Good slumber begins with hushed noise and ends with interrupted dreams. Enter into a relaxed other-world, courtesy of Wildarms.
Trading as Wildarms (the kind of arms we suspect are more Grimes slow-motion dancing down the middle of the road than hyped-up teens at a warehouse rave), Wildarms is Duncan Cooper, the Brooklyn based DJ densely layering wind-chime synths over aquatic hip hop. With the upcoming release of his first EP ‘Clear Eye’, i-D online secured an exclusive mix from the Cascine-signed producer. It’s something to get excited over, and fall asleep to. No more 8-hour Youtube clips of ‘Rain Sounds on a Car’ that you think will work but you can’t wait to end; Duncan combines pretty songs with fairytale sound effects to create a successful slumber, bed-time mix. It’s time to call it a night…
From Duncan…
“I find falling asleep really nerve-wracking. I can’t do it without listening to something to distract me from myself, and I try to make it the opposite of how I feel. Do you know that website that just plays rain sounds on a continuous loop? I ripped it off and put their MP3 under my mix. I don’t know why people like that sound so much. Do you think it has to do with memories of hearing inside their mother? This mix is that sound and some of the prettiest songs I can think of, by soft singer/songwriters like Marissa Nadler, MayMay and Castlemusic and a lot from the Japanese label Flau, which always releases these delicate little dots of songs that I bet would turn to dew in the morning if you kept them on loop. Everything here had to be very romantic, because my idea of a good night is someone having fallen asleep on your arm, but you stay awake for five extra minutes, and your hand is just kind of folded up onto itself on the other side of their shoulder, dangling upwards and getting a happy kind of cold. That’s really all you can hope for.”
Wildarms Clear Eyes EP is available now on Cascine.
