This is the first installment of a little segment I like to refer to as "that COLORADO sound" (said in a voice similar to that of CBS college basketball analyst Gus Johnson). Right now, there is soooo much electronica coming out of Colorado--specifically Boulder and Fort Collins--and a lot of it has a similar sound/aesthetic ("that COLORADO sound/aesthetic"). Make some fresh, Dilla-referencing, electro-hip-hop thumpers, sprinkle some DnB on it, add live instrumentation, slap on a sideways fitted and an LRG trackjacket, and play it out live.
It sounds kind of disparaging when I type it out, but I am feeling this style of music right now. I love live drums, and a lot of these COLORADO drummers have some serious chops. Big Gigantic, Boulder-based duo of the Motet's Dom Lalli and Jeremy Salken, has the chop game on lock. Dom produces tracks at home on his computer, then teams up with drummer Jeremy and plays them out with live keys, drums, and a FUCKING SAXOPHONE. The recorded beats are ill, and some of those are linked below, but the live sets, in which the duo segues between songs like a DJ spinning records, are the real deal. Stay tuned for more updates on that COLORADO sound, and let me know if you're feeling it.
Here's a live set (soundboard) from the wonderful Fox Theater in Boulder, 1.3.09.
Here's a bunch of links to studio tracks that, if I do say so myself, have killed every DJ set I've seen them in. "Blaze These Trails" is such a banger. Enjoy.
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