Various releases this week use downtempo genres in order to express the slow, deliberate construction of an optimistic worldview. Reasons for hope and happiness are sometimes sought very far from home.
Yesterday saw the release of our double album, "Antique/Astral," dedicated to the work of thirty young beatmakers. Here we offer a little context to their careers and current efforts.
New instrumental hip-hop from St Petersburg, Saratov, and Minsk offers a range of comforts - in the face of daily woes. Both political and physical failings are corrected with ease
Locky-Stocky and Helmut & the Call are stylistically different projects, playing abstract hip-hop and lo-fi indie pop. Nonetheless, what connects them is a similar outlook on life's inevitabilities - and the value of surprise
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