Featured music selections on Nagamag. Everything you have to listen!

Omar Raafat – Infinity (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Neoclassical, Neoclassical Features, The Latest|Tags: (Neo) Classical, Cinematic, Epic Music, Omar Raafat, Review (EN-RU)|

Omar Raafat – Infinity
(Spotify)

“Out of all the beautiful, cinematic productions, Omar Raafat created a real miracle for us. His new work, -Infinity- confirms that. Wonderful emotional melodic lines and wise story telling here. ”

“Одно из самых красивых, кинематографичных произведений, которое стало для нас истинным откровением в начале 2021 года. Omar Raafat сотворил настоящее чудо. Его новая работа Infinity тому подтверждение.”

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New Contemporary Classical Track that features piano, string quartet and electronic beats and synthesizers.

End of Code – Deep Into Your Soul (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Electronica, Electronica Features, Features, The Latest|Tags: Electro Pop, End of Code, Experimental Electronic, Lounge, Review (EN-RU)|

End of Code – Deep Into Your Soul
(Spotify)

“Have ever listen to a new song and realize that this is it - made for you? Deep Into Your Soul does what title says, shuddering into you, into your soul. Memorable!”

“Бывает, включаешь новую, ранее не слышанную композицию и понимаешь, что вот оно, - твоё! Deep Into Your Soul полностью соответствует своему названию, содрогая вас и вашу душу.”

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The music was composed by Nicolas Saad, keyboard player, dj and music producer from France. The beat was made with the patterns of the legendary TR-808 drum machine and its design was used for the cover of the single.

The lyrics was written by Shawn Pereira who is a guitar player and singer for End of Code living in California. « It’s about trying to write a song with the title referring to the confinement period. I tend to write a lot of metaphors and images. The song's meaning is all in the hook. Now as we close again you can’t go out so you have to go in and down down deep into your soul, before you loss control

https://www.instagram.com/endofcode/

Sal Dulu – B (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Hip Hop Features, Hip-Hop, The Latest|Tags: Conscious Hip-Hop, Hip-hop, Review (EN), Sal Dulu|

Sal Dulu – B
(Spotify)

“Sal Dalu teams up with Koncept Jack$on into their new single B. And while the are grounded for what they do with their art, clearly this takes A. beautiful groove and well chopped samples placed into creating a melancholic atmosphere while the vocal performance tells the story in an abundant way. ”

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Tipped Dublin-based producer/musician, Sal Dulu is today sharing his new single “B” (feat Koncept Jack$on), self-released via his own Duluoz Records – listen here. The new music comes in-tandem with news of his debut album, Xompulse which is set for release on February 19, 2021. “B” comes off the back of last month's Line of Best Fit and NTS Radio-tipped release, "Alien Boy 96".

Stylistically, this new track finds Sal Dulu delving into downtempo hip-hop, sculpting a bed of rich aesthetics and dusty electronic tones with the tipped Richmond, VA-based artist, Koncept Jack$on layering his vocals over the top.

The new run of music from Sal Dulu, marks his first releases of the year following previous support from The Observer, Resident Advisor, Okay Player and more. Sonically, they leave off from where his earlier music took us, once again finding Sal Dulu demonstrate his versatility as a producer, fusing together different styles to present something which is at once cinematic and also intimate. . Thematically, the forthcoming collection deals with dreamscapes and liminal places, as well as tackling fragmented memories. "B" marks one of a number of collaborations on the new record with additional features coming from the Pitchfork/Stereogum-tipped Fly Anakin (Mutant Academy) and Atlanta, Georgia-based staHHr.

Speaking about the album, Sal Dulu says: "The album comprises fragments of aural and visual memories and assimilates these in a series of memory-based songs or dreams. The album can essentially be described as moving through a dreamscape."

Recorded between London and his home studio in Dublin, this new music adds to Sal Dulu's previous collection of songs that demonstrate his creative process from several angles. Exorcising an array of genres, everything from jazz, to classical, ambient and hip-hop, and ideas that he’s worked with over the last twelve months – largely throughout the nocturnal hours – since summer 2019, Xompulse is a distinctly soothing trip through memory with each track evocative of a different playback.

https://www.instagram.com/saldulumusic/
https://www.facebook.com/saldulu/

Alex Banks – Siren Call (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Techno, Techno Features, The Latest|Tags: Alex Banks, Downtempo, Electronica, Review (EN), Techno|

Alex Banks – Siren Call
(Spotify)

“Through a brilliant modular sound design witch rise from the depths of abyss, dark, hypnotic, with enormous driving energy, - Siren Call - from Alex Banks is a warning through frequencies. Top Notch concept! ”

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Siren Call is Nagamag pick from Tephra EP

The ideas emerged from two months in the rugged, black volcanic surroundings of the Canary Islands, Spain. Banks armed himself with a restricted set of equipment taken from his studio in Brighton and set about focusing on the core of his musical expression.

The 5 track EP draws an abrasive array of intertwined melodic structures - one that could only be formed by an adept sound designers’ skillset. The title track and single ‘Tephra’, is woundingly brash, jagged and skull reverberating, it paints a mental landscape appropriate to where the tracks were born, in the context of a melodic hook line.

Following on from his second studio album, Beneath the Surface which was released on Mesh in 2019. Banks’ reimagines a different story, one of which was sculpted by his time witnessing unearthly volcanic landscapes. The change in scenery he recalls brought a welcomed ‘change of mindset’ than the earlier intense period of locking himself away in his Brighton studio with intermittent bursts of time spent by the coast to foster creative thought. It brought a different intensity to Banks’ sound, one that impressively finds a line between home listening and club-focussed dance-floor bangers.

https://alexbanksmusic.bandcamp.com/album/tephra-ep

Luigi Tozzi x Claudio PRC – Lyra II (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Techno, Techno Features, The Latest|Tags: Ambient Techno, Hypnotic Techno, Luigi Tozzi x Claudio PRC, Review (EN), Techno|

Luigi Tozzi x Claudio PRC – Lyra II
(Spotify)

“Lyra II is our pick from the collaboration EP of Luigi Tozzi and Claudio PRC on 012 imprint.
4/4 minimal hypnotic assets layering with moving ambient textures and gently acid modular lines, delicate mixed in a sound production that tickles your ear senses and re-invites you to repeat the listening. ”

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https://012twelve.bandcamp.com/album/lyra

Altriparty & Hypsidia – Viral (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, House, House Features, The Latest|Tags: Altriparty, House, Hypsidia, Melodic Techno, Organic House, Review (EN-RU)|

Altriparty & Hypsidia – Viral
(Spotify)

“The new release from Hypsidia and Altriparty is a kind of mutualism of two worlds, in which Organic House and Melodic Techno harmoniously complement each other. Freedom is the unshakable axiom of our life with you.”

“Новый релиз от Hypsidia и Altriparty - это своеобразный мутуализм двух миров, в котором Organic House и Melodic Techno гармонично дополняют друг друга. Freedom - это непоколебимая аксиома нашей с вами жизни.”

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Dance Yourself Clean x Michael Medrano – Sugar (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Pop, Pop Features, The Latest|Tags: Dance Yourself Clean x Michael Medrano, Indie Electronic, Pop, Review (EN-RU)|

Dance Yourself Clean x Michael Medrano – Sugar
(Spotify)

“Dance Yourself Clean and Michael Medrano with the support of the Lights & Music Collective introduce us to the new work of Sugar, which has managed to create an interesting resonance in the soul of everyone who hears it again and again. Indie Electronic's melodic vocals and light beats are a cocktail for your mood!”

“Dance Yourself Clean и Michael Medrano при поддержке Lights & Music Collective знакомят нас с новой работой Sugar, у которой получилось создать интересный резонанс в душе каждого, кто услышит её вновь и вновь. Мелодичный вокал и лёгкие ритмы Indie Electronic - коктейль для вашего настроения!”

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Since 2013 Dance Yourself Clean had spent nearly every single weekend throwing parties across North America. With the pandemic the boys have turned their entire focus onto the party's transformation into a juggernaut music project. In the first full year since the project was created, 2020 brought in over 2.3 million streams on Spotify alone. With their new single "Sugar" set to release on NYE at 12am EST it looks like they're setting the scene for what may be a massive year of releases and collaborations. DYC had this to say about "Sugar", "Normally we'd be spending NYE with our friends and DYC family somewhere... Maybe Los Angeles at Teragram Ballroom or NYC at Baby's All Right. It kills us that we won't be able to be together this year celebrating. Setting "Sugar's" release date for midnight on the east coast and 9pm on the west coast is our way of being together with our DYC family across the nation. It may seem silly, but it means something to us and hopefully them too."

https://www.instagram.com/danceyourselfclean
https://www.facebook.com/DanceYourselfClean

MxBG – Rite (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Psychill, Psychill Features, The Latest|Tags: Experimental Electronic, Glitch, idm, MxBG, Review (EN-RU)|

MxBG – Rite
(Spotify)

“Experimental work of MxBG in his track Rite from Astyanax Records is a kind of fossil in the genre framework of IDM sound. In the best traditions of the old school and early work of Richard David James.”

“Экспериментальная работа MxBG - Rite от Astyanax Records своего рода ископаемое в жанровых рамках IDM звучания. В лучших традициях старой школы и ранних работ Richard David James.”

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"Rite" is an electronic variation on a sample of Stravinsky's ballet "The Rite of Spring". Between onirism and savagery, it unfolds like a meditation taking its source in the complex, haunting and implacable rhythm of the final sacrificial dance of "The Rite of Spring".

https://www.instagram.com/mxbg.music/

The French produser MxBG invites us to an electronic musical and visual journey, between dreaming, exaltation and nostalgia. He mixes to an exploratory techno with industrial touches his sense of orchestral colours and organic melodies.

Immersed in Beethoven’s symphonies and Wagner’s operas since childhood, MxBG was introduced to modern music via two great works: OK Computer by Radiohead and Londinium by Archive. MxBG’s carefully-crafted music reflects this wide range of inspirations and blends classical instruments with synthetisers and samples.

Fascinated by machines and their contribution to art, he develops real-time generative art algorithms that he presents in his live show articulating electronic explorations and visual experimentations.

https://youtu.be/qr250IoKjok

Intermission – Laniakea (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Features, Psychill, Psychill Features, The Latest|Tags: Ambient, Downtempo, Drone, Intermission, Review (EN-RU)|

Intermission – Laniakea
(Spotify)

“From the very first seconds, when you immerse your consciousness in Laniakea, it is difficult not to notice the attraction of Downtempo with its soothing rhythm and absorbing, such a measured Ambient in the background. When power is in harmony, and harmony in music is Intermission.”

“С самых первых секунд, когда вы погружаете своё сознание в Laniakea, сложно не заметить притяжение Downtempo с его умиротворяющим ритмом и поглощающий, такой размеренный Ambient на фоне. Когда сила в гармонии, а гармония в музыке - это Intermission.”

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The INTERMISSION project is characterized by spatial themes.

Laniakea is a set of galaxies, also called Laniakea Supercluster, where the Milky Way also resides and therefore our solar system.

https://www.facebook.com/intermission432

Ricardo Alcantara – Waiting (Spotify)

Categories: Audio, Electronica Features, Features, House, The Latest|Tags: House, Melodic Techno, Progressive House, Review (EN-RU), Ricardo Alcantara|

Ricardo Alcantara – Waiting
(Spotify)

“Holy Pig Records and Ricardo Alcantara & Loüs present a new, energetic work in the Progressive House genre - Waiting, beautiful melodic line and heartwarming vocals here.”

“Holy Pig Records и Ricardo Alcantara & Loüs представляют новую, энергичную работу в жанре Progressive House - Waiting.”

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The track is inspired by melodic techno and melodic house, seeking to integrate these underground genres into a commercial dance track.

This track is inspired by the English rave culture led by artists like Camelphat and Gorgon City.

The story is inspired by a girl in a "toxic" relationship, where both share a strong love for each other but her boyfriend is not willing to have a serious relationship and they both know they have to end but neither takes the step, until now. the girl decides to finally cut