Sniffing out the best new music
Over the last few days I've been busy, but looking back, I don't actually know what I've actually achieved. I suppose it's been a typically 2020 styled few days - filling the day up with lots of menial tasks just to pass the time. This lack of progress leads me straight back into another edition... Continue Reading →
Noé Solange is one of London's rising electronica artists. On November 20 this year, she released her debut EP titled Bound - a collection of melancholic, emotive and woozy downtempo tracks that are a perfect accompaniment for those deep reflective moments. Noé was due to perform at our showcase gig at The Finsbury last May,... Continue Reading →
I've done so many of these now that I've pretty much run out of material to write about in these introduction paragraphs. I spent today on zoom with family, listening to a new release from Dutch producer Murakumo and right now, I'm enjoying a delicious reduced price prawn salad from the petrol station up the... Continue Reading →
Hope you are all having a pleasant Sunday wherever you may be in the world. I've had a very relaxing weekend, after taking yesterday off completely, the Lockdown Mixtape picks up where we left off. Here are another five tracks that stood out in the sea of submissions. Welcome to episode ten. Ishi Vu /... Continue Reading →
It's Friday, release day in the robotic, groundhog day life of the Spotify circus. The perk of a Friday is, of course, the wealth of new releases for me to babble about. Been holding onto a few of these tracks for a couple of weeks and I'm glad to be able to share them this... Continue Reading →
I was a bit late drafting up today's mixtape - a mixture of excercise and cooking has pushed me off schedule today. A couple of nights ago, I enlisted the help of a couple of facebook music groups, asking them for submissions - I received over six hundred responses. Hopefully I'll be able to unearth... Continue Reading →
A full week has passed in Lockdown, a full week of Lockdown Mixtape's have been published - What day is it? Who am I? What time is it?...... Welcome to episode seven of The Sound Sniffer's Lockdown Mixtape. Samuel Nicholson / William In September, I scuttled into the city - I hadn't been on a... Continue Reading →
Felix Dreiser is a music producer based in Cologne, Germany. Early releases suggest he has a bright future ahead of him, none more so than his most recent track ‘Retrograde’. Dreiser’s sound is carefully sculpted and arranged, every note inserted with the greatest duty of care. Soft, ambient textures weave in and out which give... Continue Reading →
After an extended break away from the blogging side of things, The Sound Sniffer returns with a list of some of the songs that have stood out over the last couple of months. The submissions inbox raced past ten thousand submissions in September and although I haven't been sharing much recently, plenty of stuff is... Continue Reading →
Well........? Respected producer Matthew Dear has just created a bold and experimental piece of music titled New Breed. On the face, it sounds like a normal, electronic pop track - but what you may not have realized is that Dear composed it all using the oscillating sounds of the new Ford Mustang. We are really... Continue Reading →
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