YR LYF

MP3: Time Wharp - yrLyf

New cosmic-r&b track from Atlanta/Boston producer Time Wharp. This one starts off with chiming komische arpeggios, before revealing itself as an expert r&b crooner with an R Kelly sample. Off the forthcoming BLK EP on Astro Nautico.

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MP3: Time Wharp - Mandelbrotset

(Co-Premiere w/ Altered Zones): Most of the much-blogged Atlanta-based crew who are vaguely labelable from the outside as Peace Age (C Powers, CH-Rom, Geist, heRobust and Twins et al) have been crunching wonky electro and hip-hop into a bong-centric, compressed and scruffy range of beats since their teen days. That might go some way to explain the latest from Time Wharp aka Patrick Loggins; it's in a more claustrophobic 404'd zone this time where the NES malfunctions of his previous Helvetica release lock into a more robotic groove and nerdy/bedroom sort of singularity.

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NEON VORTEX

Time Wharp - 1992

This Atlanta producer's effervescent jams are pretty fucking impressive for the way he piles electronic textures on top of each other and still manages to nail this totally effortless-sounding luxuriant vibe. Not sure what 1992 has to do with this track, though, since it's basically the anti-grunge and so now it hurts. Well, it doesn't hurt: it's got that new new age thing happening, light and ephemeral and refreshing, completely removed from anything resembling real world sounds or real world emotions.

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[Download Helvetica EP from Bandcamp]