STREAMING // (Track) Fergus McCreadie – “Forest Floor”
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Piano: Fergus McCreadie
Double Bass: David Bowden
Drums: Stephen Henderson
Produced By: Fergus McCreadie
Executive Producer: Dave Stapleton
Classic Day – Static Age
While in 2022 sampled music and vocals come as no surprise to a mix for a record, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Becomes one of the first “masterpieces” in progressive sound circles between both David Byrne and Brian Eno.
The two eccentric and tasteful musicians that appear to always be at the cutting edge of production use My Life in the Bush of Ghosts as a formal introduction to space and time being the unconventional beauty of the performance.
The record begins with “America Is Waiting” where instead of seeing Byrne or Eno make an appearance through approachable singing, the group instead opts to use sampled words and vocalization from a wide range of sources.
The source material becomes one of the main reasons to adapt with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and to continue to revisit the project. With slight head turns towards the Talking Heads, and other head nods to the droning atmospheric noise of Eno, there are motions toward African influences all over the record.
During the time of recording, the Talking Heads took a break between the recordings of Fear Of Music in 1979, and Remain In Light in 1980. Together the locked sonic arms and abilities of both Eno and Byrne stay adaptive through “Mea Culpa” where the intensity of sound becomes ramped into near threatening levels.
“Mea Culpa” has these pounding tribal drums that spark against the frame of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts and begin to scatter the audience in thousands of directions. With components that rely on the sampled low-tuned narration which is jumbled beyond belief, the sampling becomes jumbled by overlaying layers upon layers to be one large mess of noise.
Later moments spent with My Life in the Bush of Ghosts like “Help Me Somebody” is based on spirituality for thematic taste, but instrumentally appears more as a Talking Heads b-side where the fast strumming strings and jungle congas are upbeat and frantic. In the most positive light for My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, “Help Me Somebody” is the easiest to approach and dance with.
One of the last touches of humanity on My Life in the Bush of Ghosts trades into “A Secret Life” where the vocalization of Samira Tewfik is as mesmerizing as it is pacing and tense. The percussion which keeps time as clicks and clasping cymbals, the found objects that are used within My Life in the Bush of Ghosts becomes the framework for the record.
Especially on “A Secret Life,” there are motions where the swooping strings and emotional draw becomes almost attached at moments to the audience. The overlay of Tewfik’s vocals are almost inhumane with pitch tampering and a daunting sense of scale to the once striking, but gorgeous voice.
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts becomes a studied hidden gem in a world of discovery from both Byrne and Eno. The two icons for good reason are a strange mix-up, but reveal some uncompromising and unrelenting ability through manipulation of sound.
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Misc. Day – Inhalation Crystals
A record that seemed to be created for the internet, a glitchy and vaporwave-esque description of sound follows through death’s dynamic shroud in their 2015 release, I’ll Try Living Like This.
Formation which occurs in the ethereal realm, death’s dynamic shroud occupies the early hours of the morning where the thrill is gone and only the consistent desire for rest occurs.
The first noticeable thing on I’ll Try Living Like This is just how shattered and scattered the production is. The collective hivemind of James Webster, Tech Honors, and Keith Rankin attach themselves to the distant but somehow current age of spacious instrumentation that is littered with sampling and vaguely recognizable key fragments of core memories.
With the opening track, “너 땜에 맘이 맘이 맘이 맘이 괴로워요 (Because Of You, My Heart, My Heart, My Heart, My Heart Is In Torture)” becomes this whimsical and distorted melody of chiming crystals and screwed vocals where the pitch is lowered and the sense of smoke can fill the atmosphere. death’s dynamic shroud is not entirely human to the approach and instead feels as if the conglomerate was a distinction and dissection of tangible love.
Especially with the soft gentle caresses on “이보다 좋을 수는 없겠어 (Nothing Can Be Better Than This)” where instrumentally, death’s dynamic shroud is calming and almost has this sentiment to become entirely sentient at one point. When the sampled vocals are introduced, the frame becomes staggered and slurred until the conflict lies with each portion of the album.
This is the theme for I’ll Try Living Like This to become a fractured piece of marble, beautiful to the gaze, but ultimately cracked and has this overwhelming feeling of uneasiness. This uneasiness follows with “내 마음은 떨고 (My Heart Is Wavering)” where the production appears almost as if it was cascading down a flight of stairs. At the bottom of this descent is an easy-to-follow dance routine instrumentally that punches the splintering vocals atop against a grain of harsh synths and warping power.
While I’ll Try Living Like This becomes clocks in almost perfectly an hour at 59 minutes, death’s dynamic shroud is a fantastic addition and introduction into some of the hybrid vaporwave aesthetics with electronic dance flags and whistles attached. The intensity of some of the performances here make the audience to be trapped in this unrelenting, never-ending arcade game where the motherboard has been compromised and the screens are a mess of pixels.
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SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “04/10/2022″
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“A playlist of tracks that were featured on MattsMusicMine.com from the week of April 4th – 10th. From Reviews to Streams, never miss a track with these playlists that are uploaded every single Sunday till I drop dead.”
Featuring: Coco Bryce, Clams Casino, Jazztronik, Absent In Body, Glemsel, Kvaen, Mike Wead, George Harrison, Nigo, Lil Uzi Vert, Action Bronson, HEALTH, EKKSTACY, Benny The Butcher, Conway The Machine, Yung Lean, FKA Twigs, Peggy Gou, Soulwax, No Swoon, Freddie Gibbs, Rick Ross
Track List: Irian Jaya, Wish We Didn’t Unknown Tokyo, In Spirit In Spite, Mod Afgrund, Damnations Jaw, All Things Must Pass, Isn’t It A Pity, Heavy, Subzero, STILL BREATHING, Tyson Vs. Ali, Billy Joe, Bliss, I Go, Beside, Ice Cream
STREAMING // (Video) Freddie Gibbs X Rick Ross – “Ice Cream”
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Produced By Kenny Beats
Director: JMP
Executive Producer: JOEY SZELA
Production Company: PAPERWORK STUDIO
STREAMING // (Track) No Swoon – “Beside”
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STREAMING // (Track) Total Sham – “Backstab”
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New Music – Riches To Rome
Rather than taking the low-hanging fruit, Benny The Butcher has always had this immaculate sense of burning through lines of hard lyricism, uncompromising force, and an ultimatum of sinking or swimming.
On his third studio record, Tana Talk 4 is a lightning strike in continuation with development in both approach and production for the record. The series Tana Talk in each instillation gives leaps and bounds within Benny The Butcher’s career. The first made an introduction to the scene, and likewise with Tana Talk 2.
Benny The Butcher explains it best with an interview from Apple Music, “I was on some mixtape, neighborhood…Tana Talk 2, I was still in the hood. I took over the city, though. Tana Talk 3, I took over the underground. Tana Talk 4, I feel like I’m taking over the world, honestly.”
While world domination seems to always be on the Griselda rappers’ mindsets, Benny The Butcher peels back Tana Talk 4 with “Johnny P’s Caddy” in an effortless display that features J. Cole.
Surprisingly, the features on Tana Talk 4 becomes one of the highlights of the record as the revolving door consists of Stove God Cooks, Boldy James, Diddy, Conway The Machine, Westside Gunn, and 38 Spesh. Especially the feature on “Back 2x” with Stove God Cooks who becomes the narration for the hook and verse where he illustrates, “We brought it back, back (We brought it back.) I dropped it in the pot, it came back, back. Soon as we unload this rental, we right back, back.”
Produced by Beat Butcha and Daringer, there is immediately a stance of being dipped in gold, reflecting with diamonds and rare stones as Benny The Butcher cracks through this frame to shatter the guise. It follows in a similar suit with “Tyson Vs. Ali” that has Conway The Machine jumping into the ring as these two heavyweights trade punches.
The beauty of cascading chimes while the low-tuned vocals of Benny and Conway make for a tag team that immediately instills confidence in the audience. Benny The Butcher especially here as he describes, “The bigger the paper, the longer the conversation. Played in the streets where the locks never come with no combination. If I let you get some money, don’t fuck up the operation. You know hood rules apply when it come to this kind of gangster.”
That same confidence taps into “Billy Joe” where the production from Alchemist is enough strength to tear through the record and platform that Benny stands upon. He cuts the vocals through and illustrates, “I’m one classic from great up amongst these rappers today. But I ain’t talked the kind of shit that I’m talkin’ til I had my weight up.”
Benny The Butcher uses “Billy Joe” as one of the last looks into the iris of crime and punishments, but more so the crime and rewards for it. Through the ugliness of street knowledge, Tana Talk 4 is heavenly and one more reason why the trio is more important than ever in hip-hop.
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STREAMING // (Album) Knxwledge. – “VGM. 17”
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Track List: Travlin, Lifeis, Myroom, Reasons, Allnight, Flame, Missdtrain, Buttrflies
STREAMING // (Video) Yung Lean – “Bliss”
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Featuring: FKA Twigs
Production Company: Object & Animal
Director: Aidan Zamiri
Exec Producer: Morgan Clement
Producer: James Graley
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SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “12/04/2022″
(Track) Jake Mason Trio – “Rib Eye”
(Video) Lightning Bolt – “Dead Cowboy @ TAICOCLUB 2014”
(Video) The Velvet Underground – “After Hours”
(Video) Mac Miller – “10 Years Of You”
(Video) A$AP Rocky – “Same Problems”
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