Yeah pretty sure the mix is (mostly) untreated, but the individual pieces are just really immaculately selected and mixed imo
oh yeah definitely i was just making sure i wasn't missing anything. the first two tracks were somewhat grating or maybe i wasn't quite sunk into the mood yet, plus that weird minimal techno-ish thing they inserted in the middle of the mix is kinda weird, but i'm glad you brought this to my attention
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that weird minimal techno-ish thing they inserted in the middle of the mix is kinda weird
Yeah that was my impression at first, but after a few listens I've kinda come to appreciate it in context; being that it's influenced by and samples examples of the music dominating most of the mix, I feel like that placing of gamelan and similar styles in a musical context more familiar to my western brain helps me appreciate the more purely Southeast Asia portions better, and it also gives a cool kinda time lapse sensation? (of sth)
The Epic is certainly Kamasi's breakthrough album, but it's not his debut, he's got other stuff (that I admittedly haven't heard.)
As for the Petite Noir album, I keep telling myself I have to listen to it. I've only heard good things about it.
I have a couple "debuts" I really like that probably don't actually count as debuts. Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment's Surf is great, and it is both the first Donnie Trumpet and the first Social Experiment album, but most of the buzz surrounding it is because of Chance's association and he's done other stuff (although I guess everything else he's done has been a mixtape.) Car Seat Headrest's Teens of Style really feels like a debut even though the guy has a million bandcamp albums, and it is a label debut. Viet Cong is next in line, but several of the members came from the band Women so they've worked on full lengths before. In Colour is a solo debut, but again probably shouldn't count. I guess that means my favorite definitely debut album of the year is this...
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