♫♪  AF THE NAYSAYER - “Status”

In the hyper-drive of our incessant music sharing, I’ve been thinking a lot about what the “righteous musician” might look like these days. As insane as our ears tend to be in 2015, there’s a gentle joy in hearing about how a producer teaches young men and women how to produce their own music [via Upbeat Music Academy], or how a workshop at Moog provided some fresh eyes to check out and DL their first trial of Ableton. It’s the little things. And, regardless of how much we love having the wool pulled over our eyes — sometimes music serves the often surprising role of uniting us, even helping us to celebrate our humanness.

Lousiana-based mindkiller AF THE NAYSAYER is doing just that all over the east coast right now, sharing his brand of lurching, head-nodding beat-craft from NOLA to NYC. His brand is the particular headspace between G-funk and that west coast technicolor instrumentalism that Adult Swim helped proliferate through the Fly Los and Spazzkids of the world. With “Status,” AF let’s the rhythm break into a DJ Shadow sort of crunch; the loop zones out into warbling synths as the ride descends into sublime, chill enviros.

Scope the grained-out video above that sees the track backing a timeless ritual.

• AF THE NAYSAYER: http://selfeducatedvinyl.bandcamp.com/album/the-autodidact-instrumentals…

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