Outstanding listening! Clipping Paths provides deep urban vibes, bass-driven tribal mid-tempo, trip hop and ‘glitch-hop’ that will also rock most dancefloors. The last few tracks take you into deeper territories providing a luscious ending for the CD.
Muti Music is known for finding new and unique talent, this compilation features the Muti roster and closely related artists who are also emerging on labels like Interchill, Cyberset and Native State.

Clipping Paths is a compilation showcase of the sounds that are moving the west coast at the moment as well as many other areas around USA, including small pockets in Colorado, Texas, Oregon and New York.

The CD ranges from deep urban vibes from Suff-x, Undecided and Vibesquad, to ethereal bass-driven tribal midtempo and Trip Hop from an-ten-nae, Nanda, KiloWatts, Timonkey and Dov, to a crunky mixed genre mid-tempo track from Ooah, that is sure to rock most dancefloors, but deep enough at the same time to prove the perfect segway heading into the deeper territories of IDM, Leftfield and Nugaze inspired tracks from Audiovoid, Kraddy and Slidecamp ending the CD in a very warm and luscious space.

Many of the styles featured have been growing in popularity and seeing large exposure with the emergence of a similar musical tastes in scenes growing in Berlin, San Francisco, London and even Cape Town. This ‘newer’ sound has partially been an homage by producers to the Hip Hop and Big Beat along with early experimental electronica that they loved in the nineties and bootlegging the hyphe and crunk of the new millennium with the new digital tools and a new production based prowess.

Muti Music is known for finding new and unique talent, this compilation features most of Muti’s regular roster and then a group of closely related artists that we are feeling, who are also emerging on labels like Alpha Pup, Interchill Records, Dirtybird and Native State.
This compilation is as fun for a manic dancefloor stomp, a come-down session, a groove and a mingle, a fire warmed cabin or even a walk on the beach.

The second of two CD’s compiling all the Muti Music catalog from the first three years, this one serving as a statement for the future direction of the Muti Music label and our impact on urban music. That direction being a continued commitment to electro bass influenced music, combining existing tearout and bass driven breakbeat with electro and using slower tempos while still creating dance-floors mayhem. ‘Conscious Ferilla’ by Kraddy served as the perfect track to launch our intentions.
The release also features artwork from an image by one of our favorite visual artists, Mark Holthusen.

‘Conscious Ferilla’ was one of the first tracks spawning the genre classification ‘Glitch-Hop’ and has been played by everyone who does the midtempo breaks business. Kraddy - Brecht has become somewhat of a classic wobbly bass track with it’s epic intro and support form a wide range of DJs and this time Dov also enters the roster on remix duties with a steppy rework combining ethereal voice sounds along with sirens and wobbly bass.’Becht’ was also included on the ‘Sound In A Vacuum vol 2′ on Atomic Mouse Recordings and on Kraddy’s artist album ‘Truth Has No Path’ on Refiner Records. This EP also saw the first outing of the collaboration project between Dov & An-ten-nae composing as D’nA, this time combining electro bass influences with tearout breaks and dubby vibes, it is a smasher on the floor.

This was Kraddy’s first release and his entry into the world of breakbeats and electro. Kraddy’s production and quirky flavor is now legendary and he is one of the founders and stars of ‘The Glitch Mob’ , the music world was initially quite shocked and did not know what to make of his unique sounds when this release first dropped. Muti obtained a quality remix from at the time emerging talent from the Botchit Breaks label, ‘Atomic Hooligan’ and this standout release was the resulting product.This was also the first Muti Music release to result in store signings along with a mini tour in the Pacific Northwest for Dov, Kraddy, Atomic Hooligan and Suff-x. The Seattle gig resulted in a closing tag session with Dov and Kraddy after Terry Hooligan had ’scratched’ the crowd into a frenzy and chanting “Muti, Muti…”