Indians & Cowboys, Musical recommendation
Once in a while, an album drops that just sucks you in to the magical world of sound it has created. I've had a bunch of album "crushes" over the year in a bunch of varied styles and genres. I've been a metal head at times, a hiphoper, a psychadelic raver, a pop:er and a reggae aficionado, all in the name of good, well-produced music.
This time I just need to recommend "Indians & Cowboys" by the Danish duo (trio) Den Sorte Skole. It's their latest album and it dropped a little less than a week ago and I can't get enough. It's a musical journey where the two have just done the biggest archaeological dig through the crates possible. A mind-blowing number of samples from the past 60-70 years of music. They're no strangers to digging as their previous albums Lektion 1-3, have been equally well researched. But this album, for some reason or other, just sticks out to me.
"Indians & Cowboys" opens up with cowbells (WE NEED MORE COWBELLS!) and a vast electronic, almost ominously ambient, soundscape before switching lanes completely into a vast array of everything from breakbeat, middle eastern instrumental music, African-American slave songs, dubstep, blues and chanting and praying (?) to reggae, metal, hiphop, country and field recordings of people talking and storms rolling in, just to mention a few things.
It's a work of samples that has created something original. Very much in the same league as the ingenious DJ Shadow did on "Endtroducing.." but updated, morphed and revamped for the millennium kids.
The dramatic structure of the album, is complete with a set-up, crescendo and a haunting finale and gives me, the listener, an experience of being transported into the weirdest of world where this would be the soundtrack. The structure reminds me of the genius of Nicolas Jaar/DARKSIDE in it's power as "one piece".
I don't know how many consecutive listens I've now done, but this album has eaten me up, and I can't get enough. Make sure you catch it and support their amazing work!
Don't be a stranger! Loves
This time I just need to recommend "Indians & Cowboys" by the Danish duo (trio) Den Sorte Skole. It's their latest album and it dropped a little less than a week ago and I can't get enough. It's a musical journey where the two have just done the biggest archaeological dig through the crates possible. A mind-blowing number of samples from the past 60-70 years of music. They're no strangers to digging as their previous albums Lektion 1-3, have been equally well researched. But this album, for some reason or other, just sticks out to me.
"Indians & Cowboys" opens up with cowbells (WE NEED MORE COWBELLS!) and a vast electronic, almost ominously ambient, soundscape before switching lanes completely into a vast array of everything from breakbeat, middle eastern instrumental music, African-American slave songs, dubstep, blues and chanting and praying (?) to reggae, metal, hiphop, country and field recordings of people talking and storms rolling in, just to mention a few things.
It's a work of samples that has created something original. Very much in the same league as the ingenious DJ Shadow did on "Endtroducing.." but updated, morphed and revamped for the millennium kids.
The dramatic structure of the album, is complete with a set-up, crescendo and a haunting finale and gives me, the listener, an experience of being transported into the weirdest of world where this would be the soundtrack. The structure reminds me of the genius of Nicolas Jaar/DARKSIDE in it's power as "one piece".
I don't know how many consecutive listens I've now done, but this album has eaten me up, and I can't get enough. Make sure you catch it and support their amazing work!
Don't be a stranger! Loves
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