Beat Meet: More Mooncircle Love

Seriously, if Project: Mooncircle had a face, i'd make sweet, sweet love to it. Keeping to their own Madlib-ian pace, they just hit us up with another two creeper joints to keep asses bumping and heads nodding.

First up is a killer comp piece, Finest Ego Japanese Beatmaker Compilation. If you have taken the time to check out any Japanese beat tracks, you know they have a knack for the abstract, stereotypically speaking. Point being, as a generalized rule of thumb, "they" tend to put together jamming tracks with unsuspected breaks and an ear for incorporating the off-kilter. Normally, if someone was to ask me a good starting point for breaking into the sub-genre, i'd have pointed to the Samurai Champloo series (the music, not the anime; though you can't go wrong with the anime, either). Now i'd be equally, if not more so, comfortable recommending this joint. The CD is up for free, but only for a couple more days, so move your ass and pick this one up while the price is right, kids.

mp3: Samurai Assassin (BudaMonk from Finest Ego Japanese Beatmaker Compilation)

mp3: Spotless (a.z. from Finest Ego Japanese Beatmaker Compilation)

Closer in texture to label mate Robot Koch as far as my ears are concerned, P:M is getting ready to drop the solo debut of Russian cum Ukranian up and comer Pavel Dovgal. Pavel floats on a genteel cloud of softly glitchy clank. Occasional vocal loops add a layer of depth and shading to an already chilled out ride. Keep an eye and an ear out for this sumbitch, children.

mp3: Document (Pavel Dovgal from Cassiopeia)