Hasta La Ideas

This is the track that we featured in our first movie from Design Indaba in Cape Town. It’s by a young South African DJ and producer called Kimon, who played a set here in Cape Town as part of the Design Indaba Music Circuit.

You can watch the movie here.

Make sure you also check out the track we featured on Wednesday by the great Spoek Mathambo.

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American musician Brian Lewis Smith has made his latest track I Could See You As A Mayan available exclusively to Dezeen Music Project. Right now, this is the only place you’ll be able to hear it.

I Could See You As A Mayan is a gentle, lo-fi instrumental with delicate keyboard melodies and bass-lines that emerge from the warm crackle of tape fuzz. “It was the first time that I used a cassette tape recorder extensively,” Smith told Dezeen Music Project. “The idea was to amplify all of the little crunch and hiss sounds that come from using older gear in order to create a bed of texture that the tune can lay upon.”

This production technique provides the perfect platform for Smith, whose background is in jazz music, to demonstrate his musicianship. Melodic phrases weave intricately in and out of earshot throughout the track, with subtle variations and flourishes that only reveal themselves after repeat listens.

You can listen to another track by Brian Lewis Smith that we featured on Dezeen Music Project last year here.

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Here’s another track by American designer and musician Glen Lib, whose music is featured on our latest Dezeen Live movies. Like all Lib’s tracks, Micro Melody is fun, funky and full of quirky synth sounds.

You can listen to more tracks by Glen Lib that we’ve featured on Dezeen Music Project here, and watch the Dezeen Live talk with Benjamin Hubert here.

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Mostly Always Right is the track featured on today’s movie about Philips’ Lumiblade OLED technology, which is by a Newport-based producer called 800xL. 800xL describes the track as “ambi-sci-fi-future-funk”, and who are we to disagree?

You can listen to another track by 800xL on Dezeen Music Project here, and watch our movie about Philips’ Lumiblade technology here.

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The first three movies from our Dezeen Live series of talks filmed at 100% Design will feature tracks by east London band Strong Asian Mothers, so we thought it was time to put some more of their tracks up on Dezeen Music Project.

This track is called Position To Fly and is full of catchy vocal hooks, big beats and even bigger bass-lines. Watch out for the tasty horn section that comes in towards the end of the track too.

You can listen to more Strong Asian Mothers tracks on Dezeen Music Project here, and watch today’s Dezeen Live movie featuring Tom Hulme, design director at IDEO, here.

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