I first heard The Range (producer James Hinton from Providence, RI) through Supreme Cuts twitter and immediately fell in love with his music. Despite using similar ingredients to some of my other favorite artists--a hybrid of juke, jungle and rap rhythms, pitch-shifted vocals--he has a singular and almost instantly recognizable sound. He spins the above elements into a delicate twirling mass, adding pointillist melodic figures until tracks take on an almost impossible density. His beautiful new disk EP on Donky Pitch came out on Monday and it is truly excellent. Listen to and grab the first single "Nothing Left", which features a sped-up sample of Nate Dogg singing beautifully over skittering beats, to see what I mean.
You can stream the entirety of disk below and buy it right now. It's really excellent all the way through. Its melodies will break your heart but its beats will make you want to move.
I also heartily recommend The Range's first album, The Big Dip, which is the first thing I heard by them. The whole thing is great. "A Solitudinous Diptych" in particular is mind-blowingly gorgeous and catchy. It starts off with what sounds like Rick Astley gone juke (I mean this as a HUGE compliment) and then transitions into a breathtaking section of a sample being chopped and spun and pulled into new shapes. Listen and buy below.
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