Tag: Tree

• March 5, 2021

  A Thousand Points of Sound: Bandcamp Day Picks

  by Dan-O
• June 5, 2020

  #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…
• June 5, 2019

  #BandcampGold-Never Hated I Just Waited by Chris Crack

  #BandcampGold-Never Hated I Just Waited by Chris Crack by Dan-O Best way to think of Chicago Rap is like one of those old Shaw Brothers martial arts films. Surreal things happen, good and evil magic. Different clans represent divergent schools of thought with powers and weaknesses as specific as they are out of this world.…
• March 7, 2015

  Mixtape Review: Trap Genius by Tree

  Mixtape Review: Trap Genius by Tree by Dan-O Sunday School 2: When Church Lets Out is what broke Tree wide open for the tastemakers. The funny part about this is they all had a shot at falling in love with him on the first Sunday School. That’s when I dove in with both feet (along with…
• May 24, 2014

  Mixtape Review-Trybecca by Death By Icon

  Mixtape Review-Trybecca by Death By Icon by Dan-O In order for a region to maintain a trademark sound it not only needs to stay in close connection with it (not abandon it when the spotlight moves on) but challenge it with variation. Chicago established a bleak toughness as its modern sound when drill invaded everyone’s…
• February 8, 2014

  Mixtape Review-White America by Blanco Caine

  Mixtape Review-White America by Blanco Caine by Dan-O The song Club Money off Blanco Caine’s mixtape White America begins with a clip of someone explaining the racial inequality of the prison systems in America and then a frantic drum pattern begins and lyrics where girls are getting buck naked for money. Someone in the background…
• May 21, 2013

  Sunday School 2 mixtape review

  Sunday School 2 mixtape review by Dan-O When Tree dropped Sunday School it proved to be the debut of a completely unique artist. He followed that by producing a compilation with himself featuring Chicago artists that didn’t get talked about nearly enough. So now that Tree has followed his MTV-approved Sunday School with a sequel,…
• January 16, 2013

  A story of two compilatio​ns

  A story of two compilatio​ns by Dan-O Try to remember the last hip hop compilation album anyone was impressed by. The Self-Made series just seem to highlight how artificially put together MMG feels, if you go back to the G-Unit compilation it was the first indicator of how limited G-unit was conceptually. Preconceptions destroy the compilation;…
• October 24, 2012

  Tree Sunday School deluxe edition mixtape review

  Tree Sunday School deluxe edition mixtape review by Dan-O Tree is someone you are going to absolutely love or despise. For a lot of people the kind of guttural vocal performance found on his new mixtape Sunday School will be linked to the movement of chorus dependent trap rap(in the Chief Keef realm) that seem…