We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Dark Side of the Mental

by Nyctophiliac

supported by
xussia
xussia thumbnail
xussia Delicious tones, themes and devilish beats. This is an incredible album that deep dives into trip, smashes some industrial beats and brings you back into an immersive world of tonal elegance. Stunning! No other word for it! Favorite track: My Least Favorite Life.
Dustfan
Dustfan thumbnail
Dustfan Pretty dope trip-hop album. Most of it sounds kind of like Portishead without vocals but then the title track reminds me of Cypress Hill and Killaz incorporates some Industrial flavor. There's also a tripped out version of Lera Lynn's My Least Favorite Life from True Detective. Favorite track: Pripyat's Whispering Curse.
more...
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      €5 EUR  or more

     

1.
2.
3.
Metamanoir 03:42
4.
5.
The Chase 04:10
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
Nycto's View 02:37
12.
IS-2 04:08
13.
Post-War 06:16
14.
15.
16.
Isolation 07:06

about

"The album is full of different sounds, samples, slow vibrating bass lines, laid back jazz sax, hip-hop breakbeats and loops. All fused into one seamless, seductive sound.." bit.ly/2syfnrC

Top dark jazz albums of 2016 according to the russian Dark Jazz community on VK. bit.ly/2EnDlrX

Top macedonian albums of 2016 according to the independent radio station Kanal 103. bit.ly/36F2OcK

"It’s 3:00am and you’re sitting in a smoky jazz club, nursing a good scotch. Perhaps it’s your lack of sleep or maybe too much to drink, but suddenly things around you start to change and twist. The air is getting thicker, the music slower and darker. Suddenly, your drink is pouring like syrup, and you feel as though you’re sinking into the floor. The smoke has become a thick, gray fog and you’re lost in the midst of it, the band echoing somewhere off in the distance. It’s not frightening, exactly—just softly disorienting and vaguely disturbing. You might be passing out, or you may have accidentally fallen asleep while listening to Nyctophiliac.

This Macedonian beatsmith’s debut LP, Dark Side of the Mental, serves up seventy minutes of top-quality dark hop: trip-hop’s grossly overlooked bleak and dusky twin. This self-described “dark, blunted jazz” incorporates thick, beefy bass lines with chunky grooves, sinister samples, and other subtle flourishes. With the exception of the clamorous amen breaks of “Murderous Intent,” all the tracks here are narcotically slow, dragging out their beats while dark instrumentals circle about in the echoing space, with an occasional Zorn-like saxophone squeal leaping out from the booming shadows, sonic boogieman-style.

And that’s one of the fascinating things here. A lot of dark hop outings are claustrophobia-inducing, compressed affairs, but this material is rife with dub-like qualities. Everything is drenched in reverb, so every bass bump and snare hit bounces off into the darkness. It’s certainly spectral and gloomy, but never oppressive or lugubrious. “Noir” describes it to a T, for it’s as if the whole thing is being passed through a sepia filter; imagine a chunkier, more “boom bap” version of Bohren & Der Club of Gore’s Black Earth and you’re starting to get the picture. I’m also vaguely reminded of Trevor Jones’s excellent Angel Heart soundtrack and, honestly, this record would not be out-of-place serving as the score for a dark film involving Faustian deals and stygian deeds. It’s creepy, head-noddy, and brilliantly sinister." - Abstract, multi-genre DJ based in New York www.facebook.com/abstractnyc

credits

released October 17, 2016

Produced, arranged and mixed by Nyctophiliac.
Mastered by VPD.
Track 16 original track from Lera Lynn - My Least Favorite Life.

Cover Artwork by Filip Peovski
Edited by Nyctophiliac

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Nyctophiliac Skopje, Macedonia

Beatsmith known for noirish trip-hop & blunted beats that incorporates thick, beefy bass lines with chunky grooves, various samples, breakbeats, loops and other subtle flourishes. Laid back sax, a wailing trumpet, a furiously scratched record, a storm of ambient whooshes and then there's that boom bap again. ... more

contact / help

Contact Nyctophiliac

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

Nyctophiliac recommends:

If you like Nyctophiliac, you may also like: