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Rival.Music – It’s Time to get Funky: Rhythmically Popping EDM House

Posted on 5 June 2018

I don’t know what I was expecting from a track called It’s Time to get Funky, but it certainly wasn’t the storm that Rival.Music cooked up with their latest root-deep rhythmically popping mix. Wherever you have the pleasure of ingesting the track, on the dancefloor or on your commute home it will hit you with the perfect hype which may not be overly veracious but instead of gratuitous snares and overly harsh beats every note sits within the mix perfectly. The instrumental beats cooked up by the London, UK based artists took EDM back to the old school whilst at the same time keeping it as fresh as it comes with the riddle of complexity weaved into their wavy acid beats.

You can check out Rival.Music’s latest track It’s Time to get Funky out for yourselves by heading over to Spotify and drinking in the bouncing beats which won’t fail to leave you hyped. I’d keep my eye on Rival.Music if I were you, if It’s Time to get Funky is anything to go by they’ll be dominating the London Grime & EDM scene in no time.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Dan DiMonte release smooth track “Slip Away”

Posted on 24 July 2017

You can go beyond the usual labels when trying to describe Dan DiMonte’s music. Jazz, soul, pop all go some way to describe what he does but a better word is …smooth. Slip Away is smooth beyond measure, it is ultra cool and timelessly soulful but no other word in the dictionary sums it up better than smooth.

And whilst Dan DiMonte is also a nurse in the conventional sense in his non-musical moments he also seems to have found a way of tapping in to the healing properties of music, I can’t imagine a condition that wouldn’t be cured or at least eased by being subjected to these rich tones. These lazy soulful grooves and chilled jazz-funk vibes might be the break though that medicine has been looking for!

A&R Factory Present: Pat Kiloran

Posted on 25 September 2016

Pat Kiloran grew up in a white, middle-class suburb of Minneapolis, MN. He cut the yard. He played N64. And he took piano lessons like every other kid on the block. His instructor constantly told him, “You are one of my most talented students, but you never practice your pieces.” So, Pat quit.

Songwriting quickly became the means and end of Pat’s music. “I didn’t want to play other people’s songs anymore. I wanted to say what I wanted and make people feel how I felt.” Whether through crashing drums, unprecedented guitars, or convicting lyrics, Pat’s goal was to make people feel something. But not just anything. Something real.

After moving around the country for a couple years, from Los Angeles to Toronto, Pat and his newlywed wife settled in Nashville, TN. He released his first solo EP, Mess EP, in February of 2015, but over time felt that the music of that release did not quite evoke what he was hoping for. He moved on and up.

Pat’s new EP, I Know Everything That You’ve Done, is a concept record. Although short, Pat’s hope for this album, through shimmering guitars, popping drums, and stacked vocals, is to show one thing: hopelessness is in. Affairs, exploitation of women, addiction, narcissism; all these things are part of our society, and they are normal. In the deep city and in the lofty suburbs. It’s trendy. It’s in.

“These new songs are not written from a high horse. They aren’t written from a separate seat. They are written with me as the subject. I am hopeless. I am a mess. I really know everything you’ve done. Because it’s me. And I want you to see how hopeless this hopelessness is. And know that there is a Hope that dispels it.”