I’ve Been Gone For a Minute, Now I’m Back

It has been a long time since I’ve uploaded any new material for you all to digest, and I apologise for that. I can make up for it with the next batch of articles that I have ready to upload for you. From my Bestival experience this year, that festival that used to be on the sunny Isle of Wight now at muggy Lulworth Castle in Dorset. To all the latest music that has come out since my last article, and my word is there do I have some serious tracks to share with you guys.

For this little filler in article, I guess what I’ll do is just talk a little bit about some artists and tracks that have really caught my eye.

The Japanese House

This solo project should be apart of any playlist of yours that you just want to chill to. Or any other playlist for that matter. It is that good. A mix of lush dream pop and brooding electronica. You need to have her on your playlists cause if you don’t you are truly missing out. Their sound is so relaxing and rich.

I have been meaning to write an article solely on them but haven’t gotten round to doing it. You should give them a listen too; you will be thanking me after you do.

Notable Tracks:

Cool Blue

Face Like Thunder

Saw You in a Dream

Sam Gellaitry

This lad. Wow. Some of you may not like his sound, but once you’ve watched him live you can’t not love him. What a talent. His mixing, and dj’ing ability is phenomenal. He was one of the acts that I really wanted to see when going to Bestival. His music is, striking and dynamic synthetic laze probing music.

If you keep that imagine in your head, you and turn on his tracks you can feel yourself in a rave, or underground boiler room session grooving to this. Again, some of you may not like this, but he is defiantly one to look out for this year.

Notable Tracks:

HYENA

LONG DISTANCE

DREAMSCAPES

ALMA

Another Bestival Performer. ALMA performing with her twin sister is the new wave of Scandinavian pop music breaking into the mainstream. Her trademark sound and green hair, make her different from the other musician within the same category. She has had some really successful tracks, and we are all awaiting her album. She really has a big following in the UK at that was really evident with the amount of people that went to go and see her at her shows of the weekend at Bestival.

Her tracks have a mixture of pop-electro, with piercing vocals makes some truly head banging stuff. Her latest track Phases with French Montana isn’t as good as her own stuff but it is a good chart track.

Notable Tracks:

Chasing Highs

Dye My Hair

Karma

Phases

Jordan Raki

Another one to watch out for, with a recently released album Wallflower which like the man himself is flawless. With it’s hypnotic poetic vocals, fluid focused electronic fused jazz. It is a sound that isn’t all that uncommon now. With Tom Misch, the most notable of all who is really bringing this groove back. Fondly enough the two have come together a few times to make some endlessly-playable music.

The Australian musician is defiantly taking our capital by storm. This is only the beginning of his rise.

Notable Tracks:

Sorceres

Midnight Mischief – Tom Misch Remix

Blame It on the Youth

XXXTENTACION

The gangsta Ed Sheeran. This album was the complete opposite of what I expected from the youngster. It really touched me, and you could feel the rawness from each individual track and within the production itself.

For his debut album he didn’t disappoint, following the footsteps of Lil Uzi Vert, BROCKHAMPTON, 21 Savage, and many others in trying to change the rap game and making it their own, he has really stood out for me with this album.

Notable Tracks:

Jocelyn Flores

Fuck Love (feat. Trippie Redd)

Everybody Dies In Their Nightmares

Jamila Woods

Another Chicago based musician that is making heads turn. Her album HEAVN came out back in August and it still stuck in my head. The album featured some great names such as, Noname, Chance The Rapper, Kweku Collins, Donnie Trumpet, and Saba. That is some feature list for your first album.

This album was kind of like and all Chicago musician collaboration. The album highlights the social and political issues which are important to Jamila. Every track here is resilient and steadfast without being angry and militant; each track has a different message but as a collective it creates the picture in your head, of what she and many others go through and think in modern America. Her vocals are rich and you can feel the emotion behind they lyrics. The album is a combination of electronics, jazz, and soulful melodies that make up the layered sound of her mesmerising album. The album is defiantly one that you should listen too, it is a classic.

Notable Tracks:

HEVAN

Blk Girl Soldier

LSD (feat. Chance The Rapper)

Daniel Caesar

This kid is the one. He is the full package. His lyrics for me are what makes him so intriguing and endless playable. The Toronto singer, really caught the mainstream attention with his album Freudian.

The warmth and emotionally rich track is structured with bluesy guitar melodies, stripped piano’s and soulful heart melting vocals. The influence of gospel music and his church upbringing is soaked in the cracks and crevices of Freudian. The soft pianos and church organs make up the bed that most of his records lay in. Unlike many of today's most popular R&B acts who have leaned on the golden era of ‘90s R&B (dvsn, Bruno Mars) or found influence in the modernize crossover of singing in rap’s trap era (Bryson Tiller), Freudian submerges itself in a lovely merger of throwback R&B and ‘90s Gospel music.

Notable Tracks:

Take Me Away (feat. Syd)

Japanese Denim

We Find Love

Get You (feat. Kali Uchis)

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Like I said there is more to come, be on the lookout and keep sharing what you guys read. Really appreciate those that visit the site. Big up you mandem!

Yes, new material coming soon. One last mention, do check out my Spotify and Mixcloud accounts for new uploaded material and new playlists coming soon – but do check what is up there already. I have a new slot on my Wired shows now, Friday 5pm – 6pm so check me out on there as well.

Links:

https://www.mixcloud.com/tafadzwa-muchenje/

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