Name: Deepak Verbera
Brand: Botany

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WV146cd

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Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2016-10-14

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Supplier US

Secre­tly

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Sales:8.875

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751937436829

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

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Botany

Genre US

Electronic

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Western Vinyl

With only a handful of releases to his credit, Texas native Spencer Stephenson has covered a vast array of musical ground with his work as Botany. Integrating live instrumentation and dusty samples, his compositional techniques are informed by hip-hop and beat-heavy electronic music, but they reference spiritual jazz, psychedelic folk, ambient, and numerous other styles. His work varies from more rhythmic tracks to free-flowing washes of sound, but it's always conscious, uplifting, and organic.

Originally from northern Texas, Stephenson started experimenting with music production as a teenager, inspired by Four Tet, Madlib, J Dilla, and others. He began sharing his music online in 2008 and released his first EP Feeling Today, featuring vocalist Ashley Rathburn in 2010. Botany remixed artists such as Ryat and Cuushe and produced a track on Lushlife's 2012 album Plateau Vision.

In 2013, after relocating to a farm outside Austin, Stephenson recorded his full-length debut Lava Diviner (Truestory). The most hip-hop-oriented Botany release to date was the limited LP Dimming Awe, the Light Is Raw in 2015 which included guests like rapper Milo and Leaving Records founder Matthewdavid. In 2016 came the surprising excursion into cosmic

Deepak Verbera, the third LP by Austin's Spencer Stephenson aka BOTANY, bends the beat-driven path carved by the composer's first two records into meterless cosmic territory, juxtaposing free jazz arrhythmia with cathedral-filling harmony, ringing off the temple walls with soaring grandeur. The billowing textures that loomed behind his previous output break unabashedly into the foreground, shedding the beats that once stenciled them in. What arises in the absence of discernable rhythm is a psych-inflected scrapbook of atmospheres with tremendous sonic and emotional breadth.In essence Deepak Verbera is a soundscape record created through methods usually found in hip-hop; vinyl samples, looped vocal phrases, pulsing bass, and warm synths all shimmer with kosmische-indebted splendor, like Popol Vuh with MPCs and a stack of secondhand records.

Deepak Verbera

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