Thursday, May 16, 2013

The SHRNK - As If

We can be honest here, right? 

Cause in truth, there's a lot of hard shit out there when it comes to bass music....like, a lot......

But when it comes to our little scene in particular there's this second wave that's been rising up slightly behind the darker beat-makers, a sound I'm hearing more and more as of late, tracks flush with chillness of pretty epic proportions; with these multi-layered pads atop of these lightly bouncing bass-lines, to the point where it's, honestly, just too fucking trill to be labeled Ambient so I'm gonna call it Ill-bient (if you'll allow me to dust off an old phrase). Because when I play these tracks for friends they consistently have this look on their faces like "...dude.......shit's audio sex..."

So all of this brings us around to why I'm excited about posting this brand new track from The SHRNK. Cause this kid's pretty fucking ill; a producer that could easily grow to be the next crooklyn ambassador to the island, our generation's Old Dirty Bastard. (i know, i know... but with this kid's affinity for drug-use and party-life, that's actually not so much of a stretch; go listen to his track "xanny" if you don't believe me)

We have to admit, these days it is more and more the producers that enter the spotlight, whether or not they're from the world of rave-bangers for EDM or the world of beatmaking for Hip-hop (or inhabit that weird unnamed crossover space in between) the fact is that the Jersey Club sound that threw shit like "Harlem Shake" and "Trapstep" up into huge popularity came from the DJs of our area, not the MCs.

So I think it's safe to say that these alternative tracks that I'm hearing are definitely taking their place in the overarching sound of (whatever the fuck) this scene is turning out to be, and personally I'm getting bass-head chills mixing some of this softer wave (some of Phranq's tracks, TST's new single, etc) with the sick foot-stomping shit (basically any Skifcha track...) Like a Yin to the darker shit's Yang they mesh well together, because they're still inherently "bass music"

But it's giving depth to bass music, feel me?

AS IF (COCAINE) by The SHRNK

Tuesday, May 7, 2013

Shaolin Squad x Ded Beatz - Jwenn Ba VIP

Have you ever wanted to play a track that undeniably proves to someone you have unorthodox taste in music? 

Well then you should probably go download Jwenn Ba VIP (which apparently means "Get Low" in creole) because it is without-a-doubt that track in a nutshell. It slaps you across the face from the very first second, as trip-hop vocals mesh over pounding 808s and deep southern rap samples; the kind of track only heard in the most fucked-up parties, the deepest underground bass sessions. 

But how did this monster come into existence you might ask? Well, S.I.’s home team Shaolin Squad got together with a trapstar from Cali by the name of Ded Beatz; and between the two of them produced probably one of the weirdest trap tracks we’re going to hear for while… 

But then again, maybe not; maybe trap music as a whole is getting stranger, as more and more people tire of the standard laser-y “bangers” on YouTube every week, made by the same Flosstradamus and Brillz copies we’ve heard all throughout 2012. Maybe this year shit’s gonna get fuckin psychedelic and trippy as trap music takes a turn for the original… 

God, I hope so…