Today's "Paper Chat New Album" series is more special, this is the first time we have put two Mixtape together, the two protagonists are Xie Di's "Couple Hunnid Mixtape Vol.3" and Ma Siwei's new label A Few Good Kids Records "Goodkidstape 1".
The reasons put together are that in addition to their singers from Chengdu, they also have a bit of clothing brand promotion, mainly these two Mixtape are not too high-quality in my place, but they can't fault anything big.
They are all relatively standard formats, standard control, not eye-catching but not at fault. The main reason is that the style of Mixtape singles is also relatively homogeneous, and I really can't pick out anything that can be said when I write one by one. Today is the eleventh issue of "Paper Chat New Album", like this series of friends welcome to leave a message below the tweet, like.
These two Mixtape are basically biased towards Flexin, pure shake has no content of the album, Douban score is not high. Xie Di's 5.1 points, Ma Siwei's 5.3 points on the label platter, this is what I did not expect.
After Ma Siwei began to love songs and then gradually sub-forced, it was basically a bad review, Boss Xie's reputation was not bad, and Ma Siwei's label Mixtape could still have a little advantage.
First of all, let's talk about Ma Siwei's label compilation album "Goodkidstape 1", it is estimated that many friends are going to Ma Siwei's name, and when they click with expectation, they find that no one knows much.
In fact, I am almost the same, I have not heard much of the domestic new generation of Asian forced songs, except for Young13Dbaby, none of them have heard of. I really don't know, I was shocked to see it, clicked on the singer page of these rappers and looked at the songs they had previously released, and could only sigh that there are really many Sub-forced singers in Chengdu.
The first impression of this Mixtape is pure rocking plus some love songs, although I am not very interested in Sub-forced songs, but if it is shaken enough, it is also possible.
Here's a quote from my good friend, the well-known Douban anti-feminist weimar, commented on this album: These new generation of few good kids, well-off families, never struggle, so the works made are not as old-school rappers as vendetta, basically everyday flexin.
In fact, if you think about it carefully, it is not reasonable for you to let a group of twenty-year-old young men who have suffered from the "poison" of capitalism live their whole life philosophy.
But let's say shake it, this album really isn't that shake. Only one song is Tyga Type's rhythm is stronger. The rest of the songs are some more traditional Trap bases, and more want to present the feeling of dryness. The accompaniment on this album is still good, and the producer is very good at using Hihat, but there are few highlights in some synth sounds and vocal mixes.
Regardless of whether it is domestic or foreign, this kind of sub-forced song is not my strong point, so let's not talk about good singles this time, but some songs that I think are more flawed.
"2 Seater Coupe" this single, the first listen to the prelude of the electric drum is a very fast and powerful rhythm, a listen is a Strong Taste of Trap, as long as you enter the 808 can be dry. However, in some of the electronic sounds in the melody section, the effect presented is very hazy and psychedelic, just like the feelings commonly used in Travis Scott's songs, these electronic sounds are more to lay the sense of hearing.
At first, it would have been thought to be a relatively flying maneuver, but at the beginning Chorus felt inappropriate, very hard and a lot of looping, and it felt like completely ignoring this very colorful electronic melody.
In fact, according to the drum beat and the beating synthesizer tone, this hook is no problem, but the complete neglect of the mood-added Loop makes this hook look very stiff.
The song also has two Pre-Chorus segments, half of which are brainwashed in a circular way, but Hook, which gives such a blunt tone, really doesn't fly for me.
The second song I want to talk about is "Phoenix Phoenix", as a melody-based song, the composition of this song really refreshed my understanding of the lower limit of Chinese rap melody creation.
I used to think that the composition of this kind of sub-forced song was at most mediocre, there was no ups and downs, and it basically belonged to the tone change enhanced version. But how did the song's composition do it so "gracefully and tortuously"? The big brothers of India, whose tone is twisted, have to bow to the wind.
In the Arrangement of the Hook part, I think it is also a bit messy, too rich melodic instrumentation makes it difficult for me to hear a main melody, and the only impression after listening to it four or five times is only a guqin-like tone, the melody direction is not complete, and a short period of infinite Loop.
At the same time, there is no coordination with the composition of the singing section, it is not a key at all, and the accompaniment and vocals play their own. But it is really difficult for the producer, such a weird composer who matched the chords?
The third single I want to talk about is "Apollo Driller Apollo Messenger", this song is still quite interesting, very clearly showing the characteristics of Hyperpop.
But I saw that there was a high-praise interpretation in the comments section of the song that was a bit confusing, saying that the song combined Drill with Hyperpop. In fact, it is not so pompous, this song is based on Hyperpop with a little portamento, and It has nothing to do with Drill.
The concept of Drill is to fix on top of Trap, add portamento and slightly change the rhythmic pattern, but also combine its content, is a complete Drill. In fact, the most obvious for most listeners is only portamento, but portamento is not exclusive to Drill.
It can only be said that this song is based on Hyperpop, and it is very imaginative to add portamento, and the same portamento is also very suitable for this dreamy retro color accompaniment.
In fact, this song does play Hyperpop more clearly, thanks to the arrangement In addition to the appropriate choice of orchestration timbre, flanger's gameplay is also relatively rare in Chinese rap. It's just that the application is not bold enough, the length is too short, and the reverberation of the verse part of the vocals is also very convergent, but there is some sense of echo, and the effect is directly pulled full of the song to be more slippery.
This Mixtape is only five points for me, four points for the arrangement, and one point for Ma Siwei's willingness to bring the little brother's warm heart. Although I don't have much say in the Song of Asian Force, I can deeply appreciate the pull of the vocals at this level of superficiality.
How did Ma Siwei find so many rappers like him, with a thin and pointed tone, no texture and a thief's love to sing? Even if the singing skills are poor, this melody is really not talented, the composition is poor, either there is no ups and downs or strange tones, the conversion of the melody and the conversion to rap are also incoherent, and the level of stealing rice is really a world away.
Such vocal control is really nothing outstanding, resulting in the whole compilation album, even if the top of the arrangement can not fly, the effect presented is a European and American new generation of Chinese albums, Dong Shi Gong.
Then let's talk about Boss Xie's Mixtape, if Boss Xie says that he is The most prolific rapper in China, it seems that there is really no controversy. Xie Di is so hard to promote his brand, we are not good to refute his face, first talk about his personal clothing brand, Couple Hunnid. In fact, it is not difficult to see from the MV of Vol.1 that this brand is the main West Coast Chicano style.
The MV is indeed quite a gangster, but the physical effect does not seem to have much to do with Chicano. Or 1807 that cylinder chest circumference is not large, the length of the clothes is not long version, make a picture to the chest and print it is finished. There are some chicano elements in it, but many daily, life-like changes have been made.
My first impression of This CH Vol.3 of Xie Di is also this, not very serious. Although most of the singles are still based on Drill music, many of The Drit's elements, such as the representative portamento, are much less space on this album and some Brag content is added.
However, after listening carefully a few times, it is obvious that this Mixtape is more innovative than the previous one, playing with flowers. The arrangement of the first two Pieces of Drill music is still relatively conservative, and although the fierce tone of Emperor Xie's own faction is very suitable for Drill, it is also tired of listening to it.
This part reduces a lot of the depressing content and Flexin's shaking feeling, and the slightly aggressive Brag makes the part even more characteristic.
Two of my favorite singles in Vol.3 are "Be Like Me" and "Stuffy Mole is a Friend's Bully Dog but Basically Has Nothing to Do with the Song." Both songs have a common feature that is very obvious, that is, playing mixing and rhythm on top of the 808 portamento.
I first heard "Be Like Me" in the order of the album, and I was really shocked when I heard the portamento of this song, Chinese rap circle finally someone in the rap circle slipped differently!
This song cooperates with Nachiwolf, the accompaniment is a standard Brooklyn taste, picking some strings plus the ethereal female vocal background chanting, the two are not a special standard Dril feeling, still the boss xie fierce, that Chiwolf heavy Flow, and did not perform well Drill's standard smooth, but each has its own love.
What I like more about this song are two different portamentos, both through the change in tone plus Phaser, and finally someone is not the universal portamento, and I am about to vomit.
"Stuffy Dun is a friend's bully dog but basically has nothing to do with this song", don't look at the title of this song is very funny, but the accompaniment play is quite wonderful. The prelude gives a rhythmic Hihat throughout the whole process, and then enters the 808 in the back, in addition to the special sliding method on the portamento, and then follows the rapid electric drum. Two completely different beats intersect at the intersection of the remake, and the wonderful rhythm is very comfortable.
Although these two singles are in control, Boss Xie is not too novel, and the previous pile of Drirr is a tone. But the special in portamento and rhythm has hung all the Drills in the current Chinese rap circle. I retracted my previous remarks that I should have used Pop Smoke as a template, and Drill could not play with flowers, but I was shallow.
The feeling of this Vol.3 is much better than the previous two, the flower work on the accompaniment, the ease and humor in the words, Boss Xie showed his talent for creating lyrics at one time, which well reflects The various ways to play Byrd. I also think that Boss Xie is still much more reliable in making music than making clothes, and the clothes are really not good.
This Vol.3 I think can raise the average score of the other two sheets, which is basically equivalent to "The Doomsday of the Earth Snake". However, due to the mistape and commercial nature of the consideration, the score will not be too high.
The aforementioned Douban score of "Goodkidstape 1" is higher than that of "Couple Hunnid Vol.3", and an elaborate label is like the Chineseization of Soundcloud Rapper, and the other mixtape of commercial ticket play has become Chinese The Innovation of Derill. It's clear which is stronger and which is weaker, and that's how I think about these two Mixtapes.