Two modern chaotic beatmakers on Bandcamp

April 21, 2017 8:19 PM

For your listening pleasure, here are two rather different producers of beat-driven music on Bandcamp: Mexico City-based, jungle/electronic master-mangler, priestess of chaotic drum & bass, formerly known as Smurphy [Soundcloud, NSFW header image], now Upgrayedd Smurphy. If that's too chaotic in a random sort of way, Canterbury-based sound-twister (Facebook video) an energetic beat manipulator making glitch-hop with appreciation of old IDM masters a la Four Tet or Aphex Twin.
posted by filthy light thief (7 comments total)

Oh boy do I like this Upgrayedd Smurphy! (Also lol Idiocracy)
posted by STFUDonnie at 11:52 PM on April 21, 2017 [1 favorite]

And I'm digging Koloto's work. I'm getting a little bit of a Pogo vibe in addition to Four Tet.

Come to think of it, I'd like to see a Moloko-Pogo-Koloto collaboration, if only for the name ... maybe throw in some Toto for good measure. Pogomolokolototo, if you will.
posted by kcds at 8:59 AM on April 22, 2017

I'm not sure that Aphex and Four Tet overlap, but Koloto reminds me of nothing so much as Nobukazu Takemura.
posted by rhizome at 11:13 AM on April 22, 2017 [2 favorites]

Why do I have a sneaking hunch that Koloto has a marimba down in that basement? ;-) Anyway, Smurphy ... whoa.
posted by Twang at 5:43 PM on April 22, 2017

uh that smurphy header needs a bit more than a nsfw tag
posted by i deserved this at 11:46 AM on April 23, 2017

Isn't it fake?
posted by rhizome at 3:06 PM on April 23, 2017

Yup, I'm seconding fake gore/violent imagery. Seems like the kind of thing that Soundcloud wouldn't permit if it were real.
posted by filthy light thief at 7:52 PM on April 23, 2017