With releases coming and going out of the Stoney Roads MP3 section so fast recently, we’re aware that lots of fantastic EPs and albums become history after just a few days. For most of you, we realise it’s impossible to listen to everything. So in the interest of making it easier for everyone to catch up, from now on, twice each month we’ll be posting our 10 favourite releases from that half if you’ve been too busy to listen to new beats during the week, with streaming links, label info and a place for you to cop it.
So, here’s part one of December’s Top 10 – it’s been a very good fortnight for releases as you can see – check out last fortnight’s post here. If there’s something you think should be in this list chuck it in the comments section below!
Label: Hyperdub
Genre: Awesome
Score: 9.5/10
“Outstanding – haunting, beautiful and goosebump worthy.”
Stream here or purchase on Hyperdub
Max Cooper feat. Katherine deBoer – Adrift
Label: FIELDS
Genre: Electronica
Score: 9/10
“Pushes some of Max’s most delicate percussion and sound design yet – the tune takes his melancholic style to a whole new territory of starkly elegant beauty.”
Stream here or purchase on Beatport
Mumdance & Logos – Proto / Legion
Label: Tectonic
Genre: Techno
Score: 7.5/10
“The two explore more experimental areas of grime and techno than their usual work, despite their previous unions already being classed as super weird space music.”
Stream here or purchase on Beatport
Distal & Mite – Concrete Space
Label: Embassy
Genre: Bass
Score: 8/10
“10 tracks of bass-laden house and rave-filtered techno; Distal’s half favours 808-heavy, rave-rap reconfigurations while Mite’s acid house / techno mutations are more meditative.
Stream here or purchase at Beatport
Label: Apollo / R&S
Genre: Electronica
Score: 8/10
“Mind-affecting midnight electronica.”
Stream here or purchase on R&S
Killawatt – Bring Down The Walls
Label: Osiris Music
Genre: Techno / Experimental / Bass
Score: 8.5/10
“‘Bring Down The Walls’ is a weird release even for the most experimental, and the walls are most certainly down. Head down, lights off vibe.”
Stream here or purchase on Beatport
Label: Fabric
Genre: Techno / House (Continuous DJ Mix)
Score: 9/10
“The hour-long DJ mix has achieved his stated aim of capturing Room 2′s “perfect but elusive” vibe, delivering a set of pure 4/4 thump.”
Stream here or purchase on Juno
Label: OWSLA
Genre: Trap / Electronic
Score: 9/10
“If it were a human, it would be obese in every way. Full with melody and hooks, but equally stuffed with an eruption of bass and euphoria.”
Stream here or purchase on iTunes
Cosmo’s Midnight – Moshi / Goodnight
Label: Free Download
Genre: Trap / Footwork
Score: 8/10
““Moshi” offers up a dizzying slip-slop blend of chiptune and chopped vocals, while ”Goodnight” featuring the equally talented Sydney band Polographia offers a cooler and slightly longer jam.”
Stream here or download at Soundcloud
Label: Free Download
Genre: Trap / Bass
Score: 8.5/10
“A cinematic concoction of future bass, grime, hip-hop, and popular bass music”
Stream here or download at Soundcloud
If you want to get a feel of the tunes we’re posting here without going through each entire release, we’ve posted our favourite song from each one below to save you the time of figuring out which ones you like. #GoodGuyStoney
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