Great New Singles & Emerging Artists from the Independent Underground - September 22nd, 2023

Toxic Positivity- Synth Bird (Precursor)

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Toxic Positivity is back in the blog and for good reason. He's a versatile electronic producer, equally adept at producing moments of sublime dreamtronica like "Synth Bird" - today's focus track from his accomplished  Apophenic Eye EP, as he is speaker worrying IDM or future tribalism.
Find him head held high in the Slowtronic Playlist.

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K. Edward Smith - Ghosts (Rabid Turtle)

K. Edward Smith is a new artist on the TSMM folk radar courtesy of the "Ghosts" single from his refreshingly eclectic Alt-Folk LP, "Penny Picture Show", which I urge you to check out after you've sunk into this lovely slice of rhythmically steady, tenderly sung, gently played, lightly soundscaped & pleasantly melancholic folk that should be on any respectable (Slow) Folk Playlist.

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Joseph Shabason - Zero-Donny Barley (Telephone Explosion)

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Shabason continues to stretch out with his new LP that scores the soundtrack for seminal 1996 skate video from Toy Machine. "Zero / Donny Barley" sounds like a hotel lounge bar jazz quartet outdoor practise session recorded next to a skatepark where someone has sneakily slipped some ambient music onto the turntable. Find it at home in the Ambient Pop Playlist for argument's sake.

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Peter Manning Robinson - Way Station (Owl Walk)

A final slice of genre ambiguity to round things off today, this time from Peter Manning Robinson, who shows off his refracted piano sounds - the result of experimenting with hardware & software triggered by his classically rooted piano playing. The result in this case is a crystalline piano led, lightly dubbed, ambient electronic soundscape that I've dropped in the Slow Jazz Playlist to start a heated debate.

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