Edition Audiotool: floydpjasper

Welcome to our this week's Featured Artist's Top 10 Album. Thanks @floydpjasper for compiling it. Support floydjaspers feature on Facebook as well: https://www.facebook.com/notes/audiotool/featured-artist-floydjasper/1063163180372615 1. Inject(c) by @andremichelle "It feels fitting to start with a track by the grandmaster of Audiotool, Andre Michelle. Andre's tracks leave me feeling like a child playing with power tools. His discipline and dedication to theme always inspires. This track has got some serious roots on it, the filter techniques and delay work speak to the style's origins in the studios of Jamaica's Dub masters while the chord stabs and percussion have got that classic Basic Channel vibe. This one's a history class for sure." 2. Ultraviolet by @opaqity "Opaqity is one of my favorite AT artists. I don't understand how he makes his tracks so smooth and jazzy while claiming to know nothing of jazz composition. From the moment I heard his tracks, the sheer classiness of Opaqity's productions immediately blew me away. His attention to detail and worshipful approach to melody and harmony never fails to impress." 3. Slown by @hud "Hud. is one of the dopest sample manglers Audiotool has ever produced. There's just something about the way his tracks fit together that is so polished yet so unbelievably raw at the same time. His tracks are like the best samurai movies, they synthesize the unspeakably beautiful with the unimaginably bleak in sublime proportion. About the track: that bass..." 4. Conga_jams_01 by @VLTRA "Another super raw track from another of AT's finest outsiders. The use of noise and ambiance in this track is so good it hurts. The way the kick and the distorted toms duck that main loop is just ridiculous. Lo-fi at it's lo-finest. VLTRA's got that "so sloppy it's tight" sh*t down to a science." 5. Tijuana by @tornsage "Torn (as is the case for many people, I think) was one of the first "big names" in the AT community to give me the time of day. In addition to being one of the most original and emotive artists on AT, he is also a major supporter of emerging artists; and seems like a wicked nice dude to boot! The mood of this track is amazing, super grimy. I can feel the air rippling like water in the heat of the sun when that trumpet sample hits. " 6. Night Train by @Olaf "One of my earliest fav's as an AT user. The way that delirious bass-line pulls the groove along is incredible. The delicate use of space in this track is perfect. For me, the "true artistry" (a phrase that generally leaves a bad taste in my mouth) in minimalist music is in the creation of a theoretical multi-dimensional space that all the instruments exist in, and then the subsequent subtle manipulation of said space to create a sense of change and movement. This is all that and more. " 7. Finding The Words To Say To You @sky bound zoo "This track completely blows my mind. So loose, yet so much groove, and the harmonic structure is utterly merciless. This track is an excellent example of a production style that I like to call "manipulating the 3rd thing" whereby the artist manipulates a finished work by carefully selecting seemingly disparate and en-harmonic inputs and uses the listener's experiences, feelings, thoughts, etc... to generate the perceived diatonic output (finished work) which really only exists post-ear in the individual listeners head. I guess actually, that kinda describes all music... this is just a really good track." 8. Premaster001 by @днa "I don't 100% know who this is. Appears to be an alternate account, and I suspect I may have already put one of this person's tracks on this list. But what the hell, this track is way too good to pass up. I've learned that it really takes a lot of confidence and vision to take a track as simple as this from start to finish. It's way too easy to start second guessing and asking the "to much/to little" question early on in the creative process, thus destroying the sense of naturalness and spontaneit