Tracks of the Week : Máistrí, FRKTL, En and Oceania

Every week, we scan the invisible air waves of the intarwebs to find that one tune that will change the day… Check out our weekly picks, with full tracks streaming from SoundCloud. You must go directly to our main site to hear each selection…

Máistrí - Ode To Ego
This week's selection magically ties into our Sound Postcards project. At the beginning of October, I opened this project up for your submissions via Headphone Commute's Sound Postcard Group and have received numerous fantastic entries! Among them was a track by Máistrí that totally took me by surprise. Here was a modern classical miniature composition that captured my favorite elements of cinematic and ambient music flawlessly! I am obliged to share: listen to the entire track...

FRKTL - Spöken
This week we feature a track by one of our old time friends and contributors, Sarah Badr. Sarah has previously written a review of Telefon Tel Aviv's Immolate Yourself.  I knew that Sarah was a designer, artist, and a writer... but I had no idea that she was also a musician, composing pieces under the moniker FRKTL. So you can imagine my surprise when I listened to her latest contribution on Sound Cloud, titled Spöken, and even bigger excitement when I totally fell in love with the track!!! Check out FRKTL!

En - The Absent Coast
In the spirit of featuring snippets from upcoming releases, here's another album sampler from our friends at Experimedia. On this 7-minute preview of their latest work, the San Francisco based duo, Maxwell August Croy and James Devane, releasing under the name En explore ambient swells and textured atmospheres, in their debut collection of recordings, The Absent Coast. "The pair utilize a wide range of instrumentation - koto, guitar, vocals, rhodes, melodica, and piano, among other devices - which is processed and refined into rich walls of reverberant bliss . With its hazy atmospherics, microtonal drones and plaintive tones, the album evokes the type of unplaceable nostalgia that accompanies the imaginary landscapes of past memory." Listen to the track...

Oceania - Grow Wild
The intarwebs are full of wonders. Thanks to the interlinked musical genius of Soundcloud, I can browse the latest unknown releases, and bathe in the sound of the underground. Here's a deep rolling bass release from Savory Audio a digital dubstep label out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, running a few local events and steadily releasing some inspirational tunes, breaking through the genre bounding rules of dubstep. This track comes from a Russian producer going by the name Oceania. I can't find anything else on this artist at the moment, but the music speaks for itself... Check out this track...