Hiding within the nooks and crannies of SoundCloud is Australian producer and DJ Samuel Meier. Going by the name Sunbather, Meier is experimenting with ambient, floating soundscapes and dreamlike techno and house.
His most recent fixation, an original which samples Isaac Hayes’ “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” is a lush, melodic river to wistfully – and lazily – drift upon. With a slow building and uplifting groove that soothes the senses as it convinces you to ease into a comfortable level of existential bliss, the track, “Leaving My Heart Right Here,” is a constantly shifting, heart-string pulling synthwave landscape. It’s moving, lovely, atmospheric, and feels like the soundtrack to someone’s painful longing for intimacy. It’s supremely gorgeous in its embrace of melancholy.
Listen to Sunbather’s “Leaving My Heart Right Here” below.
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