Wav Loyel spent about three years experimenting with sound, production and rap style before releasing his first rash of trap-based hip hop tracks. With an obvious predilection to wordsmithing and linguistics, the Indianapolis-based artist says he’s always been writing lyrics, but the idea to put them to a beat came later. I always wrote lyrics …
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New Artist Spotlight: Restless Mosaic Lives Up to Its Name With Debut Album [Video]
IDM is a fickle mistress, as is experimental EDM. Between figuring out how to make the sounds in one’s head, having almost no template to go by and usually needing some sort of concept to explain the weirdness audiences are hearing, it’s only the bravest souls who toil away on such concept albums. Luckily, Seattle-based …
New Artist Spotlight: Captn K Brings Lofi House Back to the ‘Salad Days,’ Whatever that Means…
Captn K is hardly a new artist when it comes to chronological time. Nathan Nisbet, the artist behind this moniker, has been producing music in one form or another for over 12 years. From beachy surf rock to experimental breakbeats to house, Nisbet has explored it all with a lofi hipster vibe and a smooth, …
New Artist Spotlight: The Science of Sound With Electric Treatment Free
We may think of electronic music as more connected to science and math due to the equipment it’s made on and seeing the waveforms onscreen in ways our musical predecessors could only have dreamed, but the science and math of music has been heavily studied at the very least since the time of the ancient …
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New Artist Spotlight: Flyght Club Brings Some Much Needed Chill Lofi Vibes to 2021
Flyght Club is the moniker given to a new project from LA-based multi-instrumentalist and producer, Shauvik Sharan. With his first single “So Alone for So Long” 2019, Shauvik introduced the Flyght Club style as a little bit jazzy and funky, a little lofi and containing a lot of emotive, honest lyrics. The sound has only …
New Artist Spotlight: Amanda Easton Solidifies Her Style With New Album ‘Wallflower’ [Renaissance Records]
Amanda Easton is far from new, and in fact YEDM has even covered her before in the form of a guest artist on Once Around Saturn’s “These Promises” single in 2017. Since then, she released an EP called Polaroids and Postcards that’s both kitschy and evocative, exemplifying the style she’s been creating which she calls “theatrical electronica …
New Artist Spotlight: Nicholas Gunn Releases an Album to Get Us all in ‘Sound Condition’
It’s definitely a bit of a misnomer to feature Nicholas Gunn in our New Artist Spotlight tag but somehow a great oversight has occurred here at YEDM and we’ve never actually featured this ambient and experimental electronica veteran. The “spotlight” bit is definitely apt, however, as Gunn’s new album, Sound Condition, deserves more than one. Having …
New Artist Spotlight: UNDREAM’s Early Refinement is Only the Beginning for his Bright Future
Last June, UNDREAM debuted his first single, “Freak.” Since its initial release, the young Swedish producer has premiered one other tune and garnered 1.7 million streams across both songs on Spotify alone. His latest single, “Nightmare” with Neoni, is a continuation of his haunting yet playful sound. “Nightmare” embraces the sinister side of music production. …
New Artist Spotlight: Oneo Fakind Studies the Cosmic Cycles and ‘The Start of Something’ [Video]
With titles like “Nostalgia for the Present,” “Why Do I Keep Ending Up Here” and “Decay of the False Vacuum,” the fourth album by Toronto-based duo Oneo Fakind is trippy before you even hit play. A study in synth modulations and spacey sound design, The Start of Something manages to raise deep and powerful questions about …
New Artist Spotlight: Prospertine Brightens Up Darkwave With ‘Home’
Adren Leigh and Jeremy Bastard have both been fixtures in NYC’s art rock and electronica scene, Bastard as a solo producer and Leigh as the voice of indie pop group Arden and the Wolves. With their debut single “Home,” Leigh and Bastard have formed Prospertine, a “darkwave industrial dance pop” project in which each of …
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