My piece on AraabMuzik is up. Most people reading this are already familiar with my ongoing “dark dance music” thesis, so a lot of what I said in there isn’t exactly new, but mixing my bullshit with some stuff straight from AraabMuzik’s mouth is nice. Lots of people like me are talking this guy up now but I still don’t think he’s getting credit for just how well, on some other shit he is. Also, the live performances really are ridiculous. One of the most amazing shows I’ve ever attended. If he performs anywhere near you, go!
Abraham Orellana, a/k/a AraabMuzik, stands outside a nightclub in Greensboro, North Carolina. It’s late October, just a few days after his much-discussed performance at Santos’ Party House in Manhattan, and he’s ready to step on yet another stage and deliver yet another rousing performance on his MPC-2500 drum machine. The 21-year-old producer, known to Harlem rap enthusiasts as the mastermind behind Diplomats reunion track “Salute,” seemingly speaks only in topic sentences: “I’m an innovator,” he declares, with no affect whatsoever, staring from behind his sunglasses. (It’s been dark for a few hours now.) “I don’t even have a name for what I do.”Instead, the hip-hop noisenik’s ears are wide open, and he rolls whatever he hears into a one-of-a-kind mix of skittering hi-hats, sucking treble, and high-BPM assault. “I listen to everything,” he continues, phrasing that as a simple fact rather than a boast. “Everything from, like, Spanish songs all the way to rock and techno and trance. I just bunch it all up into one and come with something that’s not out yet.” Like “Salute,” a darker take on Jersey Shore rave-up music. Or “Let’s Talk,” from Duke Da God’s new Dipset compilation The D.I.P. Agenda, which turns the Alan Parsons Project’s “Let’s Talk About Me” into amphetamine-addled hip-hop. Or “Cuffin,” a standout from Dipset boss Cam’ron’s September album Heat in Here, built around an ominous squeak of synths, horror-flick atmospherics, and dense ’90s-hip-hop drums…
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