Fostercare

At the beginning of the week Fostercare released his newest EP, Stray. It's actually the first in a five-EP series titled Key of Chains that will be released during the rest of this year and into next. Stray has an intense rave feel to it, blurring the lines of terror and ecstasy throughout. Check out my favorite track from the EP (and one of my favorite tracks of the year so far), and tell your browser bling is a real word if it tries to say otherwise.
- Get off the Coast (an Altered Zones blog)

Hailing from the darkest streets of Brooklyn, Marc Jason aka Fostercare delivered some brilliant, considerably gloomy stuff via Disaro and Clan Destine last year, making him one of the most exciting exponents of that certain genre whose name is banned from these pages. In any case, Marc hit us up with exciting news the other day, announcing a new label he has set up to release a few artists a year, thereby focusing on music “that is experimental and works outside of a singular genre, while also having a distinctly pop aesthetic”, which sounds more than noteworthy to us. The first work dropped via JI9X is Refixes, a collection of Fostercare material that’s been, well, “refixed”, which in the artist’s description means that the jams have been reworked to make them more complex and to add a “screwed rave aesthetic”. Considering the terrific result re Sunfreeze, the title track of last year’s EP on Disaro, he has obviously been successful, as his Blown Out Refix is five minutes of deepest black that nonetheless makes you wanna dance in strange ways, and hasn’t this kind of music always been all about that in essence?

Below, watch the exclusive premiere of the video for the refix of Sunfreeze, an adequately dark piece that indeed is terrifying by all means, a flickering, restless collage of all nightmares you possibly had as of late. You probably shouldn’t watch this right before going to sleep. We’ve warned you. - No Fear of Pop

Weird things happen to Fostercare’s face in this vid, cross-eyed and covered in sand. Weird things happen to bare chested people in chains, and on beaches and on soccer fields, and weird things happen to his voice, fighting its way through square waves and wet towels. Weirdly beautiful end though, as vocal glitches expire and the sun sets over Waikiki, a slow-robotting “Jon” from Delocated dancing his screw-rave debut. “Sunfreeze” and nine death-pitched others are available now on Fostercare’s Refixes album.

Read more: http://www.thefader.com/2011/02/03/video-fostercare-sunfreeze-blown-out-refix/#ixzz1mEOlTpRW - The Fader

"Burn this City" the latest release from Fostercare has everything we love: dark content, rap and rave plus big beatz. How do we call this genre? Maybe: Future primitive okkvlt urban tribal juntz. You name it. - Electronic Beats

Fostercare makes music that sounds like it is being made on a laptop from the third floor of the New Rose Crack Hotel. Desolate… desperate, this is Future Elliot Smith music; what it might sound like if Joy Division were raised in Chiba City and not Manchester. Filled with broken dreams and bass even more broken, the music on Second Thoughts lopes with dread and lonlieness.

Although Marc Jason hails from New York, his music could be from anywhere or nowhere. Built upon jagged and amateur beats, his songs are love songs to disgust and disappointment. At times they labor on, but that’s kind of the point. It is not always easy listening, but Fostercare is far from party music. Songs like “Jam” and Scavenger” seem honest, among a whole slew of music being made today that takes pride in sounding false. Utilizing sparse electronics, Jason raps in his own kind of talking blues mantra that may be more spoken word than hip hop. As the songs progress, he utilizes pitch and effects to create an atmosphere where his internal dialogue is externalized. The result is that the listener feels coerced into being a third party to his own inner conflict… and it is as unsettling as it sounds.

Much like the classical No Wave of Lydia Lunch’s 13:13, Fostercare’s Second Thoughts could be accused of being deliciously unlistenable. It seems too simple, and a disservice to all parties to simply lump Fostercare into the category of post Salem drag. What Marc Jason is doing seems to be more a direct descendent of minimal synth and the more challenging music of artists like the Swans and Not Available-era Residents.

Cyberpunk Industrial, perhaps. Future Anti-Folk, indeed. Witch House… absolutely not. - Mishka

"All the usual witch-house bagagge- enigmatic names, wordplay that mashes up hip-hop and occultism, a megaton of reverb, doesn't obscure these inventive sounds....Brooklynite Fostercare, whose mixtapes mingle This Mortal Coil with classical composers, contributes four Dystopian raps to this split album including the bastardized dubstep of 'Queen' and the gothic reverie of 'Low'." - NME