluxe Oceanview" was created in, and inspired by, a coastal Vancouver view, but the label upon which Pool Boy LP was released (Coastal Haze) is keeping the identity of the producer a secret.
Why? Who knows, but for a ...
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8

Sounds like:
Mark Barrot,
Taches,
Jay Daniel
By
RSkotarczyk
on
Nov 15, 2017
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This past weekend I visited an enchanted forest. There were waterfalls, deep gullies, hidden stone steps, the greenest moss you've ever seen, and miles and miles of trees. Sounds magical, doesn't it?
So does D.K.'s "Leaving".
Enjoy.
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