Friendships turns ‘I’m Scared You’ll Never Leave’ into a pumping juke track with a lot of motion, moving through the draggy pads and sluggish vocals into a high energy kick drum workout.
Karoshi - Downside/Upshot
Downside/Upshot - Karoshi by karoshisydney This new tune by Sydney’s Karoshi is a heavyweight slice of future bass, in a not-dub dub style that could sit along side Night Slugs artists like Girl Unit while carrying that optimistic darkness that underpins golden-era IDM. It’s also got that european chill, like an Apparat or Pantha Du Prince track, making it an ideal end-of-night track after your late night bass adventures. Karoshi are about to head off to Europe so their farewell show on Saturday 21/1 will be your last chance to see them in a while. Come to Dirty Shirlows and check them out.
You can pile genre names on this all you want, but at it’s core it’s a very clever pop tune. Erothug’s style reminds me of Friendly Fires and Jimmy Edgar, and he sings and produces entirely non-ironic r’n’b styled electronic pop in an Australian way, like Oscar ‘n’ Martin and Collarbones.I think…
We all pretty much know that ‘aquacrunk’ means essentially nothing, but now that I’ve said it you’ve got an idea of what this tune is going to sound like. The debut EP ‘Galactic Neckbreaks’ from Dutch (?) producer Eloq reminds me of producers like Rustie and Slugabed with his bright colours, his…
About me
I host Liquid Electric on FBi Radio. It's a radio station in Sydney, Australia, where I play electronic music every Friday night.I also make my own music, there's more information about that at loopsnake.com
