Friday Free For All: Fade to Mind and Thrupence
Fade To Mind Edits The Fade To Mind crew, whose members hail mostly from Los Angeles, have been responsible for some of the most forward-thinking music of the past few…
By Travis Holcombe • • 1 min readFade To Mind Edits
The Fade To Mind crew, whose members hail mostly from Los Angeles, have been responsible for some of the most forward-thinking music of the past few years.
From Kingdom’s Vertical XL EP to Kelela’s Cut 4 Me mixtape to Nguzunguzu’s Skycell release, Fade To Mind has consistently demonstrated a knack for making cutting edge music that always defies traditional pigeonholing.
This past week Fade To Mind took over Dazed Digital and dropped a gang of previously unreleased edits.
My favorite track of the bunch is a new edit of Kelela, who is no stranger to listeners of evening music programming on KCRW.
Her track “Bankhead” is a modern classic and hasn’t left my rotation since it first appeared last May.
Now, we get a brand new edit of her track “Enemy” by MA Nguzu.
In addition to this edit, you can head over to Dazed Digital and stream/download four other tracks. Prince Will’s Miley Cyrus rework and Kingdom’s heavy celestial take on Gangsta Boo are also well worth picking up.
Thrupence – “Don’t You Mind”
23-year-old Jack Vanzet is something of a jack-of-all-trades.
He’s not only supremely talented visual artist (you can check out a bunch of his pieces on his Tumblr), but he’s also quietly making a name for himself with his music production skills under the name Thrupence.
I first got turned onto Vanzet’s work as Thrupence when a friend recommended the Voyages EP to me a couple years ago. It was really pretty downtempo album and a perfect end of night soundtrack.
Thrupence is gearing up to put out a limited edition release of his new album, Lessons (Originals Mixtape 4), and is offering up a free download of the first single, “Don’t You Mind“.
Lessons (Originals Mixtape 4) by Thrupence
With it’s Son House vocal sample (you can check out the killer sample source here), it’s hard not to draw a connection between “Don’t You Mind” and Moby’s use of similar Delta blues samples on Play, but that’s not a bad thing.
Download this track for free and pre-order the album here.