{"id":125447,"date":"2019-02-17T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/?p=347497"},"modified":"2019-02-17T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T16:02:04","slug":"louis-futon-serenades-with-jazzy-flip-of-james-blakes-retrograde-ahead-of-debut-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/?p=125447","title":{"rendered":"Louis Futon serenades with jazzy flip of James Blake\u2019s \u2018Retrograde\u2019 ahead of debut album release"},"content":{"rendered":"<img alt=\"Louis Futon serenades with jazzy flip of James Blake&#8217;s &#8216;Retrograde&#8217; ahead of debut album releaseLouis Futon Debut Album\" src=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"RSS Feed\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-400x400.jpg 400w, http:\/\/dancingastro.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><p><a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/louis-futon\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Louis Futon<\/a> is releasing his debut album, <em>Way Back When<\/em>, on Feb. 22. To celebrate the occasion, he produced another fan favorite flip of <a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/James-Blake\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">James Blake<\/a>&#8216;s crooning &#8220;Retrograde.&#8221; Through sped-up vocals and a swinging groove, Futon caresses the core of the track with wet chords, guitar riffs, jazz flute, and saucy sax. The funky electro artist from Philly enlisted <a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/tag\/Berklee-College-of-Music\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Berklee College of Music<\/a> alum Hailey Niswanger for her prowess on the flute and guitar, which added much-needed jazz elements to the melodically complex rendition.<\/p>\n<p>As always, Futon, shares a glimpse of his production process in a concise video, outlining the steps taken to create edit posted on his SoundCloud. Earlier this year, he gave listeners a taste of his debut album with the single, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/2019\/01\/louis-futon-inches-towards-album-release-cosmically-colorful-supposed\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">Supposed to Be<\/a>&#8221; featuring Duckwrth and Baegod.<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FLouisfutonbeats%2Fvideos%2F547556465739523%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=267\" width=\"267\" height=\"476\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/574954407&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">?<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DancingAstronaut\/~4\/YSTGMp5X9Dk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Louis Futon serenades with jazzy flip of James Blake&rsquo;s &lsquo;Retrograde&rsquo; ahead of debut album releaseLouis Futon Debut Album\" src=\"https:\/\/dancingastronaut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Louis-Futon-debut-album-150x150.jpg\">Through sped-up vocals and a swinging groove, Futon caresses the core of the track with wet chords, guitar riffs, jazz flute, and saucy sax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125447"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125448,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125447\/revisions\/125448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/earthquakemix.com\/boom\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}