Listening to the Zone 2 tape last weekend actually really sank in what Trilliam was indicating w/ the Cloud Rap invocations which helped me recontextualize both the East Coast producers identified w/ the label as well as the Road Rap production aesthetic.
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Boy that 0:45 moment when the distortion and warping. Carns Hill >>> William Basinski. It's basically a return to the ideas he did on "Today" and "Hookahs" to a lesser degree, which felt sadly like a weird flukish thing for a while.
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Trilliam and most genre fans are big on the Kwengface kid and it makes sense, he's got a sneery wit to him, but it misses more than it hits imo. The interesting development of the 2nd wave of UK Drill (1st wave being your Mdarggs, 67s..) is just how much there's a brattiness rather than the stern straightforward projections of strength and hardness. Loski, Kwengface, AM... They have an almost effete air of knowing they're smarter than their foes. AM in particular, dropping his name in binary code or doing all these other strange gimmicks in his Charlie Sloth freestyle. Clearly a guy who likes to let people know he Thinks about Things (meanwhile Skengdo is just happy to be here).
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