CL co-hosts The 808 Experiment Vol. 2 release party
Both the song and its accompanying stop motion animation video are lush in their soft collision of similar motions.
hen SMKA dropped The 808 Experiment Vol. 1 nearly a year ago, it gave a pulse to Atlanta’s undefined and unrefined slice of the underground. Stuck halfway between the hipsters and the hood, the range covered was due mostly to the insane amount of acts (MCs and vocalists) amassed on one compilation. About 25 artists were featured. But the project still managed to sound cohesive, thanks to the bass-heavy production from Atlanta native 808 Blake.
n Jan. 18, the saga continues with the release of Vol. 2. From the looks of the 25-plus artists featured (see tracklisting below jump), SMKA intends to stretch even further stylistically. Imagine’s harsh, gritty lyrical delivery on the same album with R&B flamboyance? Or true-school MC Senor Kaos compiled on the same project as tripped-out Hollyweerd
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In a hip-hop scene unneccesarily subdivided by a maze of microgenres, this comp. could serve as some long overdue fly paper. At least, we at CL hope so — which is why we’re co-sponsoring the listening session and release party that jumps off on Fri., Jan. 22. After The 808 Experiment Vol. 1 swept both the readers and critics categories for Best Local Mixtape in last year’s Best of Atlanta issue, it was a no-brainer. We had to be down.