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12/15/2018

Tsantser – Tot Nodig (2018)




  • 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.