Lofiles is a music and mp3 blog contains a collection of songs I love.
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2-3 years ago I was introduced to Slim Twig’s music by a small PR agency. I loved what I have heard. A combination of ragged beats, Hip-Hop, Rock & Roll, Garage music, distorted guitars, noisy samples, cool freaky twisted vocals, and to sum it up, kick a.. bedroom music just the way we love it. Few weeks ago I have received his new recording venture, A hound at the Hem. Again, freaky and twisted and a tad creepy as a friend was telling me while we were riding her car and listening to the first track off this project titled “Heavy Splendour”. I really dig this, and find it quite brave and truly inspiring and motivating.
Overall Meltdown. That’s how I felt this week. I guess I have overabused my CPU and it got heated up real bad. Its hard to cool it off considering today is one of the hottest days of summer and humidity marks new records. Got to pace myself, set my priorities straight, and shift to lower gear. Music allows me to do this. And today, by the way, Fri 13th, John Kolodij and his HIGH AURA’D help me through this, cooling everything down, till I’ll find myself in the arms of someone…special…extremely special..BUY the record HERE
Jib Kidder Steals guitars. actually, its a harsh word, so lets say he borrows. Besides, its not guitars, just guitar parts. He samples all those country and spaghetti westerns, rootsy American guitar parts, that actually could fit perfectly on a Tarantino movie, and turns this frantic mixture into funk heaven. As he states on his bandcamp page, he has been creating new junk out of existing junk for the past 15 years. He got the Midas touch for funk, manipulating those breakbeats and turning them into his own. Using all those cheesy bits and pieces as an instrument, and mastering this art in such a creative manner, turning his music to an upgraded Wiseguys version. While playing his ‘Steal guitar’ record (released few months ago), I had a feeling this record reflects my life right now. There is something so meaningful for me about this organized clolorful mayhem, and it truly fits the frenzied mood I am in right now, plus, I find it ultra inspiring. Incredible, my friends.
It seems as if this summer is hotter than previous ones, especially on the mixtapes end. After a real extradope Jennifer Baron mix, we are thrilled to introduce you to an up & coming talent of the lofi scene, Lotec, who has been kind enough to share his tremendous flair and passion with us, thus curating and mixing one of the sexiest summer tapes I have heard in a long long time. Lotec is not new to the scene, a long time pianist and music lover. This is not the last time you are going to hear about this very young lady, so watch out…
Our dear and extremely busy Berlin friend Matthias Kanik, the man behind Ghostandthesong, and one of the most intriguing musicians hailing from the Berlin experimental scene had made a May Mixtape for us, and the way he describes it,..” I did not make a normal mix tape.- it s a kind of collage. there are always songs mixed over each other”. A wild 30 minutes of “a very experimental, Kraut-Rock journey.
And watch this funky Ou Inme video, created by multimedia animation studio hypertrashwonderland – the brain child of director and digital filmmaker Marcus Grysczok.
SOB stands for ‘Sound Of A Bitch’and is a new extension of The Lofiles org platform. We have decided, after 4 years of fruitful blogging, to expose the artists we believe in to a wider crowd, and to try to run this web station in a unlimited fashion as possible. We are really open to suggestions, recommendations, if there is an interesting artist you might think of that fits the Lofiles bill, Lofi, Experimental, Musical, Minimalistic, Uncompromising, etc, let us know. In the meantime, visit us HERE
Melody Elder is the debut tape release by Pittsburgh-based The Garment District, the new musical project of multi instrumentalist Jennifer Baron, who was a founding member of Brooklyn‘s The Ladybug Transistor (Merge Records). A dreamy lofi bedroom naïve charm., a great gift for someone you know who wants to drift away..a collage of cheap funky little synths, experimentation, nursery themes with appearances by Jennifer’s cousin Lucy Blehar on lead vocals, Jowe Head on bass. There is something real fresh about this record, just sit back, light up whatever youre smoking and let it carry you away…don’t fight it..Purchase the record HERE
This type of shit is the main reason for me to do what I do with Lofiles. I am sure some of you dont get it..But I find what Jeffry Astin is doing truly inspiring, with his new baby, Digital Natives, and I cant really explain why. I guess a big part of it is the repetitive and hypnotic character of this project, something I use as sort of mantra, it carries me away, and takes the internal constant noise away. This is a killer tape guys, and you should hurry up and grab your Space slave Editions right away: Home-duplicated on Sony TC-WE475 on type ii chrome cassettes, hand-painted j-cards, every sticker hand-cut featuring different art, ed. of 50. All for 14$.
