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