MP3: Falcons – ‘Nigeria’
Posted In Electronic,New Music by Toasty
TightMike & KayleoStock, make up the Vancouver/ Oakland duo that spend most of their time making what they like to call “forward thinking beat music” and “original dancefloor melting rhythms”. Continuing with that mantra, they start off 2012 on a good note with their new single ‘Nigeria’ which includes a remix from Bobby Tank.
Being from Nigeria myself, there is less of the more familiar afrobeats sounds or tribal drums at work here, but rather the Falcons opt for a gritty bass line, dark yet sultry in nature. Laced with a soothful R’n'B vocal and a blend of roaring glitches, this track is full of flavour.
Bobby switches it up slightly, giving us Nigerian heat. Lightening the bass, adding delicate warming, arp synths too. Definitely enjoying both sides. Check it out below.
[...] Last time Falcons gave us original R’n'Bass, this time the duo gear up for some summer sunshine by offering a free soundtrack of trilled out, amplified subbed, hard hitting heat. Finely selected, the duo go against the grain, to include obscure remixes of some classic tunes from Ludacris, Ciara and Jagged Edge. As well as throwing in the mix, a modern edge made up of xxxy, Machinedrum and their own banger – Nigeria. [...]