Track Listings (16) - Disc #1| All Artists: Koushik Title: Out My Window Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Stones Throw Original Release Date: 1/1/2008 Re-Release Date: 9/30/2008 Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop Styles: Electronica, Big Beat, Indie & Lo-Fi, North America, Pop Rap Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 659457217426, 659457217419 |
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 | Koushik Out My Window Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Koushik specializes in making that hazy, hip-hop-based downbeat sh*t that you could easily compare to contemporaries such as Four Tet (who released Koushik's first single on his Text label), RJD2, and DJ Shadow. What sets ... more » |
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Product Description Koushik specializes in making that hazy, hip-hop-based downbeat sh*t that you could easily compare to contemporaries such as Four Tet (who released Koushik's first single on his Text label), RJD2, and DJ Shadow. What sets Koushik apart from the others is a beautiful '60s psych-pop element that tends to pervade throughout. It shows itself in the spacious panned strings, acoustic guitars, and harpsichords that fall in and out of each other; and the beats have a harder regimented classic true school hip-hop sound, that Fourtet and Prefuse tend to stray away from. But what I truly love about this record is Koushik's voice. His singing is soft and mixed way down in the center of the track, sounding like the voice choirs you'd hear on one of those old Percy Faith or 101 Guitars from the late-'60s. If you're a fan of any of the aforementioned artists, you need this record. --OTHER MUSIC, NYC Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsSunshine through the haze....... Marvin Carey | Orem, Ut | 08/21/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) "After hearing 2005's "Be With" I have been anxiously engaged in waiting for a full length release form Koushik. The Canada native whose music sounds like a cross between label mate Mablid (Yesterdays New Quintet, Madvillian, Quasimoto) who admittedly inspires Koushik, The Beach Boys, and My Bloody Valentine, proves with 'Out My Window" that patience truly will achieve more than force. All warped and wrapped into one dusty package, the end result is a digital form of sunshine; the music radiating a joy and sentiment of a child-like innocence. Armed with dusty break-beats and folk guitars (as well as tons of other instrument samples, including horns and rhodes) Koushik creates an ambient funky-jazzy-pop-ish world, inhabited only by a few, if any. Where Koushik's vocal capabilities may fall short a times, the musical arrangements are more than sufficient for one's full listening attention. Hazy and alluring, "Out My Window" is one grand listening experience." Lush, mellow & innovative blend of rock, chillout and electr sergey | 09/24/2008 (4 out of 5 stars) ""Out My Window" is complex and innovative, but not in a distracting way as some more experimental electronic albums sometimes are. It is clear that a lot of time and thought has gone into this album, and I am very impressed by the maturity of the sound given that this is, as I understand, Koushik's first full-length.
The subdued nature of most of the songs is hides their complexity, and they survive repeated listens very well. Most songs work best as background music. I can't say I like all tracks, but here are the ones I kept from this album: "Be with", "Lying in the sun", "Nothing's the same", and "In a green space"." |
