Still in a Reverie with ill-esha

ill-esha's first album, Circadian Rhythms (above) was a real grower for me and stayed playlisted for a long long time. The latest release this summer on Muti Music, Reverie, has been no different - it just keeps getting better! Her sound is really organic, with some kinda bass soul. She just makes damn good music. Check out the samples below and Get the album!

  Ill-Esha - The Golden Mean by Muti Music 
  Iron Waterfall (clip) by ill-esha 

Full tracklist
Reverie (Muti Music)
1. Sidewalk Chalk    4:56
2. Retrospect    3:57
3. 33 and a Third feat. Joe Mousepad    4:21
4. The Golden Mean    4:53
5. Iron Waterfall    5:18
6. Pretty Banger    4:46
7. Slide Over    5:39

Recent banger with Opiuo



Here's a nice bunch of remixes that always go down well too...

Opiuo: Monkey Crunk from down under

Opiuo is bar far the biggest and funkiest thing to happen to glitch-hop in 2010. With a prolific flurry of releases throughout the year, his funky, chunky, beautifully produced beats, squelchy synths and elastic bass have taken a genre that's recently become bogged down in dubstep-inspired bass swamps and simply put the good times bounce back in it. And it's infectious - almost every music head I know seems to have Opiuo, whether one of the two EPs or the album! The kiwi's got there first of course...

Just listen to this:

  OPIUO Triple J Mix January 2010 128kbps by opiuo

I first came across Opiuo last year via the killa tune King Prawn on An-ten-nae's seminal Acid Crunk Vol.2 compliation (Acid Crunk Vol.3 is just out btw) and it's been in my playlist ever since. I somehow missed the Boganus Proteinius EP, but picked up the awesome Slurp and Giggle album that came out in July a few months ago.

ESSENTIAL FREE DOWNLOAD:

Physical Symptoms EP

 Recently Empanthy Recordings have release a series of mixes of another early classic, Monkey Crunk, from the brilliant Physical Symptoms EP. For my money it's all about this collaboration between bass heavyweights Ben Samples and ill.gates, which properly puts the crunk bass bombs back in the mix alongside some sick amen breaks, while keeping all the original Opiuo funk! Good monkey samples too.
   [EMPD018, PART 2] Opiuo - Monkey Crunk (ill.Gates & Samples Remix) by Empathy Recordings 

Check Opiou's website to LISTEN TO HIS WHOLE BACK CATALOGUE!