STREAMING // (Track) Luxury Elite – “Fascination”
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STREAMING // (Album) Evidence – “Unlearning Vol. 1”
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Featuring: Boldy James, Murkage Dave, Conway The Machine, Navy Blue, Fly Anakin
Track List: Better You, Start The Day With A Beat, Sharks Smell Blood, Pardon Me, All Of That Said, Won’t Give Up The Danger, Moving On Up, Talking To The Audience, All Money 1983, Pray With An A, Lost In Time (Park Jams), Delay The Issue, Taylor Made Suit, Where We Going From Here…
Misc. Day – Lords Of Wax
It’s been a long time coming since the Alabaman native Pink Siifu and the Richmond destroyer, Fly Anakin could collaborate once again on their 2021 production, $mokebreak.
The congruent effort from both parties is immediate to spark a spliff and create a cloud of being absent from reality. While the heads are in the sky, both Pink Siifu and Fly Anakin create moments of standing away from the register at their fantasy jobs of record stores and clerks, to being stars of a center stage of the sound.
Opening with “Oatmeal” as the first musical track, Fly Anakin begins orchestrating over this soulful bliss of an instrumental. The verse takes time to develop but uses the momentum not as dips into the ride, but more as a wave of sound to follow.
When the chorus that features both spitters hits, the momentum is cut like a loose child, becoming lost within itself and becoming immersed in smoke. While hard to find, the lucid ability is broken by the feature from Chuck Strangers who describes, “Maintaining balance, if niggas want static give ‘em channel four. I’m demanding more.” The Brooklyn rhymer taps into this vein that quickly forms a solid grip around the audience, giving little to no room to breathe and step away.
As $mokebreak continues on, tracks like “Good Word,” are more upbeat and give a better sense of orchestrating style and proactive power into forming a diverse stance. It is a fairly layered and intricate production where Pink Siifu is hidden behind these guises of glasses and a fog-filled room.
Much like Anakin, the verse comes to be “bets from the future” where the chips become stacked on the audience with enough power to become buried under the production. Much like the track “Blame” which is a personal standout for the instrumental. $mokebreak is a shortened project of only 10 tracks over 31 minutes, but “Blame” seems to last an eternity. The drained vocals are as if vinyl could be personified as a siren.
Leading both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu far from the lighthouse, the vocals in the background are a gem in this diamond farm. Over the three minutes, both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu are illustrative enough to hold the attention, without falling victim to the harsh waves that flood underneath.
A bleeding lord still can’t seem to die in $mokebreak’s sense. Whether combining to be a duo or standing solo, both Fly Anakin and Pink Siifu are treasures where sound conquers.
Listen To $mokebreak Here!!! – BandCamp/Spotify/iTunes
STREAMING // (Album) Kangding Ray – “Branches”
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Written + Produced By: David Letellier
Track List: Doppler Shift, Branches, Salt And Iron, Robust Version Nine, Digital Salt
SUNDAY SAMPLER // (Playlist) “07/04/2021″
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“A playlist of tracks that were featured on MattsMusicMine.com from the week of June 28th – July 4th. From Reviews to Streams, never miss a track with these playlists that are uploaded every single Sunday till I drop dead.”
Featuring: Nekra, LEATHERS, Kari Faux, Da$H, MIKE, Vince Staples, Vitamin, Tyler The Creator, Lil Uzi Vert, Pharrell Williams, Noctule, Future Disco, Peggy Gou, OHHYUK, Mini Skirt, 42 Dugg, Earth Boy Advance, King Woman, BONES, TSHA, NIMMO, Cloud Rat
Track List: Esquire, Trash, Reckless, Outta Sight, Walk The Plank, Spiral, LAW OF AVERAGES, Black Sheep, Jumping Jack, JUGGERNAUT, Wretched Abyss, Can’t Get Enough, Nabi, Brigantine St, LEMONHEAD, MASSA, City, Psychic Wound, ChatLog, CORSO, OnlyL, Mother Tongue – Glitter Belly
STREAMING // (Track) Cloud Rat – “Mother Tongue – Glitter Belly”
Listen Here – BandCamp
Drums + Electronics: Brandon Hill
Vocals: Madison Marshall
Guitar + Bass: Rorik Brooks
Engineered + Mixed By: Rorik
Mastered By: Glenn Schick
STREAMING // (Video) Tyler, The Creator – “CORSO”
Listen/Watch Here – Youtube
Director: WOLF HALEY
DP: LUIS PANCH PEREZ
Producer: TARA RAZAVI FOR HAPPY PLACE
New Music – The Fucking Progress
It is impossible to talk about the progression of an artist and to not bring up Tyler, The Creator, someone who is able to capture an audience as a shocking performer to now being a cultural hero for more than just the strange skater kids.
From the days of Flower Boy, to Igor, to now reaching Call Me If You Get Lost, there is an undeniable factor of progression and pushing a sound with sonic chord structure. The function in a transitional factor personally, Call Me If You Get Lost came at the perfect time to introduce the waterfalls of growth into more smiles and passport stamps.
Coming as the sixth studio record, there are moments of each of Tyler, The Creator’s records all pushed into one worldly ensemble. It is easy to be proud from the teenager posting on music forums to now running what becomes an empire. And with that empire comes the introspective maturity to flex a little, or a lot in this case.
In Tyler’s most cohesive project yet, Call Me If You Get Lost is honestly beautiful from a production standpoint. Tracks like “WUSYANAME” or “SWEET / I THOUGHT YOU WANTED TO DANCE” could be scored in the indie movie dreams of fields and rolling hills. Then pieces like “LUMBERJACK” with the features from DJ Drama shouting “CATCH UP NIGGAS” as Tyler delivers some of his most energetic performances yet.
Describing, “MSG sell out, fuck these yap ‘bout, whips on whips, my ancestors got they backs out,” Other moments like “MASSA” are less about the accolades and more about how far you can really take life especially when the second verse comes into the frame. Tyler illustrates, “I purchase more wheels when I feel like I’m third-wheelin’. My favorite part of the double R is the bird ceiling.”
The following piece, “RUNITUP” has a moment of spoken word from Tyler, The Creator where his vision and trust in himself becomes more and more clear with each release. Describing, “I always had confidence, I ain’t never been nervous, I ain’t never had anxiety, I ain’t never second-guessed myself. If I want it, I go get it, I’m always on go mode, I just go.” The features from DJ Drama only add to the hype and beauty as he shouts well over these warm horns and thumps of bass.
Only an introduction that gains into the personal favorite, “JUGGERNAUT” where the syncopated snare snaps that lead into the track are an opening to the gates of one of the most entertaining moments of Call Me If You Get Lost. Truthfully, the best verse comes from Pharrell off one line alone. He illustrates, “They just got the closet picture of the fuckin’ sun surface, that was us. Got the LaFerrari, park that bitch just for one purpose, catchin’ dust”
Basically, it is impossible not to smile on Call Me If You Get Lost and to feel this pride for the definition of a true visionary. Tyler, The Creator not only creates a desire to be associated but also a strive to do better for yourself.
Listen To Call Me If You Get Lost Here!!! – Spotify/Amazon/iTunes
STREAMING // (Track) Earth Boy Advance – “City”
Listen Here – BandCamp
STREAMING // (Album) Mini Skirt – “Casino”
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Recorded By: Owen Penglis
Assisted By: Mitch Parry
Mixed + Mastered By: Mikey Young
Track List: Pressure, Brigantine St, Give It Up, With Your Hands, Censorship, Face Of The Future, Pretty, FarKurnell, Tissue, Animals
STREAMING // (Track) Peggy Gou – “Nabi”
Listen Here – BandCamp
Classic Day – Spoonful Of Sugar
Even though it was released in 2021, the original recordings from Vitamin took place in 1981. The cleverly named record, Recordings 1981 is a 13 track mix of four studio tracks and nine tracks of live ensemble pieces.
The early DEVO-esque proto-sound is intriguing and sometimes, becomes comedic with the style of vocalization coming from basically children at the point of these recordings, the first real introduction to Vitamin comes from the track “Sarah’s Braid.”
The percussion which is shifty prays to the sky that is filled with scratchy guitars and an exorbitant amount of hiss to the bites from Vitamin. The four-piece on the mixes spawns from Jason Shapiro and Mike McGlinchey who maybe played an instrument for less than a year and in Recordings 1981, that style is prevalent. When Margie Politzer joined as the violinist and keyboardist, the band begins to take shape as the art-rock band of yesteryears’ dreams.
Other tracks like “Black Sheep” which later returns as a live version from The Underground which was a venue in Vitamin’s home of Boston. Chris Gill who follows in to conclude the percussion omits this frame of being fresh to the set but also gives a real rejuvenation to the instrument too. Most of Vitamin’s performance on Recordings 1981 can be articulated as raw vigor into the musical vein of sound.
Especially some of the live performances like “Mouse Trap” which was recorded again, at The Underground, and continues to give the idea of a basement or small staged show with kids stomping about for their friends. The low-fidelity recording is a god-send from the Boston wrecking crew, giving purpose to all those afterschool dreams of starting a band and eventually putting wax to the name.
While most of the lyrics are nearly impossible to decipher from the real unfiltered style of the recordings, almost every track on Recordings 1981 gives the isolative factor of youth in sound. The ideas, the progression, almost every element that Vitamin pushes forward just screams an experiment to sculpt sonic power under base components.
The drums are there, the bass and guitar, even the distinguishable vocals, almost everything that combines to be a cocktail for one of the more obscure punk loves of a local scene. A band gone simply too soon before they could flourish under the damp floorboards of some dive bar.
Listen To Recordings 1981 Here!!! – BandCamp/Spotify/iTunes
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(Track) Jake Mason Trio – “Rib Eye”
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