This
particular cassette begins with some beats and audio clips, and then it
continues in an electronic way that I have described before and feel has a term
designated specifically for it, but when I wondered whether or not I should
look it up I decided that I wouldn’t because I don’t care. Part of that is because of my general dislike
for genre labels and all (Using one word to describe a type of music can make
you lazy, as even two of the best in the seapunk genre- Astronautica and
Ultrademon- sound different in ways), but another big part of it is because it
feels a little bit dirty. You wouldn’t
ask someone what their nationality was, would you? I don’t know, maybe you would, but I wouldn’t. I’d use words to describe someone and those
adjectives would not include country of origin.
At
times, the music here within feels like the hip hop style of 2Pac on a song
like “Changes”. It also can cross over
into that jazz funk sound ala Us3 or A Tribe Called Quest. There are also these slower bits of acoustic
guitar that I want to call electro-sludge but sounds not as cool once I type
it. Through bits and pieces of piano,
something like an instrumental Everlast also can come out.
The
fact is, whether there are sound bites or simply another instrument or two
accompanying the beats, this has an overall feel of the type of beats that you’d
want to find on a cassette and that you definitely would have back before the
invention of the compact disc. So this just becomes another classic example
of great music made better by being listened on cassette.
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