French producer Onra is a force to fall in love with when it comes to beats. There’s literally a strong chance that he’s your favorite producer’s favorite producer (cliche’s be damned) and he’s one of the best artists out there to experiment with song structure and sampling in way that feels visionary. That’s not easy to do considering how many other talented cats attempt to do the same thing but Onra mixes, remixes, crate digs, and arranges songs in a way that makes it seems like he’s capable of time travel in the way that he manages to sound futuristic or retro whenever he wants.

Below, check out the latest video for his cut, “Sitting Back” that definitely hits you with an all ’80s vibe unlike any other music video I’ve seen created this decade. This is all stuff that comes from some of the cheesiest global 80s clips you’ve probably never seen. As a certified ’80s baby, this one hits me in the right spot visually and the song is pure audible genius.

Onra – Sitting Back – Official Video from Matt Ferran on Vimeo.

This Tuesday brings a special treat to our Seattle peoples. Onra,  the Parisian beatsmaster with some of the deepest (digital) crates around, is swinging through town to bless your eardrums with some bass. I hear he soaked that shit in rose water already too. Or something.

As we’ve written in the past, Onra is music to either make babies or start fights to. If that sounds contradictory to you, then you need to take a listen to the many freely available releases out on these webs. Onra is a master of building tension within a moving song. His creations layer melody, rhythm and highly attuned absences of both, creating mini-dramas along each step of a single song’s development. The result is a sound that keeps necks solidly cracking even at the smoothest moments.

It’s going to be quite a night – the Stop Biting crew (including LxNxM family WD4D) are heavyweights unto themselves. The combo? Clearly an 800-lb gorilla that you should pay attention to. It all goes down at the Lo-Fi (429 Eastlake Ave E), be thurr.

Check out the track/video below, and due to poor Soundcloud choices, head over here to listen to a gang more.

Onra – The One feat. T3 from Slum Village from Onra on Vimeo.

The damn name says it all. Foreign Beggars, one of my favorite UK production/disque jockey crews, just dropped a new mix of that neck breaking type of beats, etc. The name: Barfcast. The music, everything from that new Big Boi to 40 water to French baby making/fight starting music-maker Onra.

Because Mixcloud doesn’t love WordPress, you have to leave this here blog to get the mix, and you should. GET IT.

Download: Foreign Beggars – Barfcast