Cymatic Futures

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Scallywag - Cymatic Futures

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Tracklist:

1. Deadboy - Heartbreaker
2. Pariah - Railroad
3. iTAL tEK - Moon Bow
4. Pariah - The Slump
5. Ramadanman - Glut
6. Flying Lotus - Roberta Flack (Martyn's Heart Beat Mix)
7. Indigo - Fading
8. 16BIt - Skyline
9. James Blake - Foot Notes
10. Kyle Hall - You Know What I Feel
11. Joy Orbison - So Derobe
12. Untold - Gonna Work Out Fine
13. Untold - Anaconda
14. Ultravid - Clan Of Wow (Kingdom Remix)
15. Gang Gang Dance - Bebey (DJ /rupture and Matt Shadetek Remix)
16. Zomby - Digital Fauna
17. DFRNT - Headspace (Scuba Remix)
18. Jack Sparrow - The Chase
19. Subeena - Circular
20. Monolake - Atlas
21. Mordant Music - The Tower (ExhuMMed)
22. CEX - Freq
23. Starkey - Black Monolith
24. Holden - The Wheel
25. The Black Dog - ...Short Wave Lies
26. The Black Dog - Silipher
27. Eskmo - Process
28. Stagga - Lopside (Doshy Remix)
29. Lorn - Suicide Note
30. Aardvark - Untitled (Bloom 4)
31. Darkstar - Video Tape
32. Mount Kimbie - Taps
33. Sigha - Remembrance
34. Breakage (feat. Burial) - Vial
35. The Big Pink - Velvet (Mount Kimbie Remix)
36. Moderat - Rusty Nails (Shackleton rx)
37. Distance - Fallen (Vex'd Remix)
38. Roof Light - In Your Hands
39. Sigha - Light Swells (In A Distant Place)



Hey again. Probably pretty evident that I abandoned this blog for greener pastures (read: more buzz-worthy mediums..namely tumblr and twitter), but figured I should post this up here should there be any stragglers.

So yeah, all kinds of advanced wave patterning inside this one. It's based around all these new ideas that have been rippling out of the hardcore continuum over the last year or so, stuff that I can't help but follow closely, seeing how the broader sound manages to mutate just about every other month or so. Right now I feel like it's pretty tough to burn out on something that moves this quick, especially when the inertia pulls in all these talented people who then inform the larger about a whole other sub-set of influences. On top of that, because you have all these media outlets and communities providing instant critical commentary - most of which subsist on their ability to champion innovation - that process tends to generate this self-preserving dynamic to counter rapidly dwindling attention spans. Even though it's tougher to find the appropriate venues to play this stuff out (at least in the US), I feel like following it all is, at the very least, an amazing way to aggregate across multiple genres. Plus you eventually get this condensed sense of how it's all evolving in real-time, which just adds another layer to the addiction for me.

But yeah, in general, it's centered around the moodier strains of what's been spidering out of dubstep's wake, along with a couple other genres I've pulled in for effect. Part of the reason I made this is just to showcase as much of it as possible for those who are unfamiliar, but the bigger focus in this for me was to really draw out the emotional weight inherent in a lot of these tracks...as far as that goes, all I will say is that I put a lot of thought into sequencing and mixing this...

Anyhow, it clocks in at around 1:40, super lengthy for a mix these days, I know, but I was trying to go wide-screen with this one. If you liked The Distant Haunts, it has a pretty similar arc. Things really start to come together around the 40 minute mark, so let it run awhile if you want to see the whole vibe I'm getting at start to...make sense?

....annnd might as well mention that you can get most of my mixes easily by subscribing to my podcast. All different genres, plus I just realized there's a mix in there from a few months ago that I never posted here.

Oh...and lastly... if could you do me one small favor, please:

listen to this at night.

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