99 Khet Tongue Wine - Music

Gainsville Florida Native Jeffry Astin Is Adept At Summoning Ethereal Ambient Soundscapes Under The Moniker Xiphiidae And As One Half Of Tricorn & Queue Building Stunning Meditative Zoned Drones With Sparkling Shrowds Of Guitar Loop Delay. However He Recently Turned His Powers Away From Aspriations To The Astral Plane And Towards A More Grounded Beat-Based Sound. As DIGITAL NATIVES Astin Pulls Out Loop After Loop From A Deep Bag Of Samples Culled From The Far Reaches Of Funk Soul Jazz Pop And Beyond. He Then Proceeds To Treat Them With Massive Doses Of Warped Pitch Delay And Distortion In Order To Strip Them Of Extraneous Affects. What Come Out Are Endless Layers Of Lysergic-Soaked Grooves Sounding Like A Lost Soundtrack To A Bizarro 70′s Exploitation Flick. Bass Lines Limp Languidly Through Clipped Percussion And Scratchy Melodies That Seem To Whift Through Tropical Jungles Of Sun-Bleach Psychedelia. The Magic Of Digital Native’s Endless Boogie Lies In The Process – The ‘songs’ Arn’t Meant To Be Heard Separately But As One Seamless Hour-Long Headtrip Sounding So Easy And Flowing As To Come Off As A Casually Improvised DJ Set Instead Of The Intricately Composed Production It Is. Cushioned By Copious Amounts Of Vinyl Rips And Fuzzy Noise Digital Natives Leave You With A Warm Afterglow As If You’d Just Heard A Forgotten Radio Transmission Extracted From The Cosmic Pop-Culture Ether An Homage To Our Imagined Collective Innocence Chopped And Screwed To Fit Our Warped Contemporary Consciousness. Astin Has Released Several Tapes At Digital Natives On Top Quality Experimental Labels Such As Space Slave Editions Rotifer And Hooker Vision As Well As His Own Delectably Curated Housecraft Records. Most Of His Tapes Are In Very Short Runs So Grab ‘em While They’re Fresh. And Apparently The Dude Just Has Moved To California So If You Dig His Vibe Why Don’t You Throw Him A Few Bones So He Can Keep Doing His Melted Tape Loop Thing. read less