Showing posts with label Dusted Wax Kingdom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dusted Wax Kingdom. Show all posts

Nov 25, 2015

Viktor Van River - OCD

Back from a little break and just in time for some Fall chill from our new favorite netlabel, Dusted
Wax Kingdom.

The name of the release is Damaged and the artist is Viktor Van River hailing from Kazakistan. 

We hear things are on the move and we want to move to the groove.

Viktor Van River - OCD

May 2, 2015

Eric Jackson - It's Time

Another day, another post.  I've always been a fan of the album as a composition, and Rainy Days by Erik Jackson is just that.
American producer and sound maestro Erik Jackson; shares his incredible album "Rainy Days" with the Dusted Wax Kingdom's audience. The release is a unique fusion of light melancholic drum & bass, romantic acid jazz and relaxing downtempo.
This release is also more evidence that the Bulgarian netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom is a Creative Commons label with few rivals in terms of breadth and quality.

"It's Time" is the second track, which I start with, only because the first track is a 28 second intro.  It begins with a lone trumpet and some digital snapping... when the bass and drums come in, everything is fleshed out and you'll be sucked in. If you're reading this, you might as well listen to the whole album!

From Erik:
"Rainy Days" was a project I have been working on for over a year. After my last album "The Road Less Traveled", I wanted to push further into jazz, and dig even deeper into my soul. The album weaves in and out of acoustic drum & bass or (jazz & bass), to Traditional jazz songs. I am very happy with the outcome. The albums theme is; a cold and rainy night, an old turntable and the progression of the evening at home, alone or with someone special. That's what was in my mind when It was created. I will let your imagination create the rest. I guarantee this is something you have never heard before.
Find Erik here, lots more to listen to, and hey, buy some albums.

Eric Jackson - It's Time

Apr 24, 2015

Boogie Belgique - Stairway To The USSR

After our belated discovery of the aural excellence of Boogie Belgique earlier this year we have been digesting their back catalog.  This is some really great stuff.

Today's track comes from a July 2012 Dusted Wax Kingdom release called Blueberry Hill.  Amazing from first note to the last.

Boogie Belgique is based in Ghent.  Here is a little more on the release from the liner notes:
From top to bottom "Blueberry Hill" is filled up with electro swing moods, funky hip-hop rhythms and tasty jazzy samples. 
Dive in and lose yourself...

Boogie Belgique - Stairway To The USSR

Apr 22, 2015

Sp. Ace - Caravan (feat. Faerytale)

When in doubt go with the Dusted Wax Kingdom catalog. Wow. There is some great stuff therein.

Remarkably, I have absolutely nothing on the artist Sp. Ace except they are from Latvia.  It's a great release called Caravan of Lightbulbs.  It is about a year old, released on April 14, 2014.

Enjoy.

Sp. Ace - Caravan (feat. Faerytale)

Apr 8, 2015

Mounika - Soul Blue Tango

Thanks go out to our friends at Starfrosch for pulling our heads around to this wonderful release from Dusted Wax Kingdom.  

The release is called Born To Be Beats by Mounika.  Mounika is from Poitiers, France.

The release page at archive.org doesn't have much information, but Kus at Starfrosch fills in the blanks for us:
Largely inspired by calm music, he picks his samples in some jazz, funk and abstract songs. He spends most of the time looking for that famous perfect sample, digging in internet and vinyl.
It's worth your while to dig into this release, no doubt about it.

Mounika - Soul Blue Tango

Apr 2, 2015

Vintage Beats - Roll It Up

A quick post this morning from a dark and dreamy Seattle cityscape.  The release is called Nuclear Hip Hop from Dusted Wax Kingdom artists, Vintage Beats.  Now that, my friends, is a sentence. This tasty collection was released on Monday.

Dark and dreamy describes this release very well, indeed.

There are no notes associated with the release so I don't have much to go on, except the music.  Sometimes, it's the music that should carry the day. This is one of those days. 

Dusted Wax Kingdom is a prolific netlabel out of Varna, Bulgaria and in this phoenix-like resurgence of Black Sweater, White Cat they have quickly become a favorite...
blunted downtempo beats, abstract hip-hop and all kind of intelligent chilled grooves spiced with jazzy and soulful tasty ingredients.
Enjoy the day

Vintage Beats - Roll It Up

Mar 28, 2015

Funkonami - Love You

A smooth, soothing and out there love song for you this morning. This track dropped on an all rights reserved Bandcamp compilation release, Pure Dopeness Volume 15 from Sinoptic International. The compilation was released in February.

Funkonami did us the favor of posting a some rights reserved CC single...yay Commons.

Earlier this year we featured a Funkonami track released by Dusted Wax Kingdom so we had an idea that we would like this one before we clicked.  Yep. It's good.

Funkonami is a Producer, DJ and turntablist from Greece.  He has releases on Dusted Wax KingdomSinoptic MusicNuages Records and Synesthesia Records.

Funkonami - Love You

Mar 27, 2015

Araxis - Essence (feat. Arcadian)

The hits don't stop at Bulgaria-based netlabel, Dusted Wax Kingdom

Today's track is found on a March 9 release called Chronos.  As Subsystem 7 mentioned earlier this month, these folks are impressive.

This is release number 302 for Dusted Wax Kingdom.  That's right, 302 releases...that's what you call dedicated and prolific. Well, actually there have been 2 more releases since March 9 so make that 304...

Araxis is a project of -Synth who is a Bournemouth-based artist. It is well-executed, dreamy trip-hop.

Araxis - Essence (feat. Arcadian)

Mar 14, 2015

Elenika - Milk

Today we bring you a track from the Russian DJ/artist Elenika, from the release Devil Girl (EP) on the netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom.  We here at Black Sweater, White Cat continue to be astounded by the DWK catalogue.

Milk is a good representation of the whole Devil Girl album; sultry female vocals over a drivingly cool bassline mixed with a dash of funk, electronics, horns, and some crackling wax.

This album has not had enough play, that's for sure. Lets change this, download it today and let it roam free in your library... it just might pop up and haunt you one day.

Elenika - Milk





Mar 13, 2015

ProleteR - U Can Get It

Something fun for Friday, we bring you U Can Get It, a track from ProleteR's release Curses From Past Times (LP) on the Dusted Wax Kingdom netlabel from March of 2012. Fresh and groovy, we found it hard not to tap our feet along with almost every track!

French musician, producer, and beatmaker ProleteR is very active, with music all over the web; FaceBook, SoundCloud, YouTube, Bandcamp... You can also catch him playing out in various locations in Europe. Check his FaceBook page.

Beats, piano, horns, gorgeous vocals, old samples woven together with joy...

ProleteR - U Can Get It

Feb 25, 2015

dustmotes - Glass Harp

Putting some new British trip-hop in the feed this morning.  A release called What We Left Behind by dustmotes dropped on the Dusted Wax Kingdom netlabel this week.  It is a wonderful collection of melodic and innovative trip-hop.

The moving force behind dustmotes is London-based Paul Croker.  One of the calling cards of the dustmotes releases is the blending of the "crunch" of the turntable and smooth digital samples.  

A snip from a description for a previous release explores this aspect:
His love affair with the vinyl format started at the age of 4, when he was given his first 7" single, and would grow throughout the next few decades throughout the Hip Hop, Trip Hop and Big Beat movements.  During the early years, he ruined a few parentally-owned record players teaching himself to scratch and mix records.
Smooth and crunchy, have a listen.

dustmotes - Glass Harp

Jan 29, 2015

Sgt. Penarlaster - Goodbye Gino

Bulgarian netlabel, Dusted Wax Kingdom has just released the second in a two-part Extended Play collection by Russian artist Sgt. Penarlaster.  The music captures that sort of retro downtempo triphop feel that is Dusted Wax Kingdom's calling card.

The track we are posting today does a really nice job blending and using found audio as a central element.  We think you're going to like it.  

Sergeant Penarlaster is Serge Khurs, a musician from Moscow.  He reflects on his artistic approach on his Soundcloud page:
My music is a mix of retrospective sounds, beats and melodies that are born on the soil of my own feelings.
Part one of this series was released in January 2014.  Our bet is that you will want to experience both of them.

Sgt. Penarlaster - Goodbye Gino

Jan 9, 2015

Boogie Belgique - Monstro

From a March 2014 release called Nightwalker Vol. 2 comes this marvelous number.  Netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom calls the style "swing-hop".  I love the merging of styles and decades that is happening here.  What fun exploring the entire release.  And, there is a Vol. 1 waiting.  Yay!

The artists are based in Ghent, Belgium and use the terms "Abstract Hiphop" & "Electroswing" to describe the sound.

Boogie Belgique - Monstro

Jan 3, 2015

Groove Cereal - Sound Breakfast (feat. Jenova 7 & Andrew Linn)

This morning we delve into the very deep catalog of Dusted Wax Kingdom.  I'm very impressed with this Bulgarian netlabel and what they have been able to accomplish over the last 8 years.  Over two hundred releases and much netaudio joy.


Groove Cereal has a smooth combo of found audio with a trip hop vibe.  Groove Cereal is Francesco Cimato from Buffalo.  From his Facebook page:

He is a member of Shoeboxx Recordings (www.facebook.com/shoeboxxrecordings) and Dusted Wax Kingdom (dustedwax.org) 
All releases can be found at the above pages or atgroovecereal.bandcamp.com
Groove Cereal - Sound Breakfast (feat. Jenova 7 & Andrew Linn)

Jan 2, 2015

Funkonami - Globetrottting

What a great way to start 2015.  Quentin Tarantino may want to pay attention...this release could easily be part of his next project.  

We are posting the title track from this 4 tune release that Dusted Wax Kingdom dropped yesterday.  All four are great.  I went back and forth between Globetrotting and Vietnamese Roses for this post.  You'll want to hear them all.

Don't have a lot of information on Funkonami, but here it is:

Producer, DJ & Turntablist from Greece.Member of Beat4Battle Worldwide, Asthma Funk USA, Pipolass Belgium & Siam Syndicate Thailand.

Spin it up.

Funkonami - Globetrottting



Dec 18, 2014

Aydio - Deltitnu

Deltitnu is the title track from a 2009 release on the Dusted Wax Kingdom netlabel.  I'm loving the vibe...funky, sultry and smooth.  Hat tip to the bloggers at http://agier.blogspot.com/ for curating this release last week.  It's a find.  From the archives.org description:


The tracks graduate lightly one into one another, painting beautiful dreamy soundscapes with a wonderful ornate melange of groovy basslines, dub soulful guitars, phat beats and expanded ambience. If you feel the Groove Armada and Morcheeba's chilled trippy vibes, you'll definitely fall in love with this release!

Very nice.  Recommended

Aydio - Deltitnu