With the recent boom in bedroom producers and “next generation” beatmakers – it has become somewhat overwhelming to wade through all the over-designed MySpace pages and endless bleeps, blurps & unquantized drums in hopes to find some real worthwhile artists these days.
And without turning this into yet another rant, there’s also been an oversaturation of uninspired remixes or updates of old classics going around too. Luckyily, I think today’s selection goes against both of those stereotypes.
It comes from Simo – an up and coming producer based out of Korea, who can make off-kilter, glitchy, left of center beats but still manages to retain a sense of melody and rhythm to them. He also shows on “MaCheA” that he can breathe new life into one of the most over-done soul standards of all time – which is really no small feat.
Simo is part of a new Korean collective, called !NSiDE, which I definitely think we’ll see making some waves in the near future. So keep an eye out for more from them coming soon and, in the meantime, let me know what you think of these tracks.
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it aight i think flying lotus when i hear it
I’m diggin this.
Shits dope, never heard of em until now…
TNX KENNY!
thanks again
flying lotus sounds different
Those Koreans are definitely on point beatwise. They also got some big support from Lefto from Belgium (Gilles Peterson, Appletree family)
I’ve been a fan for months now!
fresh for sure
dopeness
FRESHESTselect!
damn. korea stand up. ha filthy.
blurps & unquantized drums in hopes to find some real worthwhile artists these days.
horribly true,thanks for pointing this guy out
yes, im digging the slow grimy trudge of his beats. thanks for feeding me, kenny!!!
yeah, hey kenny, have you heard the joint which !NSIDE made with Olivier DaySoul? IT IS BANANAS!!! Bilal and Prince can safely go on vocation together with Sa-Ra (nah, of course I’m joking) but WOW, this song left me speechless! here if someone wants to hear: http://olivierdaysoul.blogspot.com/
that’s family right there, Simo is a killa.
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OK! This dude is fresh! no pun intended…
Might have to keep checking for him!
so..i absolutely LOVE this vibe…its like another branch of AFTA-1 (who is currently my fav producer)…i love this!! Korea betta go head!
very cosmic
melodee.
you guys need to check all his other stuff, very prolific guy.
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