Palms Out Sounds

APOTEK – Just you and I First up on another night full of tidy UKG-adjacent stuff is this lovely warm bit from Brussels-based Italian producer Elisa Di Riccio, aka APOTEK. It’s been a demanding few months for me — mostly, work has been a bear, but also because raising two young children is such a constant challenge. In a way, the common thread is how hard management is. The role of the middle manager probably gets even less societal respect than the role of parent, but both really deserve a few…

DMG – Live the Dream Skittering glitchy rave from Daniel McGurty, aka DMG, now based in Edinburgh but a native of Blackburn. McGurty is painting with a delicate brush here, sketching around an absence of overt dancefloor kick/bass spine, but these two tracks from his upcoming album Live the Dream nonetheless evoke plenty of nostalgia for UK hardcore and rave. Blackburn was the epicenter of illegal raving in the UK in the late 80s and early 90s. Kids making great use of all the abandoned mills…

Proc Fiscal – “Disease Again” Mura Masa – “Handsup” Deniz Cuylan – “No Such Thing” ft. Felbm The post Visual Velcro 57 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Lowdoses – La Calavera Up first tonight, a shadowy bit of contemplative drum n bass from El Paso, TX-based Lowdoses (real name Samuel Molina). Calavera translates to skull, including in reference to the sorts of celebratory skulls decorated for Día de Muertos to honor ancestors. Where those skulls are usually brightly colored and joyous, I’d guess the skull reference here is a more somber one. The whole EP of which this is a part, Smelter Town, is sinister minimalist stuff — meant to reflect…

Ghost Cartridge / Mantrakid – looking into people’s windows First up tonight, on a night when I’m seeking a semblance of harmony amidst the roar of preparation for a long vacation with two toddlers, are three songs from Mantrakid (Nate Schmold) of Canadian duo Ghost Cartridge. These are from an upcoming album, looking into people’s windows, composed of several snapshots of an evening stroll around a residential neighborhood, each piece a voyeuristic still of a private human moment. All three of…

I love what Jason Calhoun has to say about this first song from his upcoming album revelations of divine love: I enjoy working with abstracted, gestural melody that isn’t necessarily connected to a traditional beat. The tapping ‘bass drum’ rhythm in ‘tolstoy tatsoi’ offers a subverted sense of rhythm which feels disjointed yet in place with the rest of the track — similar to tapping your foot to a song in your head while the radio plays something else. As my daughter has gotten old enough to…

The nature of fatherhood is that you’re doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified when you do it. – John Green Remix Sunday 176 Zipped Up. (120mb zip) pw: palmsout TRMA – “Little Pieces” (Remix) Kelela – “Rewind” (Tony Quattro Bootleg) Youngstar – “Pulse X” (DJ ADHD Refix) Mez – “Woiya” (Kami-O Remix) KARAN! & Mc Mary Maii – “VAGABUNDO” (Izumo Remix) ASAP. Rocky – “Praise the Lord” (Frythm Reprise) MAV – “Drift” (BOP Remix Instrumental) Mona Matsuoka x Tim…

Nikki Nair – “Default Mode” Machinedrum – “WHEN UR GONE” Will Hofbauer & Sangre Voss – “UKA” The post New Hots Hots 26 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

AceMo – “Follow the Light” (Nick Leon 2023 Edit) Mia Koden – “Bout Dis” Sega Bodega – “SL-X” The post New Hots Hots 25 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

DOS – Future Paradise Crystalline modern electro from Austrian producer DOS (real name Noah Gorbach). The drums are ace here, but it’s hard to focus on anything but that enormous mid-90s ROMpler piano riff. This is what it would have sounded like had Robert Miles decided to produce electro instead of radio trance, and gosh, I really wish he had. As someone who finds classic machine funk rhythms deeply irresistable and infectious, I often wish more producers of the genre would stray a bit from…

BGDN – do what the fk you like All dark 2-step for you tonight. First up, from BGDN (Bogdan Bobrov), a producer from Los Angeles. True to its title, this track has a rakish, devil-may-care quality that’s immediately disarming. It’s hard to say whether the track’s impeccable balance is a happy accident achieved in flow state or the result of meticulous care, but whatever bred this, I can’t get enough of that big perc hit that comes somewhere just off the 2 in each bar. It sounds sort of like…

Psychic Driving – This Devil Ship First up tonight, rage bathed in tranquility — or maybe more accurately, a representation of the sort-of relieved quality that the frustration of resignation can sometimes take on. This piece by Scottish producer Psychic Driving (real name Ross Drummond) centers around the final transmissions from Vladimir Komarov, the Soviet cosmonaut who boarded Soyuz 1 despite knowing it was critically compromised, furious at the people who sent him to his death (his was the…

Datassette – “Memory Traffic” Datassette – “Metal Desk Tapping Processed” Nikki Nair & foodman – “Sorry I Lost My Glasses In The Public Bathhouse” gyrofield – “Goat With The Red Tooth” The post New Hots Hots 24 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Anna Lysis & F. Sonore – Smashed Sweetness Isn’t it nice that we’ve gotten away from that 90s and 2000s thing where anyone singing in English would put on an American accent? Part of what makes the vocals so nice in this track by French artists Anna Lysis & F. Sonore is how much Lysis’s French accent comes through in her delivery — and not in the ironic or too-cool-for-school way often heard in mid-naughties French electro. Lysis’s lyrics and delivery are earnest — naive almost — sailing,…

Wiki – “Park” Big Dope P & Littlez – “Trapanese” Ital Tek – “The Ice Is Thin” The post Visual Velcro 56 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Jake Back – keep it simple/rytm start New music from Jake Back, the LA-based artist I covered a few months ago. I hesitate to call these two new ones from Back ‘outsider house’ — partly because the term was always reductive, but also because these are really more in the world of ‘lofi house’ with their shared focus on bleached chords, romantic vocals bits, and comparatively clean drums. But I have a hard time using that term either; don’t get me wrong, I do love when sound gets distressed and…

MOLØ & Kamohelo – “Dear” Oyubi – “Wop Wop” Jeigo – “SPF 50” The post New Hots Hots 23 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Hominid – Wind Chime First up tonight, this is from Play Fighting, the new EP by Hominid (Benny Jennings), an artist based in Te Whanganui a Tara, NZ. “Wind Chime” marries brick and glass — the fuzz of a blown speaker cabinet reverberating against an untreated room sits beneath glittering crystal tones. These give way to a brief moment of clarinet-driven serenity, and then a swift return of windchimes against the clang of industry. The rest of the EP is similarly concerned with fusing disparate…

What harm is there in whispering to yourself as you kiss your child, ‘tomorrow, you will die’? – Epictetus Remix Sunday 175 Zipped Up. (84mb zip) pw: palmsout El Sawareekh – “Laa” (Habibeats Remix) Ice Spice & Tokischa – “Thootie” (ADR & Junk Food Edit) Pix – “Mega Put4 Mexicana” (DJ WENDELLSIILVA Remix) Vhoor & D.A.N.V – “Assovio” (Mabrada Edit) Urban Shakedown – “Some Justice ’95” (Arsonist Super Dub) Oppidan & Cutty Ranks – “Armed & Dangerous” (Elliot Keith Bootleg) Lawrence Lui – “Hooked On…

DJ Plead – “Stucco” Daniel Avery – “Neon Pulse” (Midnight Version) Clark – “Who Booed the Geese” Clark – “Who Booed the Goose” The post New Hots Hots 22 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

asteraceae – apparitions Tonight’s mailbox roundup is focused entirely on succinct cuts of online jungle–the type of thing I keep finding my way back to, most of which is less homage to the East London forebears than it is an embodiment of internetcore and perpetual ode to WipEout 2097. First up is two minutes of celestial pads and breakbeats that are as much phaser as they are drum. This is honestly a bit more refined than most of the neo-jungle/neo-breakcore I encounter, and genuinely…

Fire-Toolz – “Dear Robin Bears & Love Cloud ’24” Shelf Nunny – “Water Idea” Nathan Fake – “Slow Yamaha” The post Visual Velcro 55 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Off the Meds – “Talmode” Nathan Fake – “Outhouse 2023” Duckett – “Looking at Mum Objectively” The post Sextuple Test Pattern first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Eartheater – “Paradise Rains” Hadone — “Bite The Hand That Feeds You” Max Cooper – “A Sense Of Getting Closer” The post Visual Velcro 54 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

Big Dope P – FDBU Monster 160 g-tech tune from longtime Palms Out favorite Big Dope P, the prolific French producer based in London. This man is the definition of grind–he seems to produce and release nonstop and runs one of the most stylistically consistent labels of the past two decades (next year is the 20-year anniversary of this classic). I’ve never had the pleasure of seeing him DJ, but I imagine he brings a lot of fun to the floor. This is from his upcoming six-track EP, Life Hits Hard…

DJ Daria – “Night Skyline” (UGSF Mix) DJ Daria – “Yrbody” Pee. J Anderson – “Rebu” lil_art_hoe – “standard living” (dub mix) The post New Hots Hots 21 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.

9ms – M€mo Wading slightly into the world of experimental dub and Krautrock, first up tonight is this strange and wonderful song by Munich-based drummer-duo 9ms (Simon Popp & Florian König). The second single from their just-released third album Lunch–most of which is almost exclusively percussive–this song is an outlier, and draws its melodies from the drums themselves with really clever use of a drum resonator. The melodic result is elusive, as if the melody were a few milliseconds (9?) ahead…

In preparing to write this review of Tommy Simpson’s newest album as Macro/micro, A.fter I.ntelligence, I asked Claude’s Opus 4.7 to “listen” to a few songs, and tell me how the music made it “feel” about human society’s reordering around AI, and what responsibility it might take for that, given the range of opinions human beings hold of it. It first offered a technical analysis of the first song it was fed (“Artificial Super Intelligence (Digital Dark Arts)”), identifying the song’s spectral…

Wonderfully carved metallic left-field techno three-tracker from London’s Leaches (real name Jack Reardon). This EP is an example of where a hardware rig can really take techno into more captivating territory. It’s a cliché to say that getting out-of-the-box makes music more “organic”–plenty of artists are capable of gorgeous, vibrant texture in a DAW–but there’s something to be said for the way machines (or instruments) invite both expression and experimentation. Maybe it’s the limitations…

Nuage & BAILE – “Tracing” (Extended) Nuage & BAILE – “Placid” Maelstrom & Fasme – “Res 06” Logic 1000 – “under the sun, beneath the rainfall” The post New Hots Hots 20 first appeared on Palms Out Sounds.