this is just too fuckin good
usually what I'll do is download 20 or so records at once and then spend the next week or 2 going through them
usually that means that i forget to listen to a few of them and then they pop up on shuffle a few months later
this was one of the best instances of that ever because to me this record came out of fucking nowhere and now i just stay up listening to this on my roof (weather got nice) all night
i played this for my friend will and he said it sounded like sublime frequencies dilla, which is pretty on-point
onra is some french dj guy who went to visit vietnam and came back with a crate of about 30 records, and basically made a j dilla record with them
i dont want it to sound like he's biting dilla or whatever, that's just the best comparison I can come up with. when i first heard this knowing nothing about it i assumed that it was some vietnamese guy in a hut who found some decks somehow and was all disseminating cultural revolution via beats, but even if its not this is still just a motherfucker of a record
the whole thing is made up of vintage chinese and vietnamese pop, and the whole thing hangs together so perfectly that it doesnt seem like a gimmick as much as a perfectly fleshed out aesthetic, even down to the track titles (eat dog, apocalypse now). every single track here is totally refreshing and mysterious and sexy and sounds like driving a fucking old motorcycle through vietnam buying records
what could be cooler than that
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