Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018 (2019) Genre: Sound Collage, Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Plunderphonics, Hypnagogic Pop Artwork: Bolade Banjo Bandcamp
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Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016-2018 (2019) Genre: Sound Collage, Experimental Hip Hop, Abstract Hip Hop, Plunderphonics, Hypnagogic Pop Artwork: Bolade Banjo Bandcamp
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slauson malone - The Wake Pt. 3 & 2 (see page 87, 58, and 48)
𝐈 𝐒𝐄𝐄 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃! 𝐑𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨, 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐎𝐟 𝐂𝐚𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫🗡️
Aired 02.09.23
Featuring music from Injury Reserve, Joe Glass, Radiohead and more.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Music.
If you think this is about you, it probably is.
I have yet to feel worse than the day my closest friend betrayed the trust I had in her. (Woah getting personal today aren't we). I find it funny I started making these mixes for my friends and she was the first one to get one, and now almost two years later am doing much more with it.
Beginning with the first three songs, I tried to capture the three main themes throughout the set. "The Inflated Tear" by Rahsaan Roland Kirk was used in the movie "Judas and The Black Messiah" which I find fitting to start a set about betrayal with a song that was used thematically throughout a movie about betrayal. My feelings about everything, to this day, confuse me. Half of me tries to move on, while the other one is still angry. Although the song "u" is about Kendrick Lamar's own internal turmoil. If you turn the second verse onto someone else, or the beginning of the third verse, the verses mirror the same turmoil I felt when I heard about all the things she told my friends. Everything I do, I do with intention. With these sets, I often recontextualize music, and give it new meaning. Which sounds like a pretentious way of making playlists, but I don't see it that way.
It was around September I was able to get over everything that happened. There was this vulnerability, which is expressed in "Time" by George Riley, that I began to feel.
"I'm very protective over my space I don't let no one in unless I'm satisfied they're good and humble Don't like to mingle with the fickle and fake"
I love how this song starts, there's a lot of rock/indie songs in here with guitars/strings being the main instrument. It helps with the cohesiveness of the whole set itself. I'm not an avid Radiohead listener, but the song, even with its clear message of finding real friends, these particular set of lyrics, remind me of the stupidity of it all.
"They brought in the CIA The tanks and the whole marines To blow me away To blow me sky high"
I saw Joe Glass preform "Slither" live last week on Two Faced Radio. (Thursdays from 3PM-5Pm right after my show ;) ) Seeing his fingers dance on the neck of his guitar in person really cemented my love for this song.
"Was there nothing he could Do to make her stay?"
There was a point where I didn't really care about what happened. I was more caught up in salvaging the friendship then realizing how bad it was. Looking back at it now, it was her way of ending our friendship, maybe out of spite, or maybe something else. It was about half a year of uncomfortable conversations that made me feel worse.
The downside of becoming so close to someone, is how intertwined they become with your own life. Our lives began to intersect everywhere. For a long time I wondered what would I say when I would see her. I realized after a while, I really didn't want to say anything. They probably would not mean the same to her anyways.
My American Life, Brockhampton
"And I got nothing to give, that's why I made you this tape I been climbin' this wall, how much more can I take? Sometimes I think about dyin', but then I think of those days Sometimes I wish we could speak, but I have nothing to say"
Bust, Lomelda
"I thought of so many things To say to you, to you But what were they What were they What were they to you, to you"
Reflecting back on it all. What happened, and our friendship. I began to realize that it wasn't as healthy as I thought it was. Ironically, I put this in a mix I made her right after everything happened. But I realize now what Clairo meant in "Little Changes" by singing:
"He loved me good enough to calm me down But tried to trick me into little changes
I see the end before it begins"
I have a photo wall in my room. With pictures of my friends and family. She's in a few. There's a few with other friends that have faded. On a call once with my friend, I asked him, "I should take these down shouldn't I?" What he said to me has stuck to me even till now. "You can still be happy with the good memories you have."
"But white noise comes from nothing at all And finally I feel Good Good to fall between The ones I love and the ones that faded"
The vulnerability I'm trying to express, where I'm trying to figure out how to express is hard to put into words. I feel like it's just plain corny. But sometimes the most clear way to express is just being honest about.
Personally, Omar Apollo
"Too many people I don't see no more Too many feelings I don't feel no more 'Cause I really don't wanna be here alone Too many people I don't need no more So many doubts that I stop keeping score"
I could go on and on about "Glory", from the way Hodge censors himself, to his mention of Jesus. But I own three frogs, and so all I have to mention from this song is this line:
"Dissecting my life apart like a frog with no ribbit"
I just recently got into beabadoobee, "broken cd" repeats the whole mixtape theme I have going on. Though I'm the only one who really understands that with the way I make connections in these playlists.
I go back in forth with my feelings about the whole situation. But for the most part I kept quiet about it.
TO FEEL ALIVE, Kali Chis
"I let them crucify me I kept my head down, humble Some people get their kicks just steppin' on your dreams, I know it"
I remember when “Non Voglio Mai Vedere Il Sole Tramontare” was released, Caroline Polachek had announced it saying it was out of character for her. It doesn’t surprise me she can sing opera so well. (Its to my understanding an opera about Kurt Cobain’s last days.) The translation of the title is “I Never Want to See the Sun Go Down.”
“Outside” by Injury Reserve is the opening track for the album By The Time I Get To Phoenix. Setting the scene for the feeling of the album. Theres a line where Ritchie with a T raps,
“Got my skeletons, you've got yours But let's be honest here This, this don't end with agree and disagree That ain't possible There's just some things There's just some things that ain't right"
There was this one conversation I had with her, trying to understand why she switched up on me so suddenly and I realized there was no way it was going to end with us being as close as we had been just a week before.
“The Wake Pt. 3 & 2” by Slauson Malone calls back to the trumpets from “The Inflated Tear” and the strings heard throughout the set like in “Slither”. Though the lyrics remind me of one of the last real conversations I had with her.
“I know, you know I'll be at your wake, in the waves”
After writing this all, I realize this is not about a friend betraying you. Rather it's a set that encapsulates the aftermath of it all. The painting I chose for the Apple Music cover, "The Death of Caesar" by Jean-Léon Gérôme, captures not the assassination of Julius Caesar itself, but rather the immediate aftermath. It seems like a much more fitting cover now.
When Caesar was murdered, his killers say they murdered him because they feared his dictatorship was undermining the Roman Republic. But they were unable to restore the institutions of the Republic.
I find that parallel to my own life. As her actions led to the end of our friend group. Ending much more than she anticipated.
Medhane - Trauma & Grace (Own Pace, 2019)
Produced by Caleb Giles & Slauson Malone
“In between tomorrow and today Sunshine and i’m in the shade Stress be in my way can’t express the pain Isolated days what’s the price to change Life is strange, love could turn the night to day In the maze keep a spark to light the way At the gate never said the path was straight Know my fate, never foldin for the cake Never took the bait Wiser wit my age Either with you or they change I remain keep my foot from out the chains Took the reins In the game stayin sane Keep the goal in my range On the train thinkin shit i shouldn’t say Movin at my own pace Know the stakes Learned from all of my mistakes And the yard full of snakes Tryna take mine Both the trauma and the grace mine Everything gon take time...”
incredible piece of art that samples the beautiful song Isadora by Christian Scott...amazing.
Defjux’s Top 50 Hip Hop Albums of 2019
Based on replay value & personal significance. Definitely not an attempt at any kind of objective, irrefutable ranking - just a visual representation of what albums resonated with me the most in 2019. I gotta say though, if you think it was a weak year for rap releases there’s a chance you just weren’t looking hard enough. Sure, a lot of the mainstream heavy hitters were quiet this year but it doesn’t mean there was a lack of quality across the board. We got two billy woods albums, three Mach-Hommy projects, Three full albums from Your Old Droog, 3 from Tree, the return of Little Brother, sLUms & friends, Griselda, Mutant Academy, and a ton of other dope releases - so hopefully if you take the time to check out some of the stuff on here you’re unfamiliar with you’ll come across something you enjoy. As always, you can click the title of each album and it’ll take you to a stream or bandcamp page where you can hear / purchase it. Also feel free to let know what some of your favorite albums were this year, or what you think i might have missed. Peace. Top 50 Chart w/ Album titles Included Spotify playlist w/ tracks from these albums + more 1. Billy Woods & Kenny Segal - Hiding Places 2. Quelle Chris - Guns 3. Slauson Malone - A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 4. Billy Woods - Terror Management 5. Little Brother - May the Lord Watch 6. Aesop Rock & Tobacco - Malibu Ken 7. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Bandana 8. Yugen Blakrok - Anima Mysterium 9. Your Old Droog - It Wasn't Even Close 10. L'Orange & Jeremiah Jae - Complicate Your Life With Violence 11. Skyzoo & Pete Rock - Retropolitan 12. Hemlock Ernst & Kenny Segal - Back at the House 13. Mavi - Let the Sun Talk 14. JPEGMAFIA - All My Heroes Are Cornballs 15. Sadistik - Haunted Gardens 16. Roc Marciano - Marcielago 17. MIKE - tears of joy 18. R.A.P. ferreira (milo) - The Truly Ancient & Original Lefthanded Styles... 19. Mach-Hommy - Wap Konn Jòj! 20. clipping. - There Existed An Addiction To Blood 21. Theravada - Xennis Rodman 22. Maxo - LIL BIG MAN 23. Tree - WE Grown NOW. 24. Onoe Caponoe - Surf or Die 25. Brother Ali - Secrets & Escapes 26. Defcee & Knowsthetime - Lacuna 27. Little Simz - Grey Area 28. Danny Brown - uknowhatimsayin¿ 29. Benny the Butcher - The Plugs I Met 30. YIKES the ZERO - An Echo Storm Howling 31. Apollo Brown - Sincerely, Detroit 32. Fly Anakin & Big Kahuna OG - Holly Water 33. Deca x Neon Brown - The Donner Party 34. Clear Soul Forces - Still 35. Dälek - Respect To The Authors 36. Blu & Damu The Fudgemunk - Ground & Water 37. Akai Solo & Pink Siifu - Black Sand 38. Mr Key & Greenwood Sharps - Green & Gold 39. Unsung x Cunabear - Quiet, Bear 40. Rome Streetz x The Artivist - Joyeria 41. Estee Nack & RLX - Renaissance 42. DJ Muggs & Mach-Hommy - Tuez-Les Tous 43. Noveliss - Sword of Nature 44. Zilla Rocca - 96 Mentality 45. Bloodmoney Perez - About Fucking Time 46. Jakprogresso & Sonny Vintage - Custom Coffins 47. Medhane - Own Pace 48. Ruby Yacht - 37 GEMS 49. Eto x Wally Clark - The Circle 50. Wiki - OOFIE