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Clams Casino clearly has a knack for creating the kind of textures and atmosphere that feel like they are a part of some distant universe. He has been excelling at it for quite some time now. And although Instrumental Mixtape can certainly hold its own in terms of quality from track to track, Rainforest has a much clearer sense of purpose. Clams Casino‘s ‘Rainforest' is a record that I can say, hand on heart, gives me goosebumps or goose flesh, goose pimples, chill bumps, chicken skin, funky spots, dasler bumps whatever you want to call it, it elicits this bizarre display of awe and admiration. So what causes this effect? Well I guess it's the rich atmospheres.
Many of us first heard Clams Casino peaking out from behind some of hip-hop's more blog-centric figureheads – Soulja Boy, Main Attrakionz, and, most notably, Bay Area rapper Lil B. Take B's track 'Motivation' off of his 2011 Angels Exodus, which appeared as opener on Clam Casino's own self-released Instrumental Mixtape earlier this year. Casino's dystopic static-filled atmosphere seems to crumble around the Based God's leveled verses, outlining with narrative fragments his general motivations while the thickly languid tenor vocal sample strikes out from the ashes. Regardless of your opinion of Lil B, it's hard to deny the sentiment that Casino's production doesn't at least dwarf the MC. The richly textured instrumentals are complex and varied enough that's it hard for them not to swallow up anything keeping them grounded. It became apparent on the aforementioned mixtape that Casino's beats weren't really meant to be squashed by rhymes, but stretching themselves past any sort of solitary focal point.
Much like a slew of other trending electronic musicians including label-mate Balam Acab, Clams Casino builds his intricately layered tracks around sampled vocal centerpieces – a dynamic that can rightly clash with anyone else trying to make the tracks their own. It certainly might have proved a smart move to play bedroom mercenary to the internet's more charismatic hip-hop personalities for exposure's sake, but there's a striking melodic quality dripping with a sort of bombastic emotionalism that makes Clams Casino's arrangement style sit more comfortably alongside electronic's more dramatic and narrative-based artists, regardless of its hip-hop leanings. It's the type of stuff that plays more to naturalistic and transcendent greater-than-human affects. Like post-rock, perhaps. But there's a consistent and colorfully singular atmosphere to Casino's material that keeps things from becoming glazed.
Rainforest is Clams Casino's first proper release, appearing on the Tri Angle imprint, which is continuing to prove itself home to progressive hip-hop based artists such Balam Acab and oOoOO, weathering past its illy timed arrival to the larger indie landscape last year as a major part of the minor witch house fad. In any case, Rainforest is the perfect forward progression for Clams Casino to mark a relative place as one of the more interesting producers this side of not-quite-hip-hop. His trademark peak and valley layering around boxy crawling drum programming is still mostly in place, but the tracks feel more spacious and purposeful with the arrangements given more room to breathe.
'Natural' starts things off and quickly marks its place as the most beautiful piece Casino has managed across his seventeen or so song arc. A syncopated crash of delay brings a wave of glimmering sampled harp down around a buried kick and mournfully slow snare that seems to hit with a peak of reverence every time it lands. I can't think of an artist since the obvious go-tos – Burial or James Blake – that have such an identifiable style of vocal sampling. Where Burial's vocals are ghostly and distant or Blake's are warped and scattered, Casino's are full-bodied and softly immediate. But there's a placement and genteel laziness to them, despite being huge and hugely affecting, that's all his own. 'Natural' sports a throaty alto that wavers in and out of the foreground around bursts of whitely colored static like the sound of sharply cresting waves or failed radio transmissions.
In truth, 'Natural' is perhaps the only track that sits staunchly beside anything that came off Instrumental Mixtape. 'Waterfalls' supplies a more abstracted and lapping vocal and 'Treetop' is built around an urgent synth sequence, dropping the voice. 'Drowning' is a breathy affair with a digitally deteriorating piano loop and a heaving vocal that slides in and out of the bass register. 'Gorilla' is a culmination of sorts with a careening vocal buried in effects, sounding like some tearfully wounded animal while static builds and releases, finally making way for a resounding crescendo before ebbing into silence.
Rainforest is an EP and it does leave the listener wanting. It works as a sort of mini album, finding enough variable direction to point toward a future template for Clams Casino with a myriad of aural directions when he does decide to craft a full-length. For now though, he sits alongside a handful of promising forward-thinking instrumental hip-hop producers that still have yet to make their definitive statement, and he sits near the forefront of that group.
| Instrumentals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mixtape by | ||
| Released | March 7, 2011 | |
| Recorded | 2009–2010 | |
| Genre | ||
| Length | 42:12 | |
| Label | Self-released | |
| Producer | Clams Casino | |
| Clams Casino chronology | ||
| ||
| Alternate cover |
Instrumentals is the debut mixtape of American record producer Clams Casino. It was self-released as a free digital download on March 7, 2011. It features instrumentals of tracks that he produced for various rappers, including some bonus songs. Casino oaks towers. In July 2011,[1]Instrumentals was reissued by Type Records as a physical release.[2]
Music[edit]
Instrumentals consists of Clams Casino's reconstructions of backing tracks he originally produced for rappers such as Lil B and Soulja Boy.[3] An electronic mixtape,[4] it features illbient, glitchbeat, and chillwave styles.[3] Some of the mixtape explores a more traditional hip hop sound. Its second half touches on bouncy basslines ('She's Hot'), dubstep-influenced, low-endgrind ('Brainwash by London'), and vocal looping similar to the production of Kanye West ('Cold War').[1]Instrumentals appropriates Casino's previous hip hop beats into moody compositions, which are characterized by melodramatic drum crescendos and melancholic electronic sounds.[4]
Critical reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Fact | 4.5/5[5] |
| MSN Music (Expert Witness) | A−[3] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10[4] |
| Resident Advisor | 4.0/5[1] |
| Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[6] |
In a review for Resident Advisor, Andrew Ryce called Instrumentals 'a collection of aching, blown-out paeans to wonder, sadness and profound joy—music that any of the above could fall in love with.'[1]Pitchfork critic Brandon Soderberg said Casino's 'attention to hip-hop structure .. makes these beats so emotionally devastating.'[4] Rory Gibb from The Quietus felt that, without the rappers they were originally produced for, the instrumentals are 'revealed as intricate enough to stand alone in their own right', while sounding 'ephemeral and peculiarly of this moment, phantom aggregations of mood and sound that coalesce for brief periods of time before potentially disengaging at some undisclosed point in the future.'[2]Sputnikmusic's Conrad Tao felt that, although Instrumentals sounds occasionally conventional, Casino's approach to sampling is 'refreshingly abstract'. He went on to write that the mixtape basically serves as 'a hugely enticing teaser for what promises to be an illustrious career filled with sumptuous, bittersweet music.'[6] Writing for MSN Music, Robert Christgau said Casino's 'comfortably disquieting' sound 'will grow on you if you give it a chance. And because it's designed to back into your space, providing the chance won't feel all that time-consuming, preoccupied as you'll be with something more engrossing while said time passes.'[3]
Pitchfork placed Instrumentals at number 17 in its top-50 albums of 2011 list.[7] In 2014, the website also placed the album at 100 on its list of 'Best Albums of the Decade So Far.'[8] It ranked the song 'Motivation' number 30 on its list of the Top-100 Tracks of 2011.[9]Stereogum ranked the mixtape number 21 on its year-end top albums list.[10]Fact named it as one of the best instrumental hip hop mixtapes to come after the release of J Dilla's Donuts album.[11]
Track listing[edit]
'Natural' starts things off and quickly marks its place as the most beautiful piece Casino has managed across his seventeen or so song arc. A syncopated crash of delay brings a wave of glimmering sampled harp down around a buried kick and mournfully slow snare that seems to hit with a peak of reverence every time it lands. I can't think of an artist since the obvious go-tos – Burial or James Blake – that have such an identifiable style of vocal sampling. Where Burial's vocals are ghostly and distant or Blake's are warped and scattered, Casino's are full-bodied and softly immediate. But there's a placement and genteel laziness to them, despite being huge and hugely affecting, that's all his own. 'Natural' sports a throaty alto that wavers in and out of the foreground around bursts of whitely colored static like the sound of sharply cresting waves or failed radio transmissions.
In truth, 'Natural' is perhaps the only track that sits staunchly beside anything that came off Instrumental Mixtape. 'Waterfalls' supplies a more abstracted and lapping vocal and 'Treetop' is built around an urgent synth sequence, dropping the voice. 'Drowning' is a breathy affair with a digitally deteriorating piano loop and a heaving vocal that slides in and out of the bass register. 'Gorilla' is a culmination of sorts with a careening vocal buried in effects, sounding like some tearfully wounded animal while static builds and releases, finally making way for a resounding crescendo before ebbing into silence.
Rainforest is an EP and it does leave the listener wanting. It works as a sort of mini album, finding enough variable direction to point toward a future template for Clams Casino with a myriad of aural directions when he does decide to craft a full-length. For now though, he sits alongside a handful of promising forward-thinking instrumental hip-hop producers that still have yet to make their definitive statement, and he sits near the forefront of that group.
| Instrumentals | ||
|---|---|---|
| Mixtape by | ||
| Released | March 7, 2011 | |
| Recorded | 2009–2010 | |
| Genre | ||
| Length | 42:12 | |
| Label | Self-released | |
| Producer | Clams Casino | |
| Clams Casino chronology | ||
| ||
| Alternate cover |
Instrumentals is the debut mixtape of American record producer Clams Casino. It was self-released as a free digital download on March 7, 2011. It features instrumentals of tracks that he produced for various rappers, including some bonus songs. Casino oaks towers. In July 2011,[1]Instrumentals was reissued by Type Records as a physical release.[2]
Music[edit]
Instrumentals consists of Clams Casino's reconstructions of backing tracks he originally produced for rappers such as Lil B and Soulja Boy.[3] An electronic mixtape,[4] it features illbient, glitchbeat, and chillwave styles.[3] Some of the mixtape explores a more traditional hip hop sound. Its second half touches on bouncy basslines ('She's Hot'), dubstep-influenced, low-endgrind ('Brainwash by London'), and vocal looping similar to the production of Kanye West ('Cold War').[1]Instrumentals appropriates Casino's previous hip hop beats into moody compositions, which are characterized by melodramatic drum crescendos and melancholic electronic sounds.[4]
Critical reception[edit]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Fact | 4.5/5[5] |
| MSN Music (Expert Witness) | A−[3] |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10[4] |
| Resident Advisor | 4.0/5[1] |
| Sputnikmusic | 3.5/5[6] |
In a review for Resident Advisor, Andrew Ryce called Instrumentals 'a collection of aching, blown-out paeans to wonder, sadness and profound joy—music that any of the above could fall in love with.'[1]Pitchfork critic Brandon Soderberg said Casino's 'attention to hip-hop structure .. makes these beats so emotionally devastating.'[4] Rory Gibb from The Quietus felt that, without the rappers they were originally produced for, the instrumentals are 'revealed as intricate enough to stand alone in their own right', while sounding 'ephemeral and peculiarly of this moment, phantom aggregations of mood and sound that coalesce for brief periods of time before potentially disengaging at some undisclosed point in the future.'[2]Sputnikmusic's Conrad Tao felt that, although Instrumentals sounds occasionally conventional, Casino's approach to sampling is 'refreshingly abstract'. He went on to write that the mixtape basically serves as 'a hugely enticing teaser for what promises to be an illustrious career filled with sumptuous, bittersweet music.'[6] Writing for MSN Music, Robert Christgau said Casino's 'comfortably disquieting' sound 'will grow on you if you give it a chance. And because it's designed to back into your space, providing the chance won't feel all that time-consuming, preoccupied as you'll be with something more engrossing while said time passes.'[3]
Pitchfork placed Instrumentals at number 17 in its top-50 albums of 2011 list.[7] In 2014, the website also placed the album at 100 on its list of 'Best Albums of the Decade So Far.'[8] It ranked the song 'Motivation' number 30 on its list of the Top-100 Tracks of 2011.[9]Stereogum ranked the mixtape number 21 on its year-end top albums list.[10]Fact named it as one of the best instrumental hip hop mixtapes to come after the release of J Dilla's Donuts album.[11]
Track listing[edit]
| No. | Title | Artist originally made for[12] | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 'Motivation' | Lil B | 4:28 |
| 2. | 'All I Need' | Soulja Boy | 3:44 |
| 3. | 'Real Shit from a Real Nigga' | Lil B | 2:56 |
| 4. | 'Realist Alive' | Lil B | 4:00 |
| 5. | 'Numb' | A$AP Rocky | 3:55 |
| 6. | 'What You Doin' | Lil B | 4:19 |
| 7. | 'The World Needs Change' | Soulja Boy | 2:25 |
| 8. | 'I'm Official' | Squadda B | 2:18 |
| 9. | 'Brainwash by London' | The Jealous Guys | 2:56 |
| 10. | 'Illest Alive' | Main Attrakionz | 4:09 |
| 11. | 'She's Hot' | Deezy D | 2:56 |
| 12. | 'Cold War' | Lil B | 2:50 |
| 13. | '13' | (bonus track) | 1:19 |
References[edit]
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- ^ abcdRyce, Andrew (August 15, 2011). 'Clams Casino – Instrumentals'. Resident Advisor. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ abGibb, Rory (August 22, 2011). 'Clams Casino'. The Quietus. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ abcdChristgau, Robert (February 14, 2012). 'Skrillex/Clams Casino'. MSN Music. Archived from the original on September 14, 2013. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ abcdSoderberg, Brandon (April 8, 2011). 'Clams Casino: Instrumental Mixtape'. Pitchfork. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^Lea, Tom (August 15, 2011). 'Clams Casino: Instrumentals'. Fact. London. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^ abTao, Conrad (May 21, 2011). 'Clams Casino – Instrumental Mixtape (album review)'. Sputnikmusic. Retrieved April 13, 2013.
- ^'Staff Lists: The Top-50 Albums of 2011'. Pitchfork. December 15, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
- ^'The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far (2010–2014)'. Pitchfork. August 19, 2014. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
- ^'The Top-100 Tracks of 2011'. Pitchfork. December 12, 2011. Retrieved January 9, 2012.
- ^'Stereogum's Top-50 Albums Of 2011'. Stereogum. December 5, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
- ^Piyevsky, Alex (May 25, 2015). 'Life After Dilla: 25 great post-Donuts instrumental hip-hop mixtapes'. Fact. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
- ^'Instrumental Mixtape by clammyclams'. SoundCloud. Retrieved February 19, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Instrumental Mixtape at Discogs (list of releases)
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