Weekly mp3 #97: 48/4 - Hlibt

Hopefully when this post gets published you can still listen to this track on Hlibt's Myspace, because it's only available as a download as a zipped up album, New Weird Australia Vol 3.

A nice melody on what sounds like a harp or acoustic guitar with grainy clouds of sound ascending skyward around it. Glicky (Yeah, "glicky" muddyfunster!) sparse beats take it into that "I've obviously heard dubstep, but is this still dubstep?" territory. None of that leaden bass that bores the shit out of me - in fact the vibe is kind of light. Reversed and obscured vocals loop around and come and go. Restrained. Layers of near and far stuff add up to good doses of niceness. Yeah, I said it.

48/4 (pronounced "forty-eight four") is Hamish Dixon from Sydney. You've got his myspace link at the top of this entry, according to his artist page on the New Weird Australia site he studies electroacoustic / acousmatic composition.

I played this on the Australia-themed Malty Media show last December.