VARIOUS: Cloud Watching Volume 3 (Riddim Fruit) (2013)

Google ‘cloud watching’ (like I just did) and you’ll probably find that the first search result is the Cloud Appreciation Society (‘Uniting cloud lovers around the world’) who are, “fighting the banality of blue sky thinking.” Unsure whether this was some sort of joke or whether there really are people apart from meteorologists out there that interested in clouds I had a quick tour around the site and frankly, results were inconclusive. Not so with Cloud Watching Volume 3, the usually dancefloor-oriented Riddim Fruit label’s annual attempt to fight the banality of downtempo compilations. Billa …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM

VARIOUS: Cloud Watching Volume 2 (Riddim Fruit) (2013) Free download

Cloud watching. Lie on your back and make two collide. Disperse one with your mind. Find ones that look like animals. Fucking hippies! They’re everywhere and now they’ve invaded the Riddim Fruit label a second time and forced ten artists on its roster to make ‘upbeat downtempo’ breaks. It’s outrageous. All that lying about in peaceful harmony, smoking dope and being nice to each other and not washing. Actually, it doesn’t sound too bad, apart from the not washing bit. I can …READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM