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| Praguedren - Painting Over Scenery - Out Now! |
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Praguedren, Painting Over Scenery - Hypnagogue review: There's something about the slow,
sexy dub on Praguedren's new disc that makes me want to put on my 70s-style late-night-DJ voice, lean into a mic and purr,
"Awwww, yeah...this one goes out to anyone who's gonna get down with gettin' down tonight. Solid." This
Czech duo lay down some serious funk-laced sounds, thick with sweet and chewy bass lines and dripping with smooth grooves.
I like this disc as a backdrop for winding down in the evening. It's trippy without going overboard, and stands up to
a close listen, but when it's just allowed to sort of lope around the room, quietly filling the space, its downtempo ease
becomes absolutely infectious.You're paying it no real mind and then you realize your head's bobbing to the beat of
a track like "House Built of Dub" (one of my favorites) or your body's been taken over by the cool flow of the
disc's highlight track, "Stax of Bass." (You want a bass line you could eat with a fork? This is the track for
you, served with a side order of psychedelic guitar.) I know this isn't always what musicians want to hear about their
work, but the thing about Painting Over Scenery is that it's just plain nice. Easy on the ears, loungey without being
pretentious, smoothly played and expertly built, all but demanding repeat play. If you're looking for rhythmic tracks
with an authentic funk vibe and unmistakable dub cred, slide on over to Dank Disk and check this one out. You'll be gettin'
down with gettin' down in no time. Awww, yeah. Available from Dank Disk.
click here to watch new praguedren video for track wow and flutter (phasing dub mix)
new dank disk releases out in 2010. Praguedren -
painting over scenery and Canartic - modulotion. Listen to tracks from both releases on the sounds page link.
click here to listen to the newest dank disk signing - praguedren.
click here to watch new video by praguedren.
click here to watch new dank disk vids.
 | CANARTIC: bouncing radar beams off the moon
Psychedelic downbeat meets effects
madness in a post rock electronic lunar landscape.
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Kristofer Upjohn from raves.com reviews the new canartic release- bouncing radar beams
off the moon.
Downtempo, midtempo, electronic beats, organic guitar flavors (though generated live or synthed, I don't
know), spacey flavors, a dab of trip, dub infusion ... yeah, there's a lot afoot here. But it's not a clumsy casserole cooked
up in some half-assed wannabe's kitchen. Canartic finds a delightful cohesion in which to blend together a variety of flavors.
There's a little bit of attitude fused with a lot of laid-backness, but by no means should any amount of chilledness be mistaken
for lackadaisical fuck-offery. Nope. Canartic will have you succumbing to the grooves before you even know it. It's a stylish
and versatile work of audio artfulness that is a little self-aware but deservedly so. Even if this is too low-key for your
tastes, I bet you find yourself saying to yourself, "Hey, this is mighty good." If not, then fine, I was wrong. But don't
you at least want to give yourself the chance to PROVE me wrong? Go ahead. Try. I dare you. Four stars
 | CANARTIC: headphone test
down tempo dub psychedelic sound clash
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armchair raver from raves.com reviews headphone test
Canartic is a stunning and highly refreshing journey into
chilled ambience and cool/warm textures. It's not your typical Ameithystium/Delerium/Enigma grooves (not that there's anything
wrong with those). Nor is it slowed down disco downtempo like Chicken Lips. Neither is it straight ambient tones. Then again,
it's not dub, either? So what is it? Who cares what you call it (except that this challenges the poor reviewer)? It's delicious
and capturing (both the ears and soul). It's soundtracky in a positive way (in other words, I'm not saying it's background
music), having the flavor of something you might hear in a movie set in dark clubs and soulful nighttimes, but it's got personality
and doesn't sink into oblivion, suitable only for casual consumption. Lots of tastes and textures flow through here. At the
core is a sexy but subtle jazz sensibility informing the music. The beats are downtempo and very content with themselves;
they create, so quietly, such a strong groove. I envision lovemaking and a city skline.Steamy streets. Ambience oozes from
the various elements that make themselves known from time to time: ultra-chilled guitars, quiet but knowing beats, gentle
but assured electronic tones, ambient ice floes and that souljazz spirit deep within. Airy but not vapid, thickly atmospheric
but not weighed down, Canartic's "Headphone Test" is among the best chillout you're sure to hear in a long while. Five stars.
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