Kan Wakan - Miles Away

Gueorgui Linev is a talented Bulgarian producer, film composer, and songwriter. Based now in LA, he has worked with artists like Moses Sumney, Thundercat, and Tosin Abasi. When he is not producing for others, he releases his own music as Kan Wakan. Last year he unveiled Phantasmagoria, Vol. 1, part one of an ambitious triple LP. The album displayed an ability to fuse electronic and organic elements. Massive Attack, RJD2, Bonobo - you hear echoes of all of them. But, listening to it again, I am reminded of just how sprawling it is. There are gentle minimialist piano interludes, lengthy horn solos, harmonicas, bluesy guitar riffs, orchestral flourishes (provided by the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra). It’s just…very good.

Now we have a new single and an accompanying video. The song has a glitchy, jazzy, garage thing going on. In the video, friends are hanging out, drinking and smoking, and then their faces start to fold, to fuse together. Oh, and their irises jump around. Trippy, man.

Wax Tailor

If you have been alive for the last 8 years and you are a fan of Electronica, then there is a good chance that you have already heard of the french producer that goes under the moniker "Wax Tailor". His music is largely sample based, sampling audio from antiquated films and records and fusing it with modern sounding Trip-Hop/ Hip-Hop backings. Add some completely unexpected infusions from any musical genre you can think of, and there you have Wax Tailor. For me, RJD2 is the artist most closely reminiscent of Wax Tailor. If RJD2's music had ADHD, the result would probably be something very similar to Wax Tailor's music. This song leaves me very confused, slightly scared, but mostly it leaves me with that funky bassline stuck in my head all day! If you want to have nightmares tonight go ahead and watch the music video that goes along with this track. Seriously.