Speculator: "Century Select Pt. 1"
Dark nights spent swilling Mtn. Dew and eating stuffed crust pizza while stuck in a 16-bit coma of Sonic 3 have metamorphosized into music on the new Speculator cassette Century Select. The tape kicks...
View ArticleCo-Premiere: Speculator: "I Wait All Day"
We're used to Los Angeles' Nick Ray road-tripping around the peripheries of hypnagogia with his Speculator project, but this new Lifestyle cassette on matthewdavid's Leaving Records is literally "next...
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By Marissa A. RossMP3: Speculator: "Pure Ecstasy"MP3: Speculator: "Afraid of the Future"I’ve learned many things in my whole twenty-four years on this Earth, and one of the more important things I’ve...
View ArticleWeekend: "Coma Summer (Speculator's Subconscious Mix)"
A while back, Speculator's Nick Ray sent me what he called an "intervention" on Sinead O'Connor's "Nothing Compares 2 You." That word seemed pretty apt for his take on the track; it wasn't changed up...
View ArticleSpeculator: "Jenny Says"
Speculator's first album, Lifestyle, was a fantastic cassette release that dropped last year via Leaving Records. According to Nick, his goal was not only to sample from a plethora of artists using...
View ArticleStream Speculator's Nice
On Nice, Speculator's Nick Ray expounds on his Lifestyle repertoire to craft a perfect blend of '80s memories and low fidelity slacker pop. The slurring vocals and reverb-laden, grandiose atmospherics...
View ArticleGuest Post: Speculator
Nick Ray of Speculator says: I came across this video by chance sometime in the past last year. This guy, "RC Storm," a.k.a YouTube user ''MeAndTheV," has built what I'm guessing is the world's largest...
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Words For The Road
In our year-and-a-half on the information highway, we had the good fortune of witnessing what was at once a very prolific time, a very confusing time, and a very exciting time in underground music....
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