I’ve been keeping an eye on 21-year-old Miami producer Steve Vaynshtok, aka AbdeCaf, since he dropped me a line just before he was scheduled to play last summer’s North Coast Music Festival. Vaynshtok tinkers with spastic chiptune, brooding cloud rap, and hyperactive disco, and he excels when he manages to instill a song with a smidgen of melancholy; one of the best moments on last year’s Rebuild EP is when a warped sample of Drake’s “Crew Love” first appears on “Old Flame,” providing the silky and syrupy track with its wistful tone.
So when Vaynshtok approached me to premiere a remix he did of “Yes, Some Things Are So Heavy” by Brooklyn indie-rock outfit Conveyor, I was interested; once I heard the song, I was hooked. Today’s 12 O’Clock Track is the premiere in question, which you can hear after the jump.