Shlohmo & How To Dress Well - Don't Say No

Perhaps even instrumental music is better described in French than in English.  Shlohmo (Henry Laufeur) is deeply influenced by DJ Shadow as well as Amon Tobin and M83.  Another key influence is the Low End Theory parties and sound associated with Flying Lotus (and his labelmates and collaborators Gaslamp Killer, Daedalus etc.).   He's been making beats since 14 but only with precision since he was 18.  He's established a fairly substantial and consistent collection of EP's and LP's in that time (SHLO-Fi EP, Fine, Thanks, Bad Vibes (2011) and recently the Vacation EP (2012) .  It makes sense that he'd be big in France for they're the only country that's bothered to write a wiki on him- and an artful one at that:

"The tracks are linked with consistency and fluidity disconcerting, each adding a delicate stone building. 

<< L'oreille, jamais agressée, se laisse envahir par les nappes voilées et se pelotonne au creux des basses moelleuses>>.  

The ear, never abused, is invaded by groundwater veiled and curls in soft hollow bass."
 

There are no better words in English to describe the pensive sound of Shlohmo.  While his material rarely by it's nature reaches for the piste or heights of sound his most recent collaboration with How To Dress Well (Tom Krell) on Don't Say No adds vocal peaks and rivulets of sound that shake Shlohmo a bit out of his sedimentary drift.