[Majestic Sounds] ELK BEATS 003 :: EshOne – Chale :: EshOne – Strain

It’s been a hellish week in music. The digital audio landscape these last two weeks have been alarmingly barren. Like the way your tongue feels after a bong-rip of $5 mixed bag barren. A dry lick on porcelain feeling.

In an attempt to sonically oil up the ol’ blogging steam engine (and to prevent completely boring the fuck out of you guys) I decided to rant to my manically impulsive friend and forward-bass music producer EshOne. As expected he swiftly determined it was time to unleash a majestical beast, Elk Beats 003, off his self-distributed dual digital & vinyl label, Elk Beats.

First up is Chale: combine stretchy synths, a bad experience you had in Rosarito at a tequila bar, percolating Maracas, and a syncopated off-snare thing, and the result is a doomsy Barrio Bass track that sounds fun… But confronted by a thrashy distorted saw lead atop an eerie bathroom flute melody and an uncomfortable track-long anticipation for a breakdown that’s never delivered, it’s clear this was all just a front; and there’s for some shady shit about to go down.

On the same tip of almost Latin yet stuck in a ghetto groove, comes a disco tom-laden pacifier-gnawing track that met up with Mr Oizo at the breakdown for an afternoon cup of… Jameson. In a demitasse. (NO spoons, pinkies out.) Strain’s “FUCK are there BEES INSIDE THE CLUB?!”/lead is cleverly matched-up with a sinister low 808 rumble that’s way past kick drum frequency. Fuck bees. Pump up those fire-engine red Nike air pumps, drop some ecstasy, and hit up the nearest swap meet for the full STRAIN effect.

Elk Beats 003 is available EXCLUSIVELY on Elk Beats’ site, in both .WAV & .MP3 forms – for the same price. It doesn’t get more mothafucking whimsical than that.

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