Ethnofusion

A casual conversation between the extraordinary producer known as Kimyan Law, and Outtallectuals writer, Molly Sisson; carried out during the Coronavirus lockdown about the artist’s unique musical character & masked aesthetic. We’ve long been fans of Kimyan Law’s music which always tiptoes within the liminal states between liquid drum n ...

 Written by Molly Sisson | Edited by Baxtak The French dub scene has been thriving these past years, ever evolving with different collectives popping up all around the country. Names such as Panda Dub, High Tone and Kanka have been paving the way for an electronic perspective on the ...

Joaquin Cornejo – Las Frutas EP {Released by Earthly Measures} Joaquin Cornejo is back with his eagerly awaited vinyl debut ‘Las Frutas EP’, showcasing earthly tenderness, umbrous textures and accomplished sound design. Cornejo’s six track project channels ambient and footwork with Latin percussion, coated in a shadowy omnipresence of dub-techno. ...

Shivelight Summary In the last few years, through our curation partnership with Samaya‘s Shivelight YouTube channel, research into the world fusion genres has become the bread and butter, and the main focus of our curative work. This means that in all the curation that we can fit into a day’s ...

We return to you with the Outtallectuals blog after a 10-month hiatus since we discontinued our Ethnofusion platform and merged it with Samaya‘s Shivelight channel instead. The task of reviewing dozens of songs for a very limited number of readers had become daunting and it only made sense to us to keep ...

Ethnoeight: Middle East by Outtallectuals Ethnoeight is a free sampler compiled by Outtallectuals that tries to capture the theme and sound of Middle Eastern music in the form of the Trap electronic sub-genre. This EP is in a partt of the Outtallectuals research for omni-dimensional music that manage to fuse ...

You must be living in a Martian cave if you have not followed what is going on in Palestine / Israel in the past few weeks (or decades for that matter). While more and more people realize that this war is not that of religion and it is a product of ...

We first heard of Seven D when we were searching for songs to include in our Ethereality compilation and subsequently, the ‘System of Division’ struck the exact correct chords for the album. ADHD by Seven D A year on, it’s great to see ‘ADHD: Attention Dialed into a Higher Dimension’, ...

The artist chosen for the focus of this introduction and review is definitely different from any artist we have had before. This week we will be moving away from predominantly electronic music and opening the garden door to indie/alternative greatness. 30 seconds into the Slow Machete experience, you will understand ...

What is a musician? Is someone who calls to prayer from his local mosque a musician? Are DJs musicians? What about parrots? Are sound engineers musicians? If a musician is not the master of a specific instrument? Too many questions about the technicality of what being a musician is. However, ...

This week we will be focusing on the duo that is Tentura, playing music within and on the borders of the psychedelic sub-genres of Psybient and Psychill. With the ever-evolving format of this blog, we bring you accompanying weekly mixes. Rather than copying links from SoundCloud to talk about the tracks ...

This week’s feature Kameronessi is an artist who goes beyond making music in terms of simple harmonic convergence and more into a full scale omni-vergence of sound into a story. Clearly it’s the sounds of someone who is not only a musician but a highly professional sound engineer. The Last Candle ...

If you’ve been following our spaces, you’ll know that David Samano a.k.a Keeplove? has been on our radar for a while. One of our admins [A] came across his music while on a search to explore soundcloud with [insert]step tags. One of these words chosen was folk and beyond the ...

A Snippet of Tribal Dances by Kappah from Bedroom Research Records. Listen to this madness! ”A special, irresistible and fully entertaining mixture of funky analog synths, sampling tricks, hip-hop, ethno grooves, musak colors and newschool dancemusic codes. The real forces of those tunes are the perfect control, the spot on ...