Various Artists - Ghostly Swim

Artist: Various
Album: Ghostly Swim
Release: 2008
Label: Ghostly International

Tracklist:

1. Michna - Triple Chrome Dipped
2. Dabrye - Temper
3. The Chap - Carlos Wendy Walter Stanley
4. Dark Party - Active
5. Tycho - Cascade [Live]
6. JDSY - All Shapes
7. Deastro - Light Powered
8. Matthew Dear - R+S
9. FLYamSAM - The Offbeat
10. Cepia - Ithaca
11. Aeroc - Idiom
12. The Reflecting Skin - Traffickers
13. School Of Seven Balls - Chain
14. Ben Benajmin - Squirmy Sign Language
15. Kill Memory Crash - Hit + Run
16. Osborne - Wait A Minute
17. Milosh - Then It Happened
18. 10:32 - Little Blue
19. Mux Mool - Night Court

Sorry I’ve been gone for a while. I’ve been lost getting music, washing and destroying my ipod, and deleting horrible metalcore from my external that my friend had given me. Btw, metal Adam has metal for me? Actually, more like quirky twee pop Adam has metal, which doesn’t make sense. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of instrumental hip-hop, trip-hop, chillout, and ninja tune. This is all the cause of my roommate and good Ethiopian friend Biruk, who had introduced me to Bonobo’s Black Sands (a perfect album and you all should check it out). This album had led me to so much more good electronic. It’s a shame though, since most of the stuff that I found are new releases and can’t be reviewed/shared for fear of legal retribution. I apologize, but I will post some awesome Youtube videos at the end of this review to preview some of the stuff I’ve found. I will look into Bonobo’s earlier albums and see what’s good.

Anyway, I remember watching Adult Swim on Cartoon Network all the time in high school. They had some really cool shows like Harvey Birdman, Venture Bros, ATHF and Sea Lab 2021. I remember back in the day they had these breaks in between commercials and the shows. They almost acted like a weird and entertaining “public announcements” that let you know when the commercials were over. Other than having a very funny and random message, they had the best music playing behind in the background. They had mostly instrumental hip-hop and obscure-goofy-dancey electronic. Ghostly Swim is a compilation of some of the music showcased during their programming and I feel that it’s a good representation of the good interlude-esque music that I enjoyed so much back in the day. Some good shit here, guys. They have some more compilations on their website and you guys can download them for free! Tell me what you think.

Lone – “Interviews at Honolulu” (Really cool video from The Fall (Tarsem Singh 2006))
Lukid – “Western Swing”
Bonobo – “Kong”

Download Here

Dancing with you always,
Johnny B