"Magician in the Mountain" - Louis Mackey

World Around Wednesdays is back.



strangle game changers with cable cords
watch their face blanken straight from beige to orange
with commercial tracks, subversive raps, work my magic in
on dirty mattresses, Merlin’s manuscripts and burnt cadaver’s skin

"Majestic Dimensions: Vol III" - Man Mantis

Man Mantis never stops moving. From soundtracking art exhibits to crowd-sourcing noises for beautiful experiments to force-feeding rap music LSD with Nocando, his emerging aesthetic in the past few years is distinctly dissimilar. After perfecting a recipe on Cities Without Houses, the man opted to burn it all down and walk away, which is admirable in any line of work.

"High on Art" - Dewey Decibel

Fresh visuals from Philadelphia insurgent Dewey Decibel. This is urgent and awesome, an exceptionally colorful blast of a video. Obviously Mr. Decibel is Kinda Artistic, and in fact Algorhythms hired him to produce an awesome cover for us. He's reliable like that. Dig into the man's musical catalog and buy something good.

Algorhythms - "Open Ended"

A track that should have been released ages ago finally sees the light of day: "Open Ended," the first track off a long lost Algorhythms album. Dr. Quandary on the beats.

Man Mantis - "Red Dragonfly"

Dark visions and future funk. This treatment by Joe Ramos enhances the track with some nightmare techno-shamanism. (The incarnation of Man Mantis who makes a cameo here has since been replaced by the 2012 mutation.)

Check out Cities Without Houses and stay tuned for way more Man Mantis material this summer.

Oneiric Field Mandala - Dr. Quandary

Raw, dark, psychedelic boom bap that draws from African deserts and Indian cities in equal measure. I fucking loved this track.



Dr. Quandary is, of course, a founder of World Around Records and an instrumental artist with serious bona fides for 2012. If you're digging this, his debut album is highly recommended: Beyond All Spheres of Force and Matter.