other life can probably give a better answer since i've also only heard a fraction of his output. i just think he's probably the most interesting exponent of that sort of music i've come across. the "twee" trap is impressively un-cringe, executed with so much style and confidence that it somehow works. and that's only one corner of what he does. the mashup stuff is really varied and colorful, ranging from amped and abrasive to calming and sweet. at times you also get this dance-music-treated-as-silly-putty approach that harkens back to what i love about old hip hop and idm--but it unmistakably came about from absorbing the 2010s, not the 80s or 90s.
basically i don't know if buum will turn out to be a favorite of mine or not, i just get the same feeling i've often had at first with my eventual-favorite artists: that they're successfully navigating through an expansive, turbulent sea of possibility based on internalized principles that are invisible to everyone else.
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'the twee trap is impressively un-cringe' - i think it's even unfair to call it 'twee trap', even if his relationship to 100 gecs, reptilian club boyz, hexd and other rym spawned microgenres/mis-genres is much less antagonistic than mine.
it's neither twee nor trap without being 'against' either twee or trap - it's New York Rap in the lineage of the dipset and the terror squad. there's character and distinction to every vocal cut of his, imo.
there's also a lot going on the Texts of his raps which sets them apart, which i thought dissensus would be down to play with.
you have to remember he survived TUMPLE/Daylife Army.
as mcrumps put it, he was literally 'trapped inside a meme'.
two people (eben carlson and kimbery malone, 'wiz and koa') who sought out young producers digital artists and Posters -to neg them- (this happened to me) started a cult with buum as the first recruit and chief recruiter.
peoples diets and movements and sources of income were strictly controlled, they groomed people to do Thelema style sex magick and to prostitute themselves.
TUMPLE was the last cult and the first of something else entirely.
there's a sense of secrets being thrown open and a link to the Holy Spirit if you look at/listen to the words of this music. buum is by his own admission 'an occultist'
here's a private playlist of my favorite vocal cuts of his, 36 tracks 2 hours (his two best vocal cuts are unreleased, though [copy and remove the space])
https://soundcloud.com/auriburners/ sets/buum-vocal-music/s-ur63a0Sogmz
'dance music treated as silly putty - this is precisely it, also. this is what i was getting at with that 'daft punk alive 2007 but with all recorded music' pull quote, and 'the long buum' is the best exponent of this. he has predecessors in this respect in ryan hemsworth, heat wave/dpi, dj yo yo dieting, the bootleg tapes label (especially CLEANERS), &c&c&c
'successfully navigating through an expansive, turbulent sea of possibility based on internalized principles that are invisible to everyone else.' - this also gets at it. as i mentioned, buum is a self described occultist. it's frustrating that he only articulates what these internalised principles precisely are really in closed conversations, or to the extent he's publicly articulated them they are now buried under tons of other posts. when i log back into twitter i can find his 'dark romanticism' thread which hints at some of these.
he is convinced there is something to objectively 'get' in all music and all art, is the thing. he believes that color can be mapped to tone, -objectively-. he believes that language has an undertow, that misapprehension of speech and writing is productive of understanding, and that, viewed from the side of Heaven, folly is under the domain of and provided for by Wisdom.
for my part, i hope he's correct.