I’m back with some more music from “Funky Jesus”! These Breakbot mix sets will take you back to that disco era with funky bass lines and smooth dance grooves.
Breakbot is sick with his transitions as he flows from song to song seamlessly. Just try not to bust a move while listening to these mixes, Breakbot is sure to get your body rocking.
In this audio high, you will hear a looped sample of the Risset Rhythm. What’s weird is that this loop will sound as though it is constantly speeding up, yet it never actually increases in beat.
We know: that doesn’t make any sense.
How the Risset Rhythm Works
French electronic music experimenter Jean-Claude Risset based this audio high on Shepard Tones, the looped notes that sound as if they are constantly increasing or decreasing in pitch even though they are just repeating. Risset duplicated Shepard Tones in rhythmic form. The result is a drum-based track that sounds as though it gets faster and faster when, in actuality, it is playing the same steady beat.
The following is a detailed explanation only for the most dedicated of audio heads out there. You’ve been warned…….
To get an idea of how Risset Rhythm works we’ll need to review how our brains process sound. Consider the brain as a famously impulsive file clerk who can’t stand to have information just sitting around, clogging up its synapses. As such, when information comes in, the brain quickly places it in what it considers to be the most appropriate “file” to make room for new input. When the brain gets bits of information that don’t fit exactly into a prescribed file, it makes an assumption, throwing this information into a file that it considers “close enough.” Sometimes the brain misplaces information into the wrong file. These wrong assumptions, or “file” placements, are why we mistake visual, audio, or other sensory details: why we think a mirage in the desert is a watering hole, a prick of a needle on a couch is an insect bite, the voice on the other end of the phone line is your current girlfriend not your psycho ex.
The brain can make these same incorrect assumptions with rhythms.
When we hear any repeated pattern of sounds the brain will immediately try to place the pattern into a rhythm file, even if this pattern is random and doesn’t perfectly fit. In this rhythm file the brain will attempt to put the pattern in a logical sequence of beats. Risset Rhythm takes advantage of these incorrect assumptions. It subtly merges a loop of increasing beats and sounds over and over. The brain doesn’t notice these subtle transitions between the beginning and ending of the loop, it assumes that the rhythm is constantly speeding up. As a result, we hear the Risset Rhythm loop as a continuous pattern, one that is constantly getting faster and faster.
For another one of Jean Claude Risset’s trippy audio specials take a listen to Mutations. Old school out of this world sound for all you trippy psychonauts.
Thank you – I mean, you’re welcome!
Mutations by Lillian F. Schwartz, Music by Jean-Claude Risset, 1973
Doja Cat’s playful stoner flow and silky voice is enough to seduce proven venues like the underground hip hop collective Project Blowedin Los Angeles.
So High produced by Evil Needle is Doja Cat’s psychedelic bid for her place in a growing genre of stoner RnB that highlights chill drums, neo soul synthesizers, and dirty honest lyrics.
Then we’ll roll up
A hunnit fuckin’ blunts
All up in my mouth
Now Im all up in yo…
Evil Needle – Falling Leaves (So High Instrumental)
When you put it on me
You relieve my stress
You got me so high
Takin’ deep, deep breaths
You get me so high
You get me so high
I know you ain’t a drug
But you get me so high
Wild Child’s indie-pop folk sound is a wonderful addition to a relaxing time.
Their chill vibe blends smoothly with any laid-back session, and their attention to detail and creativity in their trippy music videos is the proverbial cap on the stem.
Chill out with Wild Child… let us know what you think of their sound and visual style below.
I’ll wait around for days
this porch on which I pace
I need you mine I need me yours
You stole my breath away
You swore to me you’d stay
I’ve found something that I adore
Oh how
How we supposed to go on
Not knowing if you
bleed the way I do
I do (well I did)
are your eyes traveling elsewhere
You need to know I got the bones rolling hard against the floor
And if you left i’d break until the little pieces felt no more
Whisper the things we’d scream
now kid let’s not get mean
I need you mine I need me yours
Four walls and fancy friends
Don’t need me none of them
Because I’ve got you know and that’s enough (Well I’m glad)(Well so am I)
Let’s take good from our past
Patch holes with things that last
Let’s tear it up here you and I
Oh how
How we supposed to go on
Not knowing if you
bleed the way I do
I do (well I did)
are your eyes traveling elsewhere
You need to know I got the bones rolling hard against the floor
And if you left I’d break until the little pieces felt no more
Well these fights sure do take a lot out of me
but the secret I can tell you is I still do believe
I can’t promise that I’ll always be careful with things
But just know that I’ll expect it if you ever do leave
Sweet Marie
I love your name
Oh babe
can you turn your heart this way
Oh how
How we supposed to go on
Not knowing if you
bleed the way I do
I do (well I did)
are your bags traveling elsewhere
You need to know I got the bones rolling hard against the floor
And if you left I’d break until the little pieces felt no more
Chrome Sparks is the project of Jeremy Malvin, a musician and producer living in Brooklyn. With a background in classical percussion, Jeremy combines his love for synthesizers, beat music, and dance music into a unique blend.
Chrome Sparks – Marijuana (Live)
Marijuana sampled a 1977 track from Idris Muhammad:
Idris Muhammad – Could Heaven Ever Be Like This
Tous – The Chillwave Cat
An industrious dude was asked to babysit his girlfriend’s cat, and made the above video in the process. Shared to Reddit the clip presents a day in the life of a very alcoholic orange tabby, set to the soothing/trippy sounds of Chrome Sparks’ “Marijuana.”
The production — a mix of Washed Out-style chillwave and Flying Lotus-owing electronica — is truly the perfect fit to this visual. – SPIN Magazine
Piñata is a collaborative album by Freddie Gibbs and Madlib. Entirely produced by Madlib, the 17-track LP features Raekwon, Danny Brown, Domo Genesis, Ab-Soul, Casey Veggies, and more.
Piñata is “a gangster Blaxploitation film on wax”. I will show you my flaws, I’ll show you what I’ve done wrong and what I’ve fucked up at. I don’t regret shit, but I’ll show you the things I’m not proud of. I’m about to show niggas how to rap again. – Freddie Gibbs
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Harold’s
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib – Thuggin’
Madlib, self-aware of his style as a producer, has said that Gibbs is one of few rappers who could handle a complete project produced by him:
My stuff, it ain’t fully quantized… it has more of a human feel, so it might slow down or speed up. So you have to be the type of rapper, like MF Doom or Freddie, who can catch that, or else you’ll be sounding crazy.
Gibbs admits it was a challenge rapping over beats with chops and changes as unpredictable as the man who created them, but says with confidence “I think I did it to perfection.”
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib ft. Danny Brown – High
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib ft. Danny Brown – Shame
Freddie Gibbs – BFK
This track was produced by M-80 but it’s one of Gibbs’ best so we had to include it.
Gorillaz D Sides is a 2007 compilation album by Gorillaz. The album contains B-sides and remixes from singles and bonus tracks for the band’s second studio album Demon Days.
The Gorillaz have a psychedelic style that’s built into their animated presentation and surreal sounds. Eat a cap, smoke a bowl and let the music take control of your psychedelic adventures.
Thai musical congregation Khun Narin Phin Sing, from the Phetchabun Province, conjures up some mystical psychedelic vibes in their indescribably beautiful psychedelia.
Google translates the song title and YouTube uploader quite trippingly as “Khun Narin Racing Harp” posted by “Melting The Drug.”
The spacey guitar sound is emanating from a phin, which is a type of two to three-stringed lute popular in Thailand and Laos.
The electric funky sounds of Daft Punk send pulses through your body making you groove and get down. Daft Punk has been doing it for over a decade now, and these 17 tracks are comprised of some of their hottest jams from their career.
Maybe you feel like getting down or maybe you have robot ears that need to listen to some “Robot Rock”, either way hit play and jam out.
Daft Punk Playlist
If I’ve missed any tracks you really enjoy from Daft Punk let me know in the comments section below, and I’ll do my best to add it to the playlist.
Lovage is a studio supergroup featuring Dan the Automator (Gorillaz, Deltron 3030) producing, Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles on vocals, Kid Koala on the turntables, Brandon Arnovick (as Astacio the Nudist) on guitar, Daniels Spillson keyboards and SweetP on harpsichord & noseflute.
For their debut album Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By, Dan the Automator provides trip hop beats while the vocals mostly consist of Mike Patton and Jennifer Charles engaging in sultry and provocative dialogue.
Nevertheless, the overall tone of the album is tongue-in-cheek. The album cover is a homage to Serge Gainsbourg’s second album. The album features many references to Alfred Hitchcock with re-dubbed excerpts and the album title itself refers to an album Hitchcock appeared on in 1956 titled Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Music to Be Murdered By.
Lovage – Sex (I’m A)
This track was originally written and performed by 1980s New Wave band Berlin. The Lovage version differs significantly from the original.