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izzi on an island

I’m going to welcome myself back after a couple month hiatus. *Welcome back, me!*

Sorry about that. It won’t happen again, I promise. Now on to the point of what I’m doing here.

So I’ve been searching for some good things to review and have come up short on a lot of fronts and that may or may not have been why this has taken so long. Okay, it’s got some accountability but the rest is pure…

falling in luv with arbour

arbour describes himself as sad (among other things that we’ll discuss later) and honestly, luv songs kinda bums me out.

But I’m bummed in a good way.

The first track is called “elusive” which is the opposite of how it feels. You can almost physically grasp the emotion. It’s loaded with subtleties that fill the empty spaces. You can hear what sounds like wind chimes towards the beginning but…

“You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative” – Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs.

mt. marcy’s naked lunch ep is a wavy, fragmented and somewhat sporadic lo-fi mix of tracks. It lacks coherency and that’s on purpose. If you’ve ever read Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs, you know the novel…

The State of Trip-Hop

So, Trip-Hop has an origin around late 80’s hip-hop along with DJs, MCs, and b-boysgetting mixed up with the Jamaican dub and house scene in Bristol, UK. They mingled and formed “soundsystems” (which is a pretty dope name if you ask me). Soundsystems were created in Jamaica in the 50’s to identify a group of DJs work collectively to produce and contribute to a sole sound. With all of these…

Hollowed by Ital Tek

Ital Tek first emerged on the scene in 2006 as a dubstep/IDM producer with a play into darker sounds. Influenced by the likes of Aphex Twin on one of his first EPs (which you should definitely check out because it’s filled with Arnold Schwarzenegger samples). Hollowedis Ital Tek’s 10th full length record and it shows his maturity through the use of darker, metallic, and almost machine-esque…

Meseta Review & a brief history of Chillwave

So, let’s start with a bit of background. I started as a musician but slowly turned into a music lover/enthusiast. My best friend taught me how to first play the guitar back in ’08-’09. He taught me how to (incorrectly) play Seven Nation Army and apparently I can’t let go of the fact that I corrected him on how to play it to this day. Anyways, I was your typical,…