Heavy bars and equally heavy, haunting production creates a strong balance between classic and contemporary hip hop throughout Elles-Moca’s latest anthem.
Music
Great song-writing, a softly passionate delivery, all blended with unusual sound-design for a truly interesting and also decidedly unique hit of artistry.
Fascinating stories, imagery that provokes imaginative escapism, musicianship that’s second to none and authentically passionate, even in such precision.
Shmaxi makes music from the heart, and from the depths of a creatively pure mind, and it works well to engage a new audience.
Featuring an immediately warm, echoing rhythm, alongside dashes of horn and lighter Glock-style melodies, the music has an instant sense of creative freedom and identity to it.
Creative production and contemporary trap rhythms meet with an equally modern auto-tune lead and a refreshingly emotive storyline and melody – Dat Dude and 5tr3 get conceptual and ambient with Drip.
Life-time culture shifting painter Ruby Mazur gloriously revisits his 1971 Mouth & Tongue symbol from The Rolling Stones Tumbling Dive record sleeve, for a 50 year anniversary.
The sound is unique in every way, not least of all structurally as these various sections evolve from genre to genre and chaos to calm.
Ultimately tackling the issue of loss, separation and overcoming, the song leads with a creative edge that quickly sets a dark and intriguing mood.
Ambient jazz with a trip hop pulse from way back when, organic layers of guitar interwoven with dreamy synth for a smoothly hypnotic dose of escapism – 57th Street takes you there with ease.
A deeply thoughtful track, with dashes of uncertainty, conceptual insecurity, reflected both lyrically and in the changing chord patterns.
Unpredictable yet well-rooted in its experimental and contemplative nature, Ahead Of Time is a brilliantly unique project, from an act with the sort of artistry and energy once blended by the likes of Massive Attack.