milesbluue - Ooze (So Long) [Self Release]

The Slow Music Movement
3 days ago
2 min read

This is the cover for milesbluue's Ooze (So Long) single. It shows an abstract artwork with red, blue, and multi-colored geometric shapes and organic forms. Textures resemble a dreamy landscape setting.

Milesbluue is another in an increasingly long line of shadowy producers that prefers to offer scant information and hide behind abstract imagery, enticing those interested to dig a bit deeper, piece together the scraps and paint their own picture of this avant-inclined artists from Brighton. If fact the more I think of an artist mentally and diversely cloned in different forms across the world, the more I wonder why more artists don't do the same? Make your own milesbluue by hitting the link above and checking their website which has some intriguing collaborative and research projects hinting at their artistic and intellectual inclinations.

milesbluue as a young child with short hair looks at the camera in a black-and-white photo. The setting is indoors with a couch in the background.

Although there had been audio visual work previously, "Ooze (So Long)" is the artist's first public single from way back in 2024, and it's a suitably uncompromising statement of intent. It starts off with what sounds like a slide guitar, whether sampled or played who knows, which is then quickly looped to start the sonic layer cake. Gently building percussion then proceeds to plod through the speakers beckoning the other sounds to come and join the collage. Begrudgingly at first they come - the subtle keys, strings plucked and bowed, oddball vocals put through unholy effects, and distorted samples, but by the end they're all their mingling, having a gay old time and becoming so much more than their parts - there is strength in numbers. It might sound like a lot but it works in a waywardly waltzing, cutely quirky, weirdly wobbly way, and I'm here for it.

Intriguingly the follow up single is a lush, well detailed (get those headphones on) slice of patient ambient IDM,

and his latest is a genuinely original slice of ambient neoclassical.

It looks like they can do it all and I for one am intrigued to hear where, if at all, the artist eventually hangs their hat, wanders to next, or what long form, cohesive multi-track concepts they dream up, time will tell I guess.

So what does milesbluue look like to you?