Left Side Deaf

After listening to Girl Talk (absolutely amazing artist) in class, it has inspired me to listen to more electronic music.  This is also a follow up to one of my previous blogs about Fatal Dubstep.  That channel on Youtube led me to find another amazing electronic/dubstep/glitch hop artist: Left Side Deaf.  

(This is the album cover from their 2012 album entitled "Aurora")

Left side deaf combines aspects of dubstep which is a genre of electronic music, mostly dance music, that contains "tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals," (Allmusic.com). 

The song above is a perfect example of many of these characteristics; overwhelming bass lines, especially the chorus, different yet repeated (snare) drum patterns that resurface throughout the whole piece, clipped samples and occasional vocals that are combined into one entity.  Left Side Deaf usually uses clips and samples of female vocals for a reason that I have yet been informed as to why but they are very good at it none the less. 

One song of theirs that I really like (and so happened to find on Youtube) is called "Clutch."  This song incorperates what is known to electronic music lovers as "glitch hop."  Glitch hop can be described as intentional "glitches" that are put into the music that help progress the song.  To the untrained ear, this might sound like a mistake but this is far from reality.  Many times the artist will also add aspects of hip hop to their music, mainly drum breaks, to create an even more complex and amazing sound.

Left Side Deaf is a new and up-and-coming artist that hopefully will be able to make it in the big bad world that is music because there is definitely potential for a very successful career.

-Brooks Gonzales