Frequency Of The Week No. 2: Cheshire
–Written by Kevin Madert
Electronic music’s explosive expansion seems to have hit Australia and New Zealand harder than almost anywhere else in recent memory. The meteoric rise of artists like Flume has been coupled with the emergence of a plethora of smaller artists with huge potential. The region has become a hotbed for glitch producers in particular; Opiuo just embarked on his first full-fledged world tour, and labels like Adapted Records have begun to curate some of the most promising up-and-coming talent. That’s where we find Cheshire, the man who’s redefining glitch-funk with his blend of uplifting melodies, non-traditional instrumentation, and deceptively heavy breakdowns.
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Quick Six: The Best of Glitch-Hop 2014
–Written by Kevin Madert
I know we’re only a little over halfway through 2014, but the amount of quality music that’s already been released is – to quote a close friend – “fucking bonkers.” It’d be a hell of a task to catalog it all for you at once, so I’ll break it down into loose genre categories, starting here today with music under the broken beat umbrella.
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