Pure Trash:Dosh

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 * 1) Song 1
 * 2) Song 2

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Label: Anticon

Genre: emotional instrumentals

Rating: 8.6 of 10

Anticon’s very busy noise-maker, Dosh, drops his 3 album (second full length) in the past two years. Martin Dosh creates an instrumental blend of electronica, hip-hop, jazz and rock. The result is 12 innovative songs that contain layers upon layers of musical texture. His usual template consists of light piano melodies on top of various atmospheric sounds and noises on top of dirty back beats. Every song has a very contemplative and optimistic mood to it, yet will still make your head nod to the beat. With the help of a few of his friends on the production side, including fellow Anticon labelmates Odd Nosdam, Jel and Why? along with Andrew Broder (Fog), Mike Lewis (Fog, Happy Apple) and Bryan Olsen (Lateduster), Pure Trash, more a compilation of Dosh’s whittled down ideas and his guests’ individual inputs, is a solid and original release. The only other artist I find it similar to his Four Tet; Dosh also makes emotional and innovative instrumentals, but is more hip-hop influenced than Four Tet (who is more folk influenced). This is a definite listen for fans of Four Tet, Anticon or compelling instrumentals.