Tuesday
Nov082011
D.V.S* (Derek VanScoten) - Coming Up for Air Vol. 2
Music
The naming of D.V.S*’s dual album, Coming Up for Air: Vol. 1 (DUSK) and Vol. 2 (DAWN) (Self-Released on Bandcamp, 2011), demonstrates the duality inherent to Derek’s musical proclivities. On one side is DUSK; the coming of night, new opportunities to unchain the soul, fresh moments to dance the day to sleep. The other side is DAWN; the sun’s return—another celestial launch of earthly life. With DUSK, he exhibits his hyphy side, with glitched-out wobbles riding hip-hop crests. With DAWN, a lighter sensibility is showcased, one that any fan of downtempo, airy beats would call love at first sight. D.V.S* has used the term “skygaze” (see: opposite of shoegazing) to describe this latter experience, and aptly so, as listening to DAWN conjures images of lying in a field staring at clouds or constellations drifting along their path in our sky. Uniting these disparate realms is D.V.S*, a beatsmith with one hand on a guitar and the other on a MIDI controller. With Coming Up for Air, he creates a nexus for the analog and digital fronts charging at the contemporary music scene, the consummate working example of future music.
D.V.S* has released Volume 2 of his dual album, Coming Up for Air (Volume 1 was released earlier this year). Pick it up here for $7 (or stream it free below). D.V.S* has a few shows coming up in Colorado in a week or so with Emancipator, if you are in the area do not miss this show.
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