Altered Zones

I've been a fan of Thomas Michael's music since he hooked me with his project Jaded Hipster Choir sometime last year, but since this past February, Michael has been keeping me grooving under the moniker Ghibli. What started as an exploration of classical music samples in hip hop and dance-influenced tracks, resulted in his fantastic album, Pythia. Composed of over thirty minutes of off-kilter house music built from an outstanding sample bank, Pythia gives me a break only long enough to stretch my legs and drink some water before giving the album another spin. On stand out "Brahman," the dance stuctures lose shape for a brief moment, falling into a highly charged ambient drone. Afterward, everything proceeds as normal, as if everyone dancing didn't suddenly start levitating for a few minutes there. --Jheri Evans, Get Off The Coast

MP3: Ghibli: "Brahman"

Pythia drops digitally on June 28, with the cassette hitting us just a week later on July 5 via Wonder Beard Tapes