Despite being the second Jog/Shuttle release by numbers, this really is the first one and I feel very lucky to present it: Our Foolish Pride is the latest incarnation of Berlin based artist Till who has already released several Gameboy-made chiptune albums as Flashbob, most recently on Kittenrock.

The Our Foolish Pride EP now goes into an entirely different direction. Actually, I don’t know much about all these tiny genres of electronic music, so I don’t know what box this release should go to. I’ll just try to describe what it sounds like to me:

Our Foolish Pride sounds like the soundtrack for early summer. It sounds like having your eyes closed and seeing the bright sunlight only as a dark orange projection through your eyelids. But there is a flicker, interrupting the light. Sometimes it feels random like you’re lying in the park and the sunlight is disturbed by the leaves moving in the wind. Sometimes it feels like a beat, like sitting in a hot suburban train where the sunlight is broken by poles and bridges speeding past. (Actually, someone please make a music video to the song you like most. We’d love to see that.)

This is only my interpretation, sorry for influencing you. And I guess it is entirely different from the artist’s idea. Whatever.

Listen to or download individual songs (192k mp3):

  1. Cloudkill #9

  2. Symmes’ Hole

  3. On the Edge of Despair

  4. Glacial Spine

  5. Flux Photonique

Download the whole release as a zip file (33 MB) including five mp3 files and cover artwork.

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Creative Commons LicenseThis music is released unter Creative Commons’ by-nc-sa license, which encourages you to distribute and remix these songs, given that you credit the author, Our Foolish Pride, and re-release your derivative work under similar conditions. Commercial use is not permitted per se, but please feel free to contact Jog/Shuttle if you want to use this music in ways not granted by this license.