Tuning into this new GRISFX reminds me that hi-hats, like trees, are everywhere. They breathe a life into music that would otherwise be too slow, too ambient, too uncultured, too suburban, too small town. Add a hi-hat and all of a sudden you’re in an apartment on the outskirts of the city with a landlord that eats lo mein with chopsticks dipped in gold. Add a hi-hat and all of a sudden you’re gazing at the blizzard density of Reddit, scanning posts for lyricism and gentleness. A brilliant arpeggio there, a brilliant chord combination here. Vapor turns into ice, ice into water, water pours on the earth, the earth gets hot from the sun and the trees light that shit up on fire, leaving a scathing wind to transfer the ashes into the city, blowing them into the crevices of a drum machine. And there I am, exiting the deli with a fluid resistant face mask, thinking about the politics of the situation and how to contemplate my misshapen happiness. I’m thinking about how vaporwave has turned into an online community: how the same drum racks a beat maker in Atlanta uses for a banger in the strip club can also be utilized in a vaporwave track about how awesome it was to be 9 years old and watch anime while dunking Oreos in milk. This fact spreads into my pores like a marvelous antidote, keeping me alive with Jello-like consistency.
• GRISFX: https://soundcloud.com/grisfx
• AMDISCS: Futures Reserve Label: http://amdiscs.com
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