Mellowmaker
Following 2024âs Wobble, Mellowmaker is the second chapter in Black Market Karmaâs two-part album series on Fuzz Club. Crafted entirely by Stanley Beltonâwho writes, records, and produces everything himselfâthe record embraces analogue imperfections and tape wobble, splicing them with modern techniques to create a âcassette-ifiedâ lo-fi psychedelia blending â60s pop, â90s neo-psych, and crunchy hip-hop breakbeats.
"Mellowmaker was made immediately after Wobble, I kinda see them as two sides of each other", Belton says. The washed-out saturated vocals and jangling Vox guitars are there, but the in-built fuzz and repeater sounds on his cherished vintage Ultrasonic get some heavier usage here. Synths take more of a back-burner in favour of dreamy mellotron samples. Drums are still recorded with one mic and ran through guitar amps or mixed with drum machines, but lean even more into 60s dancefloor breakbeats.
At its core, Belton states that âMellowmakerâ attempts to give temporary permanence to the timeless and intangible, a liminal feeling permeating the eleven tracks here: "With these two albums I've attempted to crystallise how it feels to be stuck between a feeling of amnesia of the soul and the earthly experience of piloting a meat suit... Iâm still chasing that longing intangible âHiraethâ feeling. The sense of wanting to find our way home to a place that maybe doesnât exist."
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$12.80Mellowmaker
Following 2024âs Wobble, Mellowmaker is the second chapter in Black Market Karmaâs two-part album series on Fuzz Club. Crafted entirely by Stanley Beltonâwho writes, records, and produces everything himselfâthe record embraces analogue imperfections and tape wobble, splicing them with modern techniques to create a âcassette-ifiedâ lo-fi psychedelia blending â60s pop, â90s neo-psych, and crunchy hip-hop breakbeats.
"Mellowmaker was made immediately after Wobble, I kinda see them as two sides of each other", Belton says. The washed-out saturated vocals and jangling Vox guitars are there, but the in-built fuzz and repeater sounds on his cherished vintage Ultrasonic get some heavier usage here. Synths take more of a back-burner in favour of dreamy mellotron samples. Drums are still recorded with one mic and ran through guitar amps or mixed with drum machines, but lean even more into 60s dancefloor breakbeats.
At its core, Belton states that âMellowmakerâ attempts to give temporary permanence to the timeless and intangible, a liminal feeling permeating the eleven tracks here: "With these two albums I've attempted to crystallise how it feels to be stuck between a feeling of amnesia of the soul and the earthly experience of piloting a meat suit... Iâm still chasing that longing intangible âHiraethâ feeling. The sense of wanting to find our way home to a place that maybe doesnât exist."
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Following 2024âs Wobble, Mellowmaker is the second chapter in Black Market Karmaâs two-part album series on Fuzz Club. Crafted entirely by Stanley Beltonâwho writes, records, and produces everything himselfâthe record embraces analogue imperfections and tape wobble, splicing them with modern techniques to create a âcassette-ifiedâ lo-fi psychedelia blending â60s pop, â90s neo-psych, and crunchy hip-hop breakbeats.
"Mellowmaker was made immediately after Wobble, I kinda see them as two sides of each other", Belton says. The washed-out saturated vocals and jangling Vox guitars are there, but the in-built fuzz and repeater sounds on his cherished vintage Ultrasonic get some heavier usage here. Synths take more of a back-burner in favour of dreamy mellotron samples. Drums are still recorded with one mic and ran through guitar amps or mixed with drum machines, but lean even more into 60s dancefloor breakbeats.
At its core, Belton states that âMellowmakerâ attempts to give temporary permanence to the timeless and intangible, a liminal feeling permeating the eleven tracks here: "With these two albums I've attempted to crystallise how it feels to be stuck between a feeling of amnesia of the soul and the earthly experience of piloting a meat suit... Iâm still chasing that longing intangible âHiraethâ feeling. The sense of wanting to find our way home to a place that maybe doesnât exist."
