Murakumo brings forth hidden projects with new EP ‘Identical Days’

The Dutch producer looks to his personal experiments as he focuses on solo releases

Murakumo has been a quiet side project for Luuc O over the past few years. The producer stood out for his contribution to the now retired IDM duo known as Ludique, and made a name for himself in the electronica community of Groningen in the Netherlands. Between preforming marathon DJ sets across the city, the artist would occasionally tinker with flavours of glitch, techno and UK garage. This aside into private work and experimental sampling would invariably end up stored on a pocket size USB, gradually planting the seeds for a new venture into the electronica scene, now coming to fruition.

The reclusive artist has finally begun to open up a little more, sharing his thoughts and ideas with the release of ‘Identical Days’ in December. The collection is a five track EP which delivers stirring but melodically smooth IDM, clean percussion sliding alongside mellow synth and low bass.

‘Identical Days’ gathers sounds of meditative future garage, and tinkers with ambience vibrant with character and stirred by manipulated vocals. Our featured track ‘Walk in the Park’ shimmers with light percussion, cosmic but cooling.

It’s a step away from the previous sound explored with Ludique, and a chance to wander in a fresh direction.

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Looking past boundaries, Apostrophic’s Clarity of Noise

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The first major album came from Apostrophic back in 2014, a six track journey somewhere between electro-acoustic solace and mellowed beats of UK garage. Based in Vancouver, Apostrophic takes notes from artists like Four Tet and Caribou, letting the music that inspires him feed into something more personal, and more experimental.

Laying out the materials that go into his sound seems to leave a surprisingly varied range of sources to pull from. The drum samples led by lines of snare drum are at home with the garage vibe, but at times the synth warms up tones of cosmic. Vocal samples fade in from the background like loops of futuristic drone, then later thicken into a harder bassline or end up being cut and scrambled.

In his second LP released early last year, standout tracks like ‘Waldorf’ feel like they’ve been patched together from Apostrophic’s toolbox, changing the rules throughout while skilfully avoiding losing grip on the song’s momentum.

The newest album ‘It is what it is’ released at the end of March 2020, and rounds off with ‘Clarity of Noise’; a mosaic of drone, classical and garage. This artist continues to present tracks with no respect for genre conventions, selecting what sounds best and managing to assimilate.

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Genre blending future sounds from French producer- Sc Ar

As Kurt Cobain said “punk is musical freedom. It’s saying, doing and playing whatever you want”. From punk to hip-hop, youth culture worldwide has continually strived to differentiate itself from the previous generation. Whether seeking identity or new forms of expression, this cyclical pursuit can be seen time and time again throughout recent history.

And modern day electronic music is no different, listening to some of the new sounds coming out from the next generation of producers it’s clear that unique ideas, genres and styles are constantly bubbling just below the surface. Whether it be the blending of genres, new and interesting production techniques, or disregard for any sort of structure or musical conventions of the past, there’s no denying that some of the new sounds coming out almost daily now are some of the most dynamic and sonically diverse we’ve yet to hear.

Take upcoming French producer- Sc Ar for example. His new single ‘Flirt’ teases with touches of house, vapourwave, idm, and electronica in a sound that can only be described as forward-thinking and future. Pitched vocal samples ascend white marble staircases of billowing, nostalgic pads while organic, woody percussion rains down from the rafters. As the young producer states “Flirt is my very first single. Others will come.”

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