While
it might seem easiest to describe nightsmoke as hip hop, there are underlying
qualities to this music that might make you think otherwise. Sure, the beats are rocking and steady, but
typically when you hear such beats as these you think of some form of machine
making them and for the most part this sounds as if it is being created with an
actual drum kit.
Through
audio clips we get a sample of an acoustic song as well as another little
number I like to call “I Hate All of You”.
There are also some tones that join the beats and just produce a vibe
unlike any other I have felt when listening to what is hip hop in nature.
There
is a line repeated on this cassette that says “The flesh knows that it suffers
even when the mind does not”. It so
perfectly sums up this entire cassette that I can’t believe it is so blatantly
staring at me. The idea of it is that
you can hear this as hip hop, and as any number of other artists putting out
such excellent beats, yet it does not sound exactly like any of them
specifically.
So
you should be able to recognize this as hip hop, the way you would recognize a foreign
car as an automobile, but it does not have a source to trace it back to such as
you would say, “I know that’s a car, but I’m not sure the make or model”. The mystery in that sense just adds to the
overall experience of this and only makes it that much more enjoyable.
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