- Alternative
- Footwork
- Deep house
- Crossover
- Hip-hop
- Chopped
and screwed
- Drone
- Electronic music
- Cloud rap
- Urban music
Comment: this
12-track issue is one of the most playful issues I have heard in the
recent year. And along with such releases as
End Game by Aigar
Vals,
Rites by Eoins,
bizarre world of non by Day Of
The Triangle,
OtherWorld by Mart Avi, and
Threnody to Smaug
by Ratkiller it can be admitted that Eleonora Šljanda aka Tsantser`s
issue
Tot Nodig (
until needed in Flemish) is another
outstanding issue by an Estonian artist. She has been studying
graphic design in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and partly to
playfulness and partly to her rich imagination to be fostered by her
studies (obviously the former thread is also implicated by the latter
one). She is also being known as DJ I guess her playing subject may
have been hip-hop and its bent subgenres like footwork, chopped and
screwed, cloud rap, seapunk. Without any doubt she also showcases her
DJ abilities over there. In fact, all these styles are boldly
represented over there with an uncanny kind of synthesiser music,
serpentine deep house interludes, and even spoken word snippets,
samples, a bit obsessive, loop-arrested drone music (more remarkably,
at
Tekk). In truth, beyond all of that much interesting
elements one can meet while listening to this 48-minute course.
Despite its variegated nature all the elements are adeptly fulfilled
and constitute an adhesive whole. It is also sympathetic (and one of
the premises of the success of the issue) that she consciously
rejected any concepts while had been creating her debut album (it was
also published in a very limited tape edition). Honestly, at times I
am sick of all of that theoretical crap surrounding a piece of art
(however, it is a matter of choice – a visitor/listener can choose
the possibility to just avoid the wordy frame of a piece of art). As
I have already noticed it will be added to the list of the best
albums 2018 at RMH.
