After his first release in Monotonik on 2007, the 'Grating Rainbows'
EP, we are absolutely delighted to present a long in-development full
album -- 'Sprinkling Rainbows' from the UK resident Bitbasic, whose
super-funky drill and bass attitude to jazzy electronica makes it one
of our favorite label releases of the last few years.
In a
similar fashion to earlier Monotonik releases like Aleksi Virta's
album, 'Grating Rainbows' cuts up the jazzy breaks with the electronic
in entirely alluring ways, with 'Flannel' a great initial example of
the headnodding, sometimes brain-scrambling stylings. There's even
tremendously evocative Bent-style spaced-out melodies of tracks like
'Blueish'.
With a full album to choose from, you can yoyo easily
between the super fast, funky breaks of 'Realization' and the sinewave
bleeps of 'Monos', before it all ends up with an entirely unexpected,
glorious funk attack, as a super-chilled cover of 'Ain't No Sunshine'
starts going terribly, terribly wrong half-way through. And it's
awesome.
Once again, thanks to Bitbasic for letting us put out
this album under a Creative Commons license, and we hope you dig it and
check out
his website for his latest gigs, EPs, single tracks, and other goodness.
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