Blawan - Dismantled Into Juice

Upcoming 5 track EP 

Always love new Blawan, these post-technos excursions of late are never not interesting.  Dude should drop another full length!!

his last ep was great. wonder how these vocal tracks will go down…

  On 4/19/2023 at 4:20 PM, species8472 said:

his last ep was great. wonder how these vocal tracks will go down…

Yes, I hope for mangled, pitched down vocals. First track is really nice IMO

Don’t mind Blawan, got some killer tracks. Love the title ‘Dismantled Into Juice’ 

Does Blawan share an Alex Smoke vibe to anyone? I get his tracks are more techy, rounded sound design, and not minimal *house* but I cannot help but hear similarity especially with the slurry vocals and some bass lines and melodies. I dig it, I was a huge Alex Smoke fan he always had solid mid track payoff.

Anyway this sounds dope.

  On 4/21/2023 at 4:38 AM, august said:

Does Blawan share an Alex Smoke vibe to anyone? I get his tracks are more techy, rounded sound design, and not minimal *house* but I cannot help but hear similarity especially with the slurry vocals and some bass lines and melodies. I dig it, I was a huge Alex Smoke fan he always had solid mid track payoff.

Anyway this sounds dope.

also big alex smoke fan. have not listened in a while! thanks for the reminder. 

What’s a good Alex smoke starting point?

  On 4/21/2023 at 7:28 AM, eye said:

What’s a good Alex smoke starting point?

his album paradolia was always the one for me

  On 4/21/2023 at 7:28 AM, eye said:

What’s a good Alex smoke starting point?

I second the Paradolia & Incommunicado LPs.

Also his earlier EPs like Blingkered or ones on Vakant like Ring.Click.Tink or Shminimal ep. These are more tools and techno whereas the LPs are artist LPs

I'll admit there's a heavy minimal and 2000's sound with some snares that may not age well but in his library there's really cool bouncy basslines and spacey percolating melodies and that dumb tuned down singing voice I just dig.

These Blawan track got me back into Alex Smoke, there's just something about it. Not mimicking or even genre but the same vein. Way more shuffling less grid like.

https://blawan.bandcamp.com/track/no-rabbit-no-life

https://blawan.bandcamp.com/track/close-the-cycle

Cheers!

  On 4/22/2023 at 5:35 AM, august said:

I second the Paradolia & Incommunicado LPs.

Also his earlier EPs like Blingkered or ones on Vakant like Ring.Click.Tink or Shminimal ep. These are more tools and techno whereas the LPs are artist LPs

https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/simple-things-ep

https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/ring-click-tink-ep

https://vakant.bandcamp.com/album/shminimal-ep

I'll admit there's a heavy minimal and 2000's sound with some snares that may not age well but in his library there's really cool bouncy basslines and spacey percolating melodies and that dumb tuned down singing voice I just dig.

 

These Blawan track got me back into Alex Smoke, there's just something about it. Not mimicking or even genre but the same vein. Way more shuffling less grid like.

https://blawan.bandcamp.com/track/no-rabbit-no-life

https://blawan.bandcamp.com/track/close-the-cycle

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Haven't played Alex Smoke in years, but thanks for the reminder.  I also love Paradolia.

One of my favorite tracks, ever:

Holy shit this is something special 

Happy to have stumbled across this thread. Digging in as on initial listen this is something up my alley; any recommendations or fav tracks etc lmk if you would be so kind. 

Killer stuff.

  On 5/17/2023 at 4:24 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

Happy to have stumbled across this thread. Digging in as on initial listen this is something up my alley; any recommendations or fav tracks etc lmk if you would be so kind. 

Yup check out the Woke Up Right Handed EP. The last track is my favourite.

  On 5/17/2023 at 4:24 AM, Hugh Mughnus said:

Happy to have stumbled across this thread. Digging in as on initial listen this is something up my alley; any recommendations or fav tracks etc lmk if you would be so kind. 

New stuff is great but I'm more of a fan of his older works. He got quite a bit of recognition back in the day. My favorite tracks would be: getting me down, medulla rheese, why they hide they bodies under my garage, potchla vee and both tracks of the hessle audio EP. It's more Garage-y stuff compared to the techno leaning EP's/ album he puts out now.

  On 5/17/2023 at 4:38 PM, beerwolf said:

Yup check out the Woke Up Right Handed EP. The last track is my favourite.

  On 5/17/2023 at 4:59 PM, thumbass said:

New stuff is great but I'm more of a fan of his older works. He got quite a bit of recognition back in the day. My favorite tracks would be: getting me down, medulla rheese, why they hide they bodies under my garage, potchla vee and both tracks of the hessle audio EP. It's more Garage-y stuff compared to the techno leaning EP's/ album he puts out now.

ty both of you!

lads this fucking bangs

Yeh this slap s.

Time to school!

It's almost absurdly good, it makes me laugh at how good it is. Honestly feel like Blawan is in a field of one right now.

I felt like Woke Up Right Handed was next level but this seems like a further progression.

Going to have to check out Alex Smoke now, cheers.

I like the new EP but I do think Woke Up Right Handed is better in its execution. Been big into his Peaches EP too lately.

mindblowing stuff