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Monday, August 27, 2012

MP3 / 206 Blue Sky Black Death's Very Wavy and Oceanic Aquatic Reveries Beat Tape

Posted by Mike Ramos on Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 1:57 PM

Behold the Destroyer

Half Seattle/half San Francisco production duo Blue Sky Black Death's popularity seems to have spiked over the last year or so — especially, as that official-as-hell blue check on their Twitter account suggests, among an Internet audience. Most of these newer fans don't realize that these guys have been making music since 2006, incidentally the first year a "tweet" was ever tweeted.

Released through blog Behold the Destroyer — who I have previously mentioned for their involvement with this immense act of #based public service — Aquatic Reveries compiles beats old and new, peaceful and menacing, some meant to zone out to and some normally rapped on by a certain local goon you may have read about before. It's not an album, but it's a well-put-together beat tape that includes tracks like "Chloroform" from their 2006 Mush release A Heap of Broken Images, "Shoot You Dead" from 2008's Babygrande Late Night Cinema, even recent Noir standout "Sleeping Children Are Still Flying" sandwiched between select instrumental versions of their Nacho Picasso collabs.

The whole thing flows ("Aquatic," har har) very well, and as Behold the Destroyer's typically great writeup suggests, is "a very chill and emotional listening experience that’ll put you in the right mindspace to get work done, fly, or communicate with various sea creatures."

Download Aquatic Reveries here.