Disillusions is the last tape from July 2012, unlike the last one there is no carrying theme; it is quite random.  "Jazz Hands" starts things off with a soulful lick and some jazzy trap intertwined with such.  The manic glitching ensues right after with "Spunkmeyer", which turns the classic Otis Redding sample from Watch the Throne on its head.  Things get sort of creepy with "Terrify" with a droning Native American sample looping over creepier synth  and piano patterns and ugly 808s, with the patented glitching and chopping occuring.  Lightwaves brings out the melancholy with a supposed Blade Runner sample (I can't remember lol) over mean bass and alto sax and tambourine, definitely a highlight of the tape.  Things get really bright with "Griffey", which has an upbeat, triumphant tone,(along with choir tones) definitely one of my favorites of all time.  the Axe series is continued with "Trill Axe", probably a holdover from earlier in the year, with a driving guitar riff reminiscent of the Police or At the Drive-In, which also goes downbeat with nice happy trap sounds mixed in.  "Children's Show" is a short interlude I made for Zach Behm for a video he made, very happy with a little guitar solo, short but sweet. "Funks Wit It" is funky, jazzy, and overall groovy, much like me and Cuzz Lightyear's "Neptune Funk".  "Oh Lord Pt. Deux" is a sequel to a sample I used back in 2011, but this time I slowed it down to get the blues out of it and gave it a downbeat trap feel, along with a Jimi sample to give it a very psychedelic vibe (used later on my "The Truth" mixtape).  "Wino" is, I think, the first time I experimented with Amy Winehouse samples, this time "You Send Me Flying" probably one of my favorites, because of the somber vibe of the piano and voice which is contrasted with the high-pitch upbeat parts.  "Liquid Fire" is just a hard-hitting short beat, with a few Gojira samples coupled with a sample of me making weird sounds, all polyrhythmic and such, definitely a banger.  "Knockin' Boots" is another Amy sample, which is much like "Spunkmeyer" with pitch changes but much more soulful and sentimental, more of the usual you'd expect of the two-beats-in-one format. "Crawl" is exactly what it is named, with an Arabic/Spanish stance and lush brass over booming 808s to close out the tape.  So enjoy Disillusions and look out for new music coming sooner than you think!

Disillusions

introducing my mix series dedicated to moments of introspection, reflection, and emotional release. each mix is improvised within such mental spaces in an effort to channel those through sonic waves. Each month a new r3l3as3 will be uploaded. tracklists provided for each release

r3l3as3

tracklist:
being blessed (interlude) -gil scott-heron
v - claire rousay
grain part two - zs
alabama poem - nikki giovanni
komba - nostalgianoid
the translators - john mclaughlin
shadow shapes - dorothy ashby
across the mists of time - max steiner (from the movie "she")
a doctor, please - jerry goldsmith (from the movie "the omen")
mbaudy - ali farka toure
being it - arthur russell
witch museum - landowner
marshall - dna 
0274 - allan holdsworth
peepshow - nick walker
macia - hermeto pascoal 
blue in green - jack dejohnette, ravi coltrane, matthew garrison
of many mirrors - harold budd & clive wright 

r3l3as3 005 mar 2025

Tracklist:
mahavishnu orchestra - sapphire bullets of pure love
hakushi hasegawa - a whole new world
john oswald - igor stravinsky-spring
sewerslvt - never existed
boys hotel - I just dropped years for the gang
cheikh tidiane fall, malachi favors, sunny murray - african ancestrian piece
war from a harlots mouth - mulder
dock boggs - commentary on playing and recording
zs - mmw i (part 3)
francesca mas torres - sa petita les pastura
skip james - devil got my woman
level 42 - starchild
tatsuro yamashita - merry go round
mustafa - por causa de voce menina (mo' horizons restyle)
jean sibelius (leonard bernstein & ny philharmonic) - symphony no.2 in d major, op.43 - ii. tempo andante, ma rubato
ali farka toure - samariya 


r3l3as3 006 apr 2025

tracklist:
susan alcorn - and who could I ask if it wasn't you?
mahavishnu orchestra - trilogy
q lazzarus - i see your eyes
hakushi hasegawa - devil
claude debussy - images, book ii: cloches à travers les feuilles
der zyklus - iris retinal scanning
vangelis - la violence du volcan
v.c.r. - lothlórien
extra life - coming apart
john oswald - don van vliet-replica
maria chavez - ridiculous circularity, 2022
hermeto pascoal - vou esperar
sahib shihab - from me to you


r3l3as3 007 may 2025

tracklist:

sabrina malheiros - cade voce (max cole & beatnick remix)
outkast - in due time (instrumental)
guitar welch - lonesome blues
mattie may thomas - workhouse blues
dartriix - echo
f.u.s.e. - slac
link - arcadian
morelenbaum² / sakamoto - fotografia
vera ward hall - poor lazarus
jana rush - painful enlightenment
uncle texx - fuk dat shhhhhhit666
jlin - challenge (to be continued II)
masaka masaka - cut right through
akito arap yeko - chepchoni marinda (nandi) 
nellie florence & barbecue bob - midnight weeping blues
ida may mack - good bye rider take 1
pillage - piano ting
cuenique - going hard
b12 - drift (bonus track)
ryuichi sakamoto - azadona yunta

r3l3as3 008 june 2025

tracklist:

julien dyne - stained glass fresh frozen ft. mara tak
bénin: rythmes et chants pour les vodun - rythme nago/yoruba (either this is performed by people of the aizo tribe of allada or the gun people of porto novo)
marcos valle - escape (kashmeer brothers 2007 remix)
don cherry - utopia and visions
anthony braxton - knitting factory, 1997 September 1b
stravinsky - symphony of psalms - part II: expectans expectavi dominum (performed by bernstein & ny philharmonic
cuenique - messy (dokis wong)
cakedog - love spell
friends from rio - mulher malagueta
rizzla - chainsaw
princesse mansia m'bila - ngoma mansia
intense - eastern promise
boys hotel - copperpot
dna - newest fastest
hella - kid life crisis



r3l3as3 008 june 2025

Nostalgianoid