MAL020: Minnesota – Ancient Machines



TRACKLISTING

1. Breathe
2. Hold Up - http://soundcloud.com/mallabelmusic/hold-up-preview
3. Living Together

FULL RELEASE PREVIEW

http://mallabelmusic.com/minnesota

DESCRIPTION

If you have followed West Coast bass music culture in the last year, you are no stranger to the name Minnesota. Hailing from Santa Cruz, this young producer is freaking the minds of the multitude weekend after weekend, his sets brimming over with some seriously unparalleled original sound. MalLabel Music is proud to get a chunk of that wondrous stuff to package into a lovely new EP entitled Ancient Machines.

Minnesota has a talent for equally matching beauty and booty, twisting bold synth lines with gorgeous pads and floor shaking bass. With a hint of purple, the Ancient Machines EP undulates with headiness but keeps it dance floor to the core.

The EP opener, “Breathe,” is a beautiful piece of West Coast bass treasure. Flowing from an atmospheric opening to a thunderous anthemic crescendo, this track is laced through and through with Minnesota’s signature sound. The follow up track, “Living Together,” is another gem. A flowing arpeggio line tiptoes into a blastoff of bass that leaves the listener hanging in dank clouds of rhythm, never wanting to come back down. The closing track “Hold Up” completes the opus rocking a moody 180 BPM, rich FM synth chords, and hand claps to start bodies in motion and keep them rocking.

MalLabel Music is extremely proud to present the Ancient Machines EP and to support Minnesota in his meteoric rise to becoming a household name in the bass music industry. Grab your copy of Ancient Machines and prepare to get a taste of some truly extraordinary beats.

(Artwork by Ben Keyser.)

SUPPORT FOR ANICENT MACHINES

Afromonk – “One of the best releases if not the best from MalLabel! Incredible work from Chrissssssy!”

AMINA – ‘Reminds me of the old rave days.”

Frim – “Big up Minnesota i'm feelin this shit! Hold up is the best.”

Knight Riderz – “Minnesota is on it.”

John Somejerk - " Awesome vibes coming form Minnesota on this one. Breath is a big, heavy but mature dubstep anthem while Hold Up picks up the pace in a way that only a West Coast producer can. The chilled out Living Together closes out the synth heavy release. Definitely one of my favorites from Mal Label Music."

Michael Harms – “Living Together is a good solid one.Go Mal Go!”

Mochipet - "Great Really uplifiting loved his remix for me Ben does amazing art as well! "

Psymbionic – “Very cool release, rinsed it this past weekend.”

Rakoon - "Yeas!! love the intro on Breathe."

Total Recall - "Breathe- I respect the beautiful sounds used in this tune! Hold Up - Love the bay area vibes to this one! Purple synths! YAY!! Such good organic sounds! Very good production skills! Living Together- Really emotional tune as are all three of them. Old school rave vibes! Don't understand how a young producer would even know these feelings! F'in awesome! Overall this EP is sick and reminds me of warm hardware synths! Thanks for the listen! Love the artwork and title of the EP, fits perfectly! Hard to pick a favorite. They are all so solid."

Ritual Dubstep – “Stellar EP.. great job from both parties..”

Sam Supa - "Im fucking surprised by this EP good job!!"

Skulltrane – “<3.”

Subsynthesis – “This album is by far my favorite Minnesota to date. You really show of the sexy side, I thought Breathe was quite beautiful.”

SPECTRE - "Dope!"

Squeegie – “Been following Minnesota for a minute, and this is by far his most "mature" release. technically vey proficient and quite soulful. big fan here, love from Squeegie.”

Udachi - "Beautiful."

US Dubstep – “Minnesota always amazes me.”