Perform the Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann
More quirky 'n faded post-beat scene exotica from the Leaving Records camp, this time from New Weird Los Angeles luminaries Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann.
Longtime friends Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann initially met while they were both students at the University of Southern California. Wilkes was studying bass and Mann was studying piano; they bonded over a shared appreciation of the Soulquarians, and since then they've performed together across the world in various outfits. This bumper set of material was based on casual improvisations, but developed into more complex tracks as the duo sat opposite each other with a Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 106 in a vintage synth face-off. So the music sounds just as you'd hope - like two friends sharing shrouded in-jokes and rustling up a style that's part virtuoso music school posturing and part stoner fever dream.
When it works, it sounds somewhere between an Adult Swim sting and an alternate universe hold tone theme; 'Jakarta' for example is brilliantly faded, bumping drunken beatbox percussion off easy listening/exotica synths and chiptune squiggles. And it's the duo's relentless love of vintage neo-soul and hip-hop that saves them from falling completely down the rabbithole: a track like 'Yes It Is' skates so dangerously close to self parody with its 12-bit rhythm and weepy soap opera synth that it's almost giving "Tim and Eric", but there's a faint pang of D'Angelo that just rescues it. Way cleverer than it sounds.
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More quirky 'n faded post-beat scene exotica from the Leaving Records camp, this time from New Weird Los Angeles luminaries Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann.
Longtime friends Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann initially met while they were both students at the University of Southern California. Wilkes was studying bass and Mann was studying piano; they bonded over a shared appreciation of the Soulquarians, and since then they've performed together across the world in various outfits. This bumper set of material was based on casual improvisations, but developed into more complex tracks as the duo sat opposite each other with a Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 106 in a vintage synth face-off. So the music sounds just as you'd hope - like two friends sharing shrouded in-jokes and rustling up a style that's part virtuoso music school posturing and part stoner fever dream.
When it works, it sounds somewhere between an Adult Swim sting and an alternate universe hold tone theme; 'Jakarta' for example is brilliantly faded, bumping drunken beatbox percussion off easy listening/exotica synths and chiptune squiggles. And it's the duo's relentless love of vintage neo-soul and hip-hop that saves them from falling completely down the rabbithole: a track like 'Yes It Is' skates so dangerously close to self parody with its 12-bit rhythm and weepy soap opera synth that it's almost giving "Tim and Eric", but there's a faint pang of D'Angelo that just rescues it. Way cleverer than it sounds.
More quirky 'n faded post-beat scene exotica from the Leaving Records camp, this time from New Weird Los Angeles luminaries Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann.
Longtime friends Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann initially met while they were both students at the University of Southern California. Wilkes was studying bass and Mann was studying piano; they bonded over a shared appreciation of the Soulquarians, and since then they've performed together across the world in various outfits. This bumper set of material was based on casual improvisations, but developed into more complex tracks as the duo sat opposite each other with a Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 106 in a vintage synth face-off. So the music sounds just as you'd hope - like two friends sharing shrouded in-jokes and rustling up a style that's part virtuoso music school posturing and part stoner fever dream.
When it works, it sounds somewhere between an Adult Swim sting and an alternate universe hold tone theme; 'Jakarta' for example is brilliantly faded, bumping drunken beatbox percussion off easy listening/exotica synths and chiptune squiggles. And it's the duo's relentless love of vintage neo-soul and hip-hop that saves them from falling completely down the rabbithole: a track like 'Yes It Is' skates so dangerously close to self parody with its 12-bit rhythm and weepy soap opera synth that it's almost giving "Tim and Eric", but there's a faint pang of D'Angelo that just rescues it. Way cleverer than it sounds.
More quirky 'n faded post-beat scene exotica from the Leaving Records camp, this time from New Weird Los Angeles luminaries Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann.
Longtime friends Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann initially met while they were both students at the University of Southern California. Wilkes was studying bass and Mann was studying piano; they bonded over a shared appreciation of the Soulquarians, and since then they've performed together across the world in various outfits. This bumper set of material was based on casual improvisations, but developed into more complex tracks as the duo sat opposite each other with a Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 106 in a vintage synth face-off. So the music sounds just as you'd hope - like two friends sharing shrouded in-jokes and rustling up a style that's part virtuoso music school posturing and part stoner fever dream.
When it works, it sounds somewhere between an Adult Swim sting and an alternate universe hold tone theme; 'Jakarta' for example is brilliantly faded, bumping drunken beatbox percussion off easy listening/exotica synths and chiptune squiggles. And it's the duo's relentless love of vintage neo-soul and hip-hop that saves them from falling completely down the rabbithole: a track like 'Yes It Is' skates so dangerously close to self parody with its 12-bit rhythm and weepy soap opera synth that it's almost giving "Tim and Eric", but there's a faint pang of D'Angelo that just rescues it. Way cleverer than it sounds.
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More quirky 'n faded post-beat scene exotica from the Leaving Records camp, this time from New Weird Los Angeles luminaries Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann.
Longtime friends Sam Wilkes and Jacob Mann initially met while they were both students at the University of Southern California. Wilkes was studying bass and Mann was studying piano; they bonded over a shared appreciation of the Soulquarians, and since then they've performed together across the world in various outfits. This bumper set of material was based on casual improvisations, but developed into more complex tracks as the duo sat opposite each other with a Yamaha DX7 and Roland Juno 106 in a vintage synth face-off. So the music sounds just as you'd hope - like two friends sharing shrouded in-jokes and rustling up a style that's part virtuoso music school posturing and part stoner fever dream.
When it works, it sounds somewhere between an Adult Swim sting and an alternate universe hold tone theme; 'Jakarta' for example is brilliantly faded, bumping drunken beatbox percussion off easy listening/exotica synths and chiptune squiggles. And it's the duo's relentless love of vintage neo-soul and hip-hop that saves them from falling completely down the rabbithole: a track like 'Yes It Is' skates so dangerously close to self parody with its 12-bit rhythm and weepy soap opera synth that it's almost giving "Tim and Eric", but there's a faint pang of D'Angelo that just rescues it. Way cleverer than it sounds.