More warming study beats for cold days from: Wing Vilma, and Mindless Meditation
I’m still in the mood for tunes to warm the cockles of your heart. Here’s Wing Vilma, and Mindless Meditation with two more warming but chilled tracks.
Wing Vilma (Milly Coleman) has been around since 2017. Her work uses electronics with field recordings giving everything an organic feel. She’s just released Snack Basket, a collection of synth-driven tracks. From this release enjoy Orchid Forest.
Wing Vilma says Orchid Forest “was written as a kind of meditation on finding joy at the last second of the final golden light of the day.” This is lofi synths offering joy, if not meditation. This is too perky for that.
Synths bobble around as children play in the background. This is consciously naive offering a sense of simple pleasures. But it’s not a simple track. There’s a lovely use of dark sounds in the bass and an almost trumpet melody line.
The track really benefits from that dark and light interplay. All very yin and yang. But also using ascending sounds to deliver that element of joyousness. Clever stuff that veers from usual study beat templates into something much more akin to IDM.
Germany’s Mindless Meditation from Munich returns here after almost a year to offer Mansion By The Beach from the Beach Manifestation EP. Mindless Meditation claims to be a psychologist, saying “As a psychologist I know: most people would benefit from more closeness to themselves, awareness and relaxation.”
And Mansion By The Beach is definitely one for relaxation, harking back to an old school chill vibe. However, it does so with a fair old whack of hip hop beats that offer a solid reassuring thump alongside a sax/clarinet jazzy lead.
Everything goes with a swing but not so much as to upset your cocktail. This is one cool beach to sit on. Kick back and allow yourself to be transported. Meditiation recommended but not required.
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