Kansas isn’t the primary place most individuals consider when speaking about digital music — however Marty Augustine is attempting to alter that. The Kansas Metropolis based mostly producer simply unleashed Ghosts, a 12-track album from his personal Slice Pirate Music label that’s equal components trance revival, late-night warehouse power, and cinematic storytelling with beats.
From the bounce, Ghosts makes its presence identified. “Drop That Bass” and “Smoke” are bruisers constructed for darkish, sweaty golf equipment, whereas the title monitor weaves haunting melodies into an atmospheric paranormal journey that sticks with you lengthy after the lights come up. Augustine flexes his nostalgia on “When We Have been Younger,” a euphoric pop-dance anthem that includes the voice of Maizy Luna that seems like a time machine again to less complicated days.
Nevertheless it’s the deeper cuts that showcase Augustine’s vary. Tracks like “5 AM,” “To The Stars,” and “Hypnotica” stretch into his staple expansive, cinematic territory that he has been getting recognition for— soundscapes that really feel extra like movie scores, which very properly might, and will, be. Ghosts is proof that his imaginative and prescient is greater than simply constructing the subsequent drop.
“Ghosts is concerning the items of the previous we always remember,” Augustine says. “I needed every monitor to carry again outdated recollections and emotions whereas creating new ones on the identical time.”
With this launch, Marty Augustine isn’t simply dropping one other album — he’s exhibiting that the Kansas heartland is greater than only a flyover spot on the map — it’s a brand new frontier for digital sound. Ghosts is streaming now on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube, Amazon, and Bandcamp.
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