- Hip-hop
- Avant-hop
- Screwed and chopped
- Seapunk
- Cloud rap
- Wonky
- Vaporwave
- Experimental hip-hop
- Rap
- Urban music
Comment:
I could remember very clearly for those times when in the 90s there
were being huge problems to deal with dragging and broken tapes,
which did not play properly and did bend the normal appearance of
issues. Another problem was related to to the tapes being as long as
120 minutes and some of them even longer. For example, before
listening to the recent issue I had listened to Britpop juggernaut
Pulp’s retrospective issue Countdown 1992-1983 lasting
longer than 120 minutes and I sacrificed some hours of mine to save
the tape altogether. However, it was a nice warm-up to the recent one
because all had been changed since the 90s with regard to the
formats, styles and approach in music. Musically it is not surprising
at all that sort sort of technical failures are “legitimized” by
hip-hop music. The second biggest change is that no one could not
predict the fact that the mixtapes would be presented as issues in
the discography of imprints. For instance, the recent tape was issued
on Sincerely Yours. Because of the aforementioned reasons it chimes
in a thrilling way yet all those “failures” are integrated
seamlessly and represented in an elaborate way. Mostly those vocal
lines are slowed down (at times also being pitched up) and elegantly
stretched out to teeter in between stereo channels, however, at the
same time being spiced up with electronic effects and bumpy yet
enthrallingly lurking cadences. Frequently those layers are imbued
with spaced-out, dreamwave-alike vibes to give the whole a more
hyper-panoramic and still slightly eerie outlook. I was listening to
it in an early morning but I am convinced it could readily be your
supper before falling asleep. Indeed, the times have changed around
us and inside us but music is still being very attractive in its
various mutations thereby the musicians could be considered as
contemporary philosophers undoubtedly. Get this issue!