Hudson Mohawke – Butter

Hudson Mohawke is a highly touted hip-hop-oriented IDM producer/DJ from Glasgow, Scotland, affiliated with the LuckyMe collective.

Released at the end of October on Warp Records, “Butter” the debut album from Mohawke (real name: Ross Birchard) has been labelled by some in the music industry as “psychedelic R&B/ Hip hop”.

The BBC Music site (still in beta at present) wrote….

….he’s one of the key exponents in a new sound variously called ‘wonky’ or ‘aquacrunk’ that draws on dubstep, US hip hop and RnB, and experimental electronica, binding the fusion together with slamming, slightly out-of-phase beats and synthesisers that wobble woozily, like they’ve warped after being left out in the sun.

Even the above descriptions doesn’t cover everything that’s going on in this album!! Whatever it’s called though, i like it.

“Joy Fantastic” features Olivier Daysoul on vocal duties (who I think sounds very much like Andre 3000 on this track!!!).

This one reminds me of some of New Zealand rapper Scribe‘s music

And this one reminds me of music from Nintendo‘s excellent game F-Zero for some reason!!!