Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Ahmi - LOH

fromtheslums65Well folks, it's been over a month since our last post, so you know it had to be a special track to be able to drag us away from our crazy schedules. There's a word in french; "Doux" it means like gentle, warm or sweet (fyi I failed french so don't take my word on that) and once in a while I come across a track which likens to such explanation where all I can use to describe it is said word; and Ahmi's new track LOH fits this scenario perfectly.

You can try to pick apart the song, try to dig down deep to find the particular substance that causes this emotion in the listener, but it's quite the challenge I must warn you. For with some styles it's simple; one can easily point to the modulated basslines in generic dubstep, or the heavy 808's in 'real trap shit' (-__-) and say "there, that's the defining sound you have to go for." But as with a lot of Ahmi's work this is difficult; can one honestly put there finger of the diffinative part of this track?

The synth lines are mellow and warm, over a simple bass line, all gliding along chill trip-hop patterns that clock in at around a standard 120bpm; yet one still gets the feel that only Ahmi could have produced this track, and that if any other were to make the same track it would end up sounding different; the slight tribal feel to the percussion, the slight stuttering to the bass before the beat kicks in. These little things just scream under-rated, and it seems to be here where Ahmi tends to leave his most personal mark on his tracks, for only those chill enough to pick up on them.

1 comment:

  1. Ahmi is very singular in his work... its extremely hard to do what he does, the way he does it.

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