CITY FATHER – HighClouds

City Father shares new banger “Vis-a-Vis”

Arnaud Marty — Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:59:39 +0000

City Father‘s new single “Vis-a-Vis” is out now on Mateo Sound.

City Father‘s new single “Vis-a-Vis” is a dual track that can be lived on a dancefloor or in non-club settings. Driven by a pulsating synth riff and old school drum loops, the house banger is another tour de force from the Los Angeles-based underground producer who caught our attention with his amazing debut track “Coquette“. This new song is smoothly inviting us to welcome the melancholia of fall and to dance away the last warm nights of the summer.

City Father premieres bruising remix of Saro’s single “Vapor”

Ed Ledsham — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:00:26 +0000

**We’re happy to premiere today City Father‘s official remix of Saro‘s “Vapor”.**

When one presses play on a City Father track one can never know what kind of journey to expect. An initial flash of a dark London garage beat quickly gives way to synths that suggest a retro-futurist Detroit. Before you know it you’re at the feet of a sci-fi house diva in awe of some beautiful melody. A City Father track is always wonderfully unpredictable in a world that often focuses a little too much on the beauty of hypnotic minimalism. There’s something of a different escapist joy to that which one usually experiences in dance music here. It’s weirdly similar to the complicated song-suites of progressive rock where whole albums of ideas are fused into one elongated song. City Father, however, pulls this off without the faintest whiff of pretension and with an eye fixed hard on the dancefloor. City Father‘s bruising remix of Saro‘s single “Vapor” is a worthy addition to the underground electronic producer’s catalogue.

The original version of “Vapor” is featured on Saro‘s “Boy Afraid” EP.

Connect with City Father via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and keep things fresh with Saro over Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

HighClouds: 100 Tracks of 2017

Arnaud Marty — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:16:45 +0000

We can undoubtedly write that 2017 was a great year for music. We know it because our staff almost had to fight to agree on the final choice below and we’re proud of presenting a list which features a lot of up and coming artists and songs in 7 languages. Scroll down through our countdown and find the whole charts as well via Spotify and Deezer below.

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100. CITY FATHER – “Coquette”

99. BILLIE EILISH – “Bellyache”

98. SABRINA CLAUDIO – “Belong To You”

97. PETRA GLYNT – “Fell In A Hole”

96. HERCULES & LOVE AFFAIR + SHARON VAN ETTEN – “Omnion”

95. GIRLI – “Hot Mess”

94. THE SOFT MOON – “Burn”

93. J.I.D – “Never”

92. ACE TEE + KWAM.E – “Bist Du Down?”

91. CRALIAS – “Hope You Are”

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90. CHROMATICS – “Shadow”

89. RUN THE JEWELS – “Legend Has It”

88. CARDI B – “Bodak Yellow”

87. YELLOW DAYS – “Hurt In Love”

86. JFDR – “Airbone”

85. SUSANNE SUNDFØR – “Undercover”

84. TOM TRIPP – “Aurelia”

83. SUPERORGANISM – “Something For Your M.I.N.D.”

82. KAN WAKAN – “Still Feather”

81. NILÜFER YANYA – “Baby Luv”

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80. WAKE CHILD – “In The End”

79. JAJA BU – “Sweetness”

78. ALVVAYS – “Dreams Tonite”

77. KIDÄ – “Bone Mother”

76. HÅN – “The Children”

75. ULYSSE – “Mañana”

74. SHY GIRLS – “You Like The Pain Too”

73. GOURMET – “Delicious”

72. SORCHA RICHARDSON – “4AM”

71. MILLIE TURNER – “Underwater”

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70. NABIHAH IQBAL – “Something More”

69. KEDR LIVANSKIY – “Your Name (имя твоё)”

68. MORGXN – “xx”

67. GRIZZLY BEAR – “Mourning Sound”

66. DANIEL CAESAR + KALI UCHIS – “Get You”

65. DILLON – “2.KIND”

64. COUCOU CHLOE + SEGA BODEGA – “Flip U”

63. THE TRP – “Soda”

62. JAY SOM – “The Bus Song”

61. GFOTY – “Tongue”

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60. SELENA GOMEZ -“Bad Liar”

59. ELA MINUS – “Juan Sant”

58. EMPRESS OF – “Go To Hell”

57. SHE Major – “Please Don’t”

56. VAGABON – “Cold Appartment”

55. NADINE – “Ultra Pink”

54. SONDER – “Feel”

53. RINA SAWAYAMA – “Alterlife”

52. SEGA BODEGA + SHYGIRL – “CC”

51. GOLDLINK + BRENT FAIYAZ – “Crew”

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50. CRATER – “Unearth”

49. QUAY DASH – “Decline Him”

48. YELLE – “Romeo”

47. GABRIEL GARZÓN-MONTANO – “Fruitflies”

46. WESLEE – “Bathwater”

45. FOREST SWORDS – “The Highest Flood”

44. KENDRICK LAMAR + ZACARI – “LOVE.”

43. ALEX CAMERON + ANGEL OLSEN – “Stranger’s Kiss”

42. SMERZ – “Oh My My”

41. SASSY 009 – “Are You Leaving”

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40. CHARLI XCX – “Roll With Me”

39. TESSA DIXSON – “Prayer”

38. TOMMY GENESIS – “Tommy”

37. SSION – “Comeback”

36. PIXX – “Romance”

35. DANNY L HARLE – “1UL”

34. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM – “american dream”

33. LANA DEL REY – “Love”

32. KING KRULE – “Dum Surfer”

31. SAMPHA – “(No One Knows Me) Like The Piano”

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30. MAKTHAVERSKAN – “Vienna”

29. CCFX – “The One To Wait”

28. KLLO – “Downfall”

27. KELLY LEE OWENS + JENNY HVAL – “Anxi.”

26. BLUE HAWAII – “No One Like You”

25. FEVER RAY – “Wanna Sip”

24. JULIEN BAKER – “Turn Out The Lights”

23. LIL PEEP + LIL TRACY – “witchblades”

22. FAKA – “Uyang’khumbula”

21. TR/ST – “Bicep”

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20. SARO – “Eyelids”

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19. BROCKHAMPTON – “Summer”

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18. TYLER, THE CREATOR + KALI UCHIS – “See You Again”

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17. O-SHiN – “A Revelation”

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16. ionnalee – “SAMARITAN”

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15. Vince Staples – “Crabs In A Bucket”

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14. WWWATER – “My Hands”

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13. Björk – “Blissing Me”

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12. Carly Rae Jepsen – “Cut To The Feeling”

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11. Big Thief – “Mythological Beauty”

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10. SZA – “Drew Barrymore”

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9. Frank Ocean – “Chanel”

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8. Wy – “Bathrooms”

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7. SOPHIE – “It’s Okay To Cry”

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6. Moses Sumney – “Doomed”

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5. Kelela – “Onanon”

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4. Arca – “Desafío”

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3. Lorde – “The Louvre”

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2. Perfume Genius – “Slip Away”

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1. Yaeji – “Raingurl”

Listen to the 100 tracks of 2017 according to the HighClouds‘ staff via Spotify, Youtube and Deezer.

⚡ CITY FATHER’s “Coquette” is the sound of night-time noir Los Angeles

Ed Ledsham — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 08:56:15 +0000

After debuting last month with his remix of Saro‘s “Looking,” Los Angeles-based producer City Father is back with a lush new single, “Coquette.”

City Father is an LA-based musician who you’d swear was from London. His music is rich in the ominous bass sounds and irregular rhythms of that city’s distinctive club scene. “Coquette”, though, is more than a dull copy of a generically post-dubstep sound. The press release describes this track as existing “in that elusive space between club music and home listening”, an apt description of a track that seems almost to function as a condensed version of an hour-long DJ mix. While dance music might be known for its tantric repetition, City Father‘s “Coquette” hardly repeats itself at all. This feels more like a through-composed instrumental electronic piece than the minimal drum tracks of most house and techno. Each element that does appear in the track could be happily extended for several minutes, but the choice not to do so makes the track utterly addictive. Hearing each of these sounds once just isn’t enough.

Forget seedy jazz, City Father‘s “Coquette” is the sound of today’s night-time noir Los Angeles.

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Connect with City Father via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram and re-discover his flip of Saro‘s “Looking” below!

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