LP Fat Possum, 2024
featuring Luke Stewart, Mekala Session, billy woods, Jon Nellen, August Fanon, Child Actor, Saint Abdullah, Alan Duggan, Samiyam, Andrew Broder, The Lasso, DJ Haram
Style: Hip-Hop (Abstract, East Coast, Experimental), Illbient, influenced by Post-Punk, Noise Rock, Industrial
Vibes: Cryptic, Visceral, Menacing, Surreal, Philosophical, Brooding, Gritty, Raw, Futuristic, Haunting, Cerebral, Introspective, Rebellious, Dystopian, Eerie, Conscious, Abstract, Dark, Mystical, Suspenseful, War
Musical Qualities: Sampling, Lyrical, Noisy, Dense, Polyrhythmic, Percussive, Overdriven Bass Lines, Headphone Album
Instrumentation: Rap, Drums, Electric Bass, Synthesizers, Processed Vocals, Sampler, Turntable, Percussion, Electric Guitar
Track Notes ( * = Recommended )
| A1 – The World is Dog (urban, gritty, observational, dystopian, philosophical)-warped voices, catchy post-punk drums & bass-Psychedelic Post Punk with hip hop production & rapping |
| *A2 – CCTV (Visceral, Heavy)-dark cavernous sounds > noisy guitar stabs-fast car sounds “on the expressway”-menacing reflective lyrics, like spiritual chaos warfare-“Tell me your lie, tell me you truth…”-brooding Creature verse. “angel with wings clipped”-grimy bass licks>Beat Switch Outro- reflective, mellow beat-“all power to oppressed people” |
| *A3 – Yottabyte–head nodding drum beat and off kilter piano sample, polyrhythmic -great flow on the lyrics -short but substantial |
| *A4 – Bad Pollen ft billy woods (reflective, heartfelt) -warbly drum & piano loop, dusty soul vocal chop in another language (arabic) -reflective, personal woods verse gentle singing for the hook, “look in the fire” |
| *A5 – Slum of a Disregard ft Luke Stewart & Mekala Session -heavy drums in left ear and weird sounds in right -fucked up bassline burst in and out -background vocal samples -so many ideas…crazy bitches brew bassline, amidst urban chaos, class war in the streets. drums flipping from left to right “my landlord’s a zionist” |
| A6 – RFID (brief, fuzzy, introspective) -filters washing in and out. sample sounds like its from the 1940s or something -fuzzy bass drones -“why play if I can’t bend the rules?” “if its war I know where to dig, if its love i know where to lay”“in this frame within myself, push the line, divide the dead” |
| *A7 – Instant Transfer ft billy woods (futuristic, groovy, stoned) -heavy slow trap beat (prod by Samiyam)-deep bass. spacey synth melody-low key, stoned, cerebral vibe to the verses. -great groove to this one, the slow tempo allows for so many micro-rhythmic elements in the spaces between beats |
| **A8 – Ikebana (polyrhythmic, spacey, futuristic, determined, existential, philosophical) -spacey transmission > menacing drums & percussion -“I feel like everybody knew but me” -atmospheric spacey interlude, ethereal melodies (flute, keys sax) appear in both right and left channels > back into original heavy beat |
| *B1 – In the Shadow of If (hypnotic, psychedelic, groovy) -woozy, druggy beat. -great basslines, distant guitars. groovy “seeing all those flags made me nervous…” |
| B2 – SKP (woozy, slow, sensual, futuristic, surreal) -hypnotized by “Some kinda Power” |
| B3 – Hushpuppies -playful, off kilter beat -alliterations -“must find fried fish its friday…” etc |
| *B4 – 14.4 (ethereal, surreal, psychedelic, mysterious) -ethereal high bassline, cool loops -echo sounds (percussion, trumpet, keyboards, samples) -sermonizing poetic verse by SKECH185 |
| B5 – Voice 2 Skull-Blaxploitation-soundtrack inspired beat-retro sounds through a futuristic filter-“I’m too old to comfortable rock logos”-abrupt cut out |
| *B6 – Xolo-ethereal guided meditation intro > shadowy beat-voices floating from side to side. |
| *B7 – Zigzagzig-menacing beat with dub fx-woozy synths |
2020s, 2024, Abstract, Abstract Hip-Hop, Beats, Brooding, Cerebral, Cold, Collage, Complex, Confident, Conscious, Conscious Hip-Hop, Cryptic, Dark, Death, Dense, Drums, Dystopian, East Coast, Electric Bass, Elucid, Experimental Hip-Hop, Fat Possum, Futuristic, Fuzzy, Gritty, Haunting, Headphone Album, Heartfelt, Hip-Hop, Industrial Hip-Hop, Innovative, layered, Lyrical, Masculine, Menacing, Mystical, New York, Noisy, Percussion, philosophical, Political, Polyphonic, Polyrhythmic, Post-Production, processed Vocals, Progressive, Progressive Hip-Hop, Psychedelic, Raw, rebellious, Reflective, Rhythmic, Sampler, Sampling, Surreal, Suspenseful, Synthesizers, Technical, Tribal, Turntable, Visceral, War
