About Tierra Sessions:
Every week, the staff at Tierra Studios will compile a mixtape for your jamming pleasure. You may listen to the mix on the streaming player below. If you like the mix, you may download it as a high-res 320 kbps file – the tracks will be separated. Also, we have included buy links for you to purchase the songs yourself, un-mixed.
Enjoy, and all feedback is welcome.
Tierra Studios Staff
About the mix:
I approached this mix like no other…typically I will make a mixtape for people to bump in their car, or as a promo tool to give a sample of what you can expect from me as a DJ at a club. Most people in the electronic music scene have known me to be a house DJ only. But, in the past 1.5 years I have opened myself up to many different genres, including top 40, hip-hop, indy-dance, and dubstep. I used to be a big music snob – not anymore!
In this mixtape, I intended to cross several genres of electronic music and hip-hop, without making the flow seem weird. I wasn’t focused on what would make the dancefloor move, or what the music would create for someone driving in their car. This time, I imagined people listening to the mixtape at work, on the computer. While reviewing the mixtape for quality of flow late nite last week, I found myself dancing uncontrollably, thinking beautiful thoughts. Wow, how I love music.
If you know house music, you’ll recognize some heavy hitting classics from the 90′s. This was the golden era of house…at least for now.
1. Honey Claws – Orange Kitten Stamp Buy Now
2. Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker Dub) Buy Now
3. Joakim – Come Into My Kitchen (Basement Dub) Buy Now
4. POSR – Cocaine Nose Job Buy Now
5. Rick Ross – Hustlin’ (xxxchange remix) Unreleased
6. Bitter:Sweet – Heaven (Buscemi’s Afroclub Remix) Buy Now
7. Alan Braxe & Fred Falke – Intro Buy Now
8. Disco Dub Plate – Uptown (Spettro Edit) – Vinyl Only – Spettro’s Unreleased Edit
9. Ferry Ultra feat. Roy Ayers – Dangerous – Dangerapella Buy Now
10.Moonstarr – Greed (Moonstarr Remix) Buy Now
11.Positive Flow – Dance of the Soul (Jay Tripwire Techvox Remix) Buy Now
12.Kerri Chandler – Yellow Buy Now
13.Green Velvet – Answering Machine (Mark Grant’s Main Pass) Buy Now (Vinyl Only!)
14.Jedi Knights – May the Funk Be With You Buy Now (Vinyl Only!)
15.Modeselektor – Happy Birthday Buy Now
In a book of photos put together after the band’s debut record was finished, Honey Claws member Traey Hatch wrote a hyper-excited, love-filled intro saying, “Ninjas. Pimps. Crash Cymbals. Couch trips. Bus rides. A hot studio. Yelling, screaming, laughing. Too much beer, too little sleep. Overtime, overworked, overcoming adversity. Racquetball, running and Honey, claws that is. Hyena Scowl, yeah clowns, that’s right. Fuck it, we had fun and made some killer music!”
And therein lies the essence of the Austin-based band’s self-titled debut record. Its 14 tracks are based on that brand of playful, creative, wild-eyed, stream-of-consciousness energy. Multi-instrumentalists every one, the four-piece group moves through 49 minutes of innovative experimental hip-hop psychedelia that’s equal parts Panda Bear as it is Madlib.
The record is, at its very heart, an electronic animal, and when its heart beats you feel the floor shaking from sixty-six blocks away. Sexed-up beats pulse thick with electro bass while a whole pile of robotic trippiness blankets the sound in a way that recalls likeminded souls Daft Punk, Odelay-era Beck, and Kraftwerk. Still, the sound is all their own. Without Honey Claws there would be no Honey Claws music. Without Honey Claws music there would be no Honey Claws. It is a unique and new creature unto itself. American musical evolution incarnate.
According to a 3hive.com write-up, “Honey Claws is just the sort of thing I’d hope to run into at 1 am, my feet weary from the walking, my head hurting from all the rocking, but these grooves would buoy me up for another couple hours.”
Put on Honey Claws’ debut and consider yourself buoyed. Band-mates Thomas Sahs, Ben Wah, and Traey Hatch lay down the tapestry of summer love trip-out jam funk while Jon Von Letscher drops beats alongside his half-lovelorn/half-crunked-up rhymes with all the power of the Oxford English Dictionary dosed up on E.
Here’s your invitation to the sickest party of the summer.
Honey Claws – Healer EP
Four track CD
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Lightning Kill Eye by Honey Claws (Healer EP)
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