Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Ahmi - Overstand / Overstand VIP

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Holy shit; alright so before I start rambling, just hit play, like, just hit play... Ok, so anyway (you hit play right?) this beat starts out like most of Ahmi's beats tend to; some next-dimensional sample from the bowels of the slow-riding groove center known as trip-hop, which usually makes most of us just cock our eyebrow and mutter something along the lines of "where the fuck does this kid find this shit..." But then the beat comes in and let me be the first to tell you, the coordination between the sample splicing and rolling hi-hats is absolutely ridiculous (this kid has has a way with his high pitched low-reverb hat-lines that make it sound like he stole wind chimes out from some ancient chinese god's tomb...man, like... I'm telling you) and overall this "simple beat" seems to strive to be anything but. Overall the only thing I feel we could say against it is basically the same personal vendetta we have against all of Ahmi's recent work; why so short? One has to imagine a kid as insane as this could expand so much further down the line with these creations; what happens when an Ahmi beat hits the four minute mark? What does Ahmi making a bridge to an instrumental sound like? These are questions that Ray and I would probably kill people to obtain the answers to...



And just because we love you, behold; the super secret redux...

DJ KayLo - January Mix

So the ride from my house to my job is about 10-15min (unless my car decides to be an asshole, then it takes much, much longer T_T) and this is time I'm usually browsing around on the internet for things to listen to; and it was during this daily EDM fueled commute that I stumbled across this mini-mix by DJ KayLo.
Now I find a lot of us use the commute as a preparation towards upcoming events when it comes to our playlist, if we're going out for the night expecially, we tend to pump ourselves up with a mix filled with hype to get us pumped, because FUCK IT right? We're going the fuck out, fuck school, fuck work, fuck it.
So this weekend when your headed to some rave or party or even just out with your friends to get some drinks, do yourself a favor and listen to this mix; it's a colloquial blend of traditional house, with some sprinkling of electro-step and other power-play genres here and there; a good litmus test for the make-up of the standard club scene currently I feel. Also, while we here at F.T.S. can't wait to see the young KayLo expands into next conceptually; this mini-mix does seem to be a good starting point, showing all the potential fans that she's good at what she does, for the kind of parties that she plays.