"Yes, I make the beats too..." reads the tag on Portland, OR-based singer/songwriter/producer
Natasha Kmeto's Myspace page. Lucky for us that she does: her tunes match her formidable pipes with her own gritty, bass-heavy electronic beats. She describes it as "futuristic soul;" in more concrete terms, it sounds a lot like
Flying Lotus paired with a soulful, dynamic singer — in other words, awesome.
There's still time to jump on this bandwagon before your hipster friends, too — Kmeto has been garnering positive local press, but is currently unsigned and has yet to break through on a grand scale. If you're lucky enough to live in or around Portland, you can catch Kmeto singing and performing with Ableton at one of her local live shows. If not, you can at least check out her two EPs,
9 and the "remix" EP
v9, and her full-length debut
Expressor, all of which she has self-released via iTunes and CDBaby. -
peter menniti
Natasha Kmeto Show Dates
10/13 - The Living Room Bar, Seattle, WA
11/11 - Holocene, Portland, OR
11/20 - Branx, Portland, OR
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Natasha Kmeto on Myspace