For your Mellow Monday evening, we have a little hip hop instrumental gem from Soulstruck and MKSB. It also describes the state of my bedroom 99% of the time. Messy Bed features some funky instrumentation on the keys and guitar, with a swingy, laid back broken beat bringing it all together. Have a listen, and enjoy the rest of your Monday night.
- KJ
I came across CATMAGIC on my Soundcloud stream a little while back, and through a little bit of profile exploration, also came across Koala - which I believe are two pseudonyms for the same producer. His material really embodies a very laid back chill vibe, which is exactly the type of music we try to post for Mellow Mondays. The tracks here have kind of a chill trap vibe, but they're all so soothing that it's hard to actually classify them as such. Have a listen below and see for yourself.
All of these tracks are available for free download as well, so hit the download button in the embedded players on any that you feel like adding to your collection - it's really that simple! Also make sure to check out both Koala's Soundcloud and CATMAGIC's Soundcloud for more material, and give them a follow to keep up to date on new releases.
- KJ
We wanted to share this track earlier, but felt like it would fit best as a Mellow Monday post and held off until today. Abbey Fontaine and Edwin O'Hara are long term friends and a duo out of Melbourne working under the project name Yugen. After both having had to pull through some tough personal battles, they were faced with the choice of whether or not to continue with their musical project. As you can tell since you're reading this here, they decided to continue and put everything into their music. This approach definitely comes across in their first track. Yugen sent some of their material my way through freshdrops email, and I'm glad they did - Calgary blew me away with the emotional depth and vocal chops exhibited on it. The backing track is a fairly simple but driving beat, but the real strength of this piece comes from the ambience created in the background along with the slow evolving melodic elements all working in unison with Abbey's superb vocal work and lyricism. Best of all, Calgary is released as a free download from their Soundcloud, which can even be downloaded from the embedded player below.
Yugen has already had some attention from Triple J, and have also put together a short teaser video available on Vimeo. Calgary is the first piece of work from Yugen, but it has me just waiting on their next piece. Make sure to follow their pages and watch for this duo as more material becomes available.
- KJ
This Monday we've got a throwback to the end of November that graced our Soundcloud feed. Tapes delivers a smooth chill trap vibe on this. This should get your Monday off on the right foot. This one needs little further description, hit play below and enjoy.
Oh, and it's also a free download. Imagine that? Part of an entire free 27 track compilation from Shoeboxx Recordings.
- KJ
What better track for a Mellow Monday post than one with the lyrics "I'm just stuck here in a dream"? This one is for those of you day dreaming on Monday, or those of you still stuck in weekend mode.
Believe it or not, this is one of Autograf's first original tracks, though they have amassed a large following on multiple web platforms and have done a number of remixes (Notably a great remix of Odesza's All We Need, which was included in the March 6th Friday Care Package). There is no release date for this yet, so streaming will have to do for the time being. Autograf also announced a supporting role on tour with Klingande, so you can expect to be hearing more buzz about these guys as time goes on.
This has a real chill, summery/beach vibe right from the start, with great vocals coming in at the 0:36 mark. The whole track has a fairly laid back house feel to it, so hit play and enjoy whatever dream you happen to be stuck in today.
- KJ
Today's Mellow Monday vibes are brought to you from Manila based producer CRWN. He brings a chilled funky vibe to this free download on MIRAJE, a net-label based in Paris. This track bridges a number of genres, with elements of funk, electronica, future beats and hip hop, Better Together comes out with a distinct feel that fans of any of these genres should appreciate, while also appeasing an appetite for something new.
Speaking of Better Together, this track and your music collection would be better together... and with no economic barriers in your way, why not pick it up through the download button on the player below?
- KJ
This is a chilled out trap track from Medasin for Mellow Monday. Hey Now works with some funky, jazzy sounds accompanied by a pitched and chopped vocal, all worked together over a laid back percussion section.
If you're digging this, it is available from Medasin's bandcamp page for $2.
- KJ
I stumbled across this spectacular track on a late night perusal of Soundcloud, as I tend to do. I was was doing some reading as my stream continued through, but this track made me drop what I was doing and go back to see just what this was. MiST features some really interesting guitar work layered over some heavy percussion as the feature point of the track. Later introducing some chopped vocals, everything flows together really nicely in what results in a strangely electrifying but chilled out instrumental.
MiST was released as part of Soundpalette's Sentience EP, released on Future Beat Records and available for purchase via their bandcamp page. You can pick this up along with the rest of the EP for as little as £1 or more.
And in case you missed our previous post on Soundpalette and need a little more, we're revisiting this awesome free download from a little while back, Questions. Make sure you head to Soundpalette's Soundcloud page for much more.
- KJ
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