2/11/2024 0 Comments Perfect shift compilation![]() ![]() It's also labelled "new music," but it sounds more like loops and edits of obscure tracks, run through gently psychedelic effects. The key descriptors here are "loose" and "swamps." Disco Mantras feels gaseous, hazy, hard to grasp. The album text calls them "loose-ish collaborations straight from the swamps and isolated bus stops of the lower mainland." You'd be hard-pressed to know who does what, as producer credits like "Blue Heron's Tribute to PH" and "Lion Heart and Cee Zee Du" don't quite clarify who is behind these seven tracks. ![]() So why should their first full-length be any different? While affiliates like Cloudface and Hashman Deejay have released albums on Black Opal and Future Times, Mood Hut presents a compilation with Disco Mantras. In building up such fervor, the Canadian collective has always chosen the offbeat path. Despite only releasing three singles last year, they ranked #13 in RA's Top 20 labels of 2015. Go figure that in following up Jack J's breezy house groover "Something (On My Mind)," they went with the bathtub ambience of Slow Riffs. In the span of just six singles, Vancouver's Mood Hut label went from "locals only" cassettes to limited 12-inch pressings to the top of year-end charts. ![]()
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