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Knowing Ry Cuming
Bound to get you excited.. Ry Cuming is an interesting man, he toured as a support act for Maroon 5, was signed to a subsidary label of Sony Music releasing an album and lived in Los Angeles. Originally he came from Angourie which has a population of 170 people, a median age of 47 and is south of Byron Bay. He was making pretty...well awful tracks, like below: But then Ry dropped his major label contract with Sony and the horrendous pop tones when he moved to Berlin in 2012 in which he stated in an interview at the time, "The songs I have released prior have all had some hint of predetermined influence whether from a part of myself or from outside sources. This can be convoluting to the process of communicating who you are as an artist honestly, and also misleading for the people receiving that work." And this is what happened: He essentially became the ultimate hipster. Okay not really but he started the first of three projects which would mark him out as an act to watch. When he ar
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Lower Spectrum - Traces EP
A beautiful collection of downtempo electronica.. It's almost hard to believe there is music like this coming out of my hometown. At a time when everyone's doing the trap/half-time/bouncey/wavey beats thing (and quite often doing it well, mind), Traces, the new EP from Fremantle-via-Melbourne producer Lower Spectrum is a breath of fresh air. We covered the first single from it, Khlever, A FEW WEEKS AGO, and now the full release is available via iTunes/Bandcamp, with options for a purchase on clear vinyl for the purists out there. And to be honest this is something I'd like to have in physical form - it's the kind of music best put on and left on, a six-track journey for your ears and mind. I mentioned it before (basically because it's the only comparison I can draw upon), but it has some very Nicolas Jaar-esque vibes about it that I am completely in love with. Opener Levity grows and grows into a brilliant drum breakdown, Hex is all dark and dirty '80s sci-fi cinema soundscapes, and th