5 Day Forecast: W1V1

Monday ∆ fwdslxsh - Oceans (ft. starRo)

This London producer, affiliated with Last Night In Paris puts out some absolutely chill tracks. Tracks that have you drifting off to other dimensions upon your first listen. The song Oceans grasps the day one spot on the Forecast for it's pure chill vibes. A perfect song to curl up in bed and close your eyes to catch up on that sleep you lost the night before from looking at this blog. 

The female vocal sample cooly sings "not trying to be rude, baby" which the beautiful amount of reverb carries and sends you off into space. The chord synths reminiscent of some euro lounge vibes, layered with some extremely ambient piano sounds are spectacularly arranged and carry the track along. But, for some strange reason this song reminds me of a SweetValley type tune such as Bros Beyond or Stone. Most likely it's the dreamy abstract mood they create. The drum beat is smoother than butter and the wood blocks intermixed with the running hi-hats are reminiscent of something Giraffage or XXYYXX would produce.

Those hip-hopesque drum beats seem to be growing in popularity in modern ambient/chillwave/chillout music now a days. But, I'm not complaining because it really does enhance the groove and entices that chilling feel. If you listen to other songs by fwdslxsh the beats hold true to each other. Mostly every song consists of this engulfing kick drum, followed by some 808 style claps or snares with a reasonable amount of reverb. Not only do the drums remain consistent, but the heavy amount of *side-chaining as well. However, their consistency is commendable because it forms a recognizable sound for this producer.

Overall, the song is so elegantly and beautifully produced which has me bobbing my head until the end. The song fades out with some light guitar and children talking. It's hard to understand exactly what they are saying because most of it is shouts and gibberish, but most likely they are talking about the chill vibes of fwdslxsh - Oceans.

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Definition:
*side-chaining [to put it in its most understandable form.] = a style of compression that ducks (reduces volume) of one instrument or sound based on another instrument or sound. A common form of this would be the kick drum ducking the sound of a synth to get a pumping effect.