Happy Holidays from all of us here at the Playmaker Group®. We're all dancing in times of gratitude and it's a pleasure to delight you with a brand new Cusax song! The spirit of the season is here and 2012 will be a GOOD year. Take it from us... This song says it all.
There is this nice tune floating around in cyber space. A gentle, horizontal, unearthly, unbiased and mostly unknown tune having a calm walk on the clouds. They are hailing from NYC and we are talking about Follow Me and the track 'Beyond The Horizon'. Wait, it that some DW designs artwork?
Down the streets, do you see him? Do you see that guy with the mirror shades? Who! ... Is that who I think it is? Yeh, that bro with the mirror shades in the convertible red Ferrari. He's back! Back on the streets of Miami. In awe. That guy, cruising and roaring right down Ocean Drive, picking up rollerblading bikini babes while blasting his damn 80's rock.
You get the picture. Now check out the latest tune by Rosso Corsa recording artist and spearhead Miami Nights 1984. This really sets the tone for a possible new album by MN84. We are highly excited about this O.D. tune and for what that may still be coming!
Here's a relatively new bandcamp release worth your time and listening pleasure. The Alpha Boy brings us a 14 track collection of masterful retro fantasy electro music to make you dream out loud! No nightmares, sweet dreams are made of these. Get with it. Get 'Electronic Feelings' for free download here:
You can, for a moment, forget all those hipster beats and neo vintage jams. We present you a mixtape (or album in disguise) by the black ghoul himself, Sir. Aleister X. Phantom beats, ghostly chants and tribute songs to the darkest corners and alleyways straight from New York City via Brixton via Kingston. Get this in your thick black skull, The Black Skull Music Mixtape is a 29 song, tune and skit collection produced by Aleister X for Sonny Midnite Music with executive production by Andrew W.K. and the Steev Mike label. It really is quite the ride and it's up there, sky high with the 2011 Playmaker favorites! Black Friday never felt so right, never felt as haunted. With appearances by Neil Hamburger, Matt Sweeney, David Tibet and many more you are being led into the dark by Aleister X to get smoked out, Midi-sheeeeeitted and creep walked in what might be the ghouliest mixtape thusfar. Free download!
This is one of THE ALBUMS OF 2011 for the Playmaker Group. Yes. Honestly and truthfully, a truly beautiful piece of work we are almost out of words. It is the highly exceeding sophomore album from Mitch Murder called 'Current Events' on Rosso Corsa, which is almost outshining the already amazing first album he did.
This one is so soft. So heartfelt. Pure love stroking you like a gentle breeze of air, a touch of breath, a gently wind caressing your body. Yep. Mostly just nice and slow jams...
But that is not the only thing. There is certain aggression in the album as well, some faster paced songs. Still they never take away any of the warmth and care of it's total package. Obviously influenced by the likes of soundtrack maestros like Vince DiCola and such, the new album presents itself as a true program of timeless music scoring like media flashes of dreamscape music.
'Current Events' has a red thread of voice samples from news flashes, aerobics, commercials, games, sport reports and the Rosso Corsa trademark of fast sports cars and race sounds. This "soundtrack", this "score", or simply, this music album is an exceeding, contemporary vision of a certain era that hasn't been forgotten by a long shot.
Some of you might know the name Fatima Al Qadiri AKA Ayshay, from the 'Muslim Trance Minimix' she did last year. But now, the Senegal born, Kuwait raised, Brooklyn based multi-media artist hits us with a collection of wide ranging tunes on her debut EP 'Genre-Specific Xperience'.
On this debut EP for Uno Records, it surely isn't all Muslim trance... It goes even further than that as all 5 songs range from a wide variety of genres, redefining the word 'genre' on itself with influences from Gregorian trance via Hip Hop to Juke stuff.
It was just like a month ago. We went inside this dark abandoned building and did not only encounter strange noises and weird vibes, no, we found this box of cassettes which were basically a bunch of answering machine tapes and recorded tapes from lost radio transmissions. But one tape in particular stood out; it said 'Future or Fantasy'. When we tried to play the cassette it seemed blank. Strange. Always strange when something is written on a cassette but yet seemed blank. After some time we decided to go through all the answering machine tapes, we got more clues. Clues coming from a mysterious, dark voice saying 'Future' and 'Fantasy' repeatedly, seriously, way too often to be a coincidence. But then the final clue came in one of the last A.M. tapes we listened too. That same, mysterious voice told us to go back to the house and look on the same place the voice described as "Audio Noir" and find what we had been looking for. It further told us our final Future/Fantasy clue would only to be found in the dark. So we hit back the next night. It was a cold, early November night as we went back to the abandoned building, went up the crackling stairs, up to the room and look for the Audio Noir zone. And there it was, just a single cassette tape that said 'Noir Deco - Future To Fantasy' - complete with track listing et al, written in some sort of haunted handwriting. The result of what is on this mysterious tape turns out to be one of the most daring, mysterious and beautiful soundtrack scores we have ever encountered...
Seriously teasing us with some wicked new stuff, Power Glove have announced their long-awaited return with their second EP and have dropped a little surprise for Halloween.
Look behind you, did you see that shadow? What ghost? Where ghost? Who ghost! Get spooked... We are not alone. What entities are lurking in the dark? Report your ghost stories in the comment box if you have any.
The new Noir Deco album 'Future To Fantasy' is coming very soon to a download button near you. As a prelude we welcome you to grab his wonderful collaboration with MPM Soundtracks.
The track 'Journeys' really does what it stands for. Two neo-vintage synth masters colliding and writing a perfect score while magicly leading you on a trip through some vast and epic Blade Runner landscapes. Very dreamy and wonderful, serving as the perfect appetizer for Future To Fantasy.
The album will be out this Friday on our very own Playmaker Ent.
