Tag: #BandcampGold
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#BandcampGold-Midnight Sons by Zilla Rocca and DJ Chong Wizard
by Dan-O Zilla Rocca doesn’t believe in perfect idols but he believes in surviving the right way. If you go back to 2018’s Hard Boiled ep he phrases it very concisely “We’ve all given half to the hand in our face. We’ve all taken stones from the holiest place.(Run Rabbit Run)” The world runs schemes on us […]
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#Bandcampgold-Little Dominiques Nosebleed by The Koreatown Oddity
by Dan-O I really felt like Little Dominiques Nosebleed was too much. I was especially intimidated when I found out that The Koreatown Oddity had produced it all himself. It wasn’t until my third listen I realized that it feels like too much on purpose. Five of the sixteen songs have multiple guests. Attention Challenge […]
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#Bandcampgold-Eastern Medicine, Western Illness by Preservation
by Dan-O The intangible brilliance in a producer is being able to arrive at and capture the very best of an artist. It’s a combination of casting the right voices on your songs and making sure you give the audience the very height of what they bring to the table. That is the true victory […]
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#BandcampGold-Heaven To A Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor
#BandcampGold-Heaven To A Tortured Mind by Yves Tumor by Dan-O The reason Heaven To A Tortured Mind is labeled as an experimental album is that the sounds increase, explode or escape when you least expect them to. It is NOT an experimental album in the sense of existing as some sort of noise research data. Yves […]
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The 2019 album I Missed Out On
The 2019 Album I Missed Out On by Dan-O By the time I named Griselda the 2019 MVP I was dead focused on the four members on the T-Shirt: Benny The Butcher, Westside Gunn, Daringer and Conway The Machine. What I missed: Griselda exists within an ecosystem of ILL New York rappers who grow and […]
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#BandcampGold-1990 by Amerigo Gazaway & Xiomara
#BandcampGold-1990 by Amerigo Gazaway & Xiomara by Dan-O I used to burn cd compilations of 90’s R & B. They were semi-notorious amongst my crew (Army stuff). I called the series “Booty Music” because the 90’s were the first decade where the music said what it meant. As richly political and social as 70’s R […]
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#Bandcampgold-Green Parakeet Suite by Davis
#Bandcampgold-Green Parakeet Suite by Davis by Dan-O Chance The Rapper mocks 90’s hardcore hip hop in a way that ruffles my feathers. He clowns 90’s Gangsta Rap for being full of phony tough guys acting the part. He’s making the point that being genuinely silly or conscious is better than being artificially thug but that’s […]
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#Bandcampgold-Best U.K. Albums of 2019
#Bandcampgold-Best U.K. Albums of 2019 by Dan-O As Americans we too often turn a blind eye to other countries contributions to artistic forms we start. This is odd because the world often welcomes our contributions(Kurasawa turned Westerns into Samurai movies and we turned that into Star Wars). U.K. rap has gone through its own growth […]
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#Bandcampgold-That’s The World by Anti-Lilly and Phoniks
#Bandcampgold-That’s The World by Anti-Lilly and Phoniks by Dan-O Being a philosophical person isn’t that fun. It’s thousands of persisting strands of concern intersecting and reproducing. This is part of the reason that dumb rappers tend to make albums that are more fun (depends on how you define fun). Fake deep hits the listeners sweet […]
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#BandcampGold-New American Frontier by The Trusty Snakes
#BandcampGold-New American Frontier by The Trusty Snakes by Dan-O Alright, I don’t like the new Bruce Springsteen album Western Stars. We’re all supposed to. Bruce stepped back into his Country/Folk style this year in a very post-Sturgill Simpson way. The album is better than some of his recent work but the basic problem I have is […]
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