Ghostly Swim

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As they’ve done in the past with indie-hop labels Stones Throw, Chocolate Industries and Definitive Jux, [Adult Swim] — purveyors of fine midnight-hour weirdo programming — have again collaborated with a renowned progressive electronic imprint. This time around it’s paragon of the (self-coined) Avant-Pop, Ghostly International, a label that’s home to such as acts as downtempo bedroom crooner Milosh and popular minimalist house producer Matthew Dear. With Ghostly Swim, the listener spans the far reaches of the noted IDM label’s roster (and beyond, with a few non-GI performers contributing), hitting every dark corner and touching upon a vast multitude of approaches to contemporary electronic dance music.

To close out this brief post I’ll share my two early favorites from the collection, as offered up first by the boom-&-glitch mastery of Cepia, and secondly by School of Seven Bells, whose velvety, modulated vocals and old-school future-shock backdrop on the track “Chain” hearken vaguely to the detached cool of 80s freestyle singers such as Debbie Deb.

Cepia: Ithaca / MP3

School of Seven Bells: Chain / MP3

Smash these here words to beam over to [adult swim]’s page for Ghostly, where you’ll be able to download all of the album’s tracks for free, either one by one or as a single zip bundle.

Now if the guys on Williams Street would only bring back Perfect Hair Forever and churn out those episodes of Venture Bros. with a bit more regularity…