Trust The Guide & Glide vinyl

Matthew David McQueen's Leaving Records is right up our figurative alley, and absolutely on point with everything that we love about quirky, cutting-edge electronic music. Being from LA, both the artist - McQueen appears here as MatthewDavid's Mindflight - and the label have their roots dug into the Stones Throw end of the hip-hop spectrum, but the music on Trust The Guide & Glide goes way beyond any simple sampling, and enters the realm of the quintessentially weird. The cover, a sort of hallucinatory dreamworld in some distant fantasy planet, is a perfect representation of the music that follows suit; although the majority of these tracks would normally be categorised as straight-up ambient, we prefer to think of them as dreamy electronica, a gentle wave of euphoria that never truly washes off after listening. If you ever wonder what electronic album you could stick on during a meditation session, then you've hit the jackpot.

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