J.Francis

Brisbane's J.Francis makes sultry dreampop warm enough to melt the coldest of hearts. The tracks below are taken from the debut album Almost, which is available for download at a name-your-price basis over on bandcamp right now. Take a listen below:

Terracotta Blue

The longer I spend trawling through the instrumental EPs and mixtapes I receive, the more I realise that so SO many producers sound the same. But, every now and again you find a sweet little surprise like Terracotta Blue, who sounds just that little bit more special. The below tracks are taken from the ravencrest EP which was released just yesterday (30/10), it's also available on a name your price basis over on Bandcamp, enjoy:

ghostandthesong

It seems like Matthias Kanik's project ghostandthesong already did the whole blogging circuit thing a couple of months back but somehow I completely missed it. So I was pretty pleased to find a message about it in my inbox today cause otherwise I'd have been out of the loop on some pretty great music. His latest EP is called Escapes and is out via the brilliant Bad Panda Records. It's nice and poppy with a pretty experimental edge - surrealistic-pop I guess? It's a really interesting example of the lesser known music scene in Berlin at the moment too. Playing below is the equally surreal video to my favourite cut from the EP 'Ou Inme'.

The whole EP is freely available to download by clicking here.

Jay Babin

This just turned up in my inbox, I can't tell you much about Jay Babin except that this is the first EP and it's actually really good. All the tracks have this distinctly folky edge but it's infused with lo-fi glitches and elements of funk that actually make a really interesting sound. There's a tag on the Bandcamp page that actually refers to it as being 'urban folk', I have to say I kind of agree with it. I'm really glad I found this. Anyway the track below is my favourite pick from the EP, you can listen to the rest here which is available on a name your price basis

Clams Casino

Clammy Clams is back with his second instrumental mixtape,it follows up last years tape which pretty much blew my mind with tracks like this. This one features cuts from recent work with A$AP & Lil B, as well as that sick rework he did of Lana Del Rey's Born To Die and another of Washed Out's Amor Fati, which is playing below. You can download the entire mixtape completely free right here, thanks Clammy.

Fortune Howl

This is like, wow. Fortune Howl is part of Relief in Abstract(a label I post about all the time) and this is Depths, I think it's called Depths because it's a literal narrative into the creative of Bryce Linde's mind, like I couldn't really name any of these tracks as being a solid part of a specific genre; hell I wouldn't know what to call them. So I'm just going to describe them as being something that has spawned from the mind of a creative genius, a creative genius who has a very good ear for creating the most beautiful thing from the most obscure sounds.

The track below is my personal favourite, it's called Help and - as with all RIA releases - it's completely free to download. Click here to download/stream the rest of the release:

Stanley Duke

Spring is upon us, this means my love for folk music has emerged from its wintery sleep and is blossoming once more. This guy's called Stanley Duke and he makes some pretty nice music, perfect for doing anything that involves doing nothing. There's a whole 8-track album titled Animal Crackers via his bandcamp which is completely free to download, so I suggest you get this on some kind of portable device and go and find somewhere to lie with a beautiful view for a couple of hours: