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Sounds like:
J Dilla,
The Avalanches
Why do we like this?
Gotta love UK beat master Darren Williams, aka Star Slinger. His latest full-length album, Volume 1, was released last year and seems to have been overlooked by a lot of people outside the UK. On this album, you will find numerous tracks of clean sampling and mixes that use 80s, 90s, funk, hip-hop, R&B, disco, and reggae. Slinger takes different tracks, chops them up, slows them down or speeds them up, and combines them.
Williams revives the 80s, only he gives everything a dusty coating and a layer of crackle, creating something completely new and marvelous. Some tracks were reportedly made in the comfort of his own bed in the early hours of the morning and others were made not long after waking. Darren believes that routine and weekend culture aren't his forte, and creating music at any given moment is how he approaches his projects.
Although Volume II is in the works, Slinger has recently released a free 6-track EP titled Rogue Cho Pa via Mexican Summer. This EP features plenty of heavy chopped up vocals and enough funky beats, bright rhythms and fresh fragmentation to send you into a climactic state of motion.
Aside from his own projects, Williams is also doing a side project called Seeing Suge with San Francisco's Blackbird Blackbird and Canadian rapper Emay on an album appropriately called Collaborations. The first single that has been released is "Breaking," featuring Blackbird Blackbird's frontman Mikey Sanders with background vocals and Emay with some profound lyrics.
Star Slinger started touring Europe in December 2010 and will tour the US with Baths and Braids in February 2011.
Check out the video for "Mornin" below:
Williams revives the 80s, only he gives everything a dusty coating and a layer of crackle, creating something completely new and marvelous. Some tracks were reportedly made in the comfort of his own bed in the early hours of the morning and others were made not long after waking. Darren believes that routine and weekend culture aren't his forte, and creating music at any given moment is how he approaches his projects.
Although Volume II is in the works, Slinger has recently released a free 6-track EP titled Rogue Cho Pa via Mexican Summer. This EP features plenty of heavy chopped up vocals and enough funky beats, bright rhythms and fresh fragmentation to send you into a climactic state of motion.
Aside from his own projects, Williams is also doing a side project called Seeing Suge with San Francisco's Blackbird Blackbird and Canadian rapper Emay on an album appropriately called Collaborations. The first single that has been released is "Breaking," featuring Blackbird Blackbird's frontman Mikey Sanders with background vocals and Emay with some profound lyrics.
Star Slinger started touring Europe in December 2010 and will tour the US with Baths and Braids in February 2011.
Check out the video for "Mornin" below:
Streaming source:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1osmNEp2XGc
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