EP released in 2013 hidden in Ray West's discography, which went virtually unnoticed. Yet there are some important names here, in the middle of the instrumentals.
The first cut is "Ride Home", a light and simple, tight, circular jazzy rhythm, spoken delivery of Blu and tribal sample looped in the background. The next song sees a light, simple jazzy rhythm, with a female soulful acute sample looped in background and a decent delivery by OC that suffers of too simple and repeated chorus.
"By Choice" is an instrumental track with a good, simple, jazzy, lively rhythm and male soul sample looped tight in the background. Blu on the fourth cut to give a strong tear to the disc, it starts immediately flowing and hardcore on a light jazzy rhythm and not ready for this delivery, hook left to the soulful sample looped in the background, Dave Dar closes at the second verse above a bridge soulful jazzy with flute loop.
The fifth track is an instrumental, decent, simple, essential jazzy production, with a couple of looped lines. AG returns to rap over a Ray West beat, a congenial song, a light and mild jazzy rhythm, a weak drum machine in the background and a plaintive and cold female soulful sample looped in the background, the whole track seems dead, sounds dead, cold, cadaveric, without emotions. So AG. It's perfect. It's his mood. Track for him. He interprets it in a way that isn't easy to explain, just listening. These are the two most morgue minutes of 2013, possibly in all genres!
A decent, simple jazzy rhythm follows, seasoned with a female soul sample looped tight in background, decent but generic production. The eighth piece is a remix of the first song, light and mild jazzy rhythm, weak, circular, simple, male soul sample looped tight in the background, decent beat.
The next song is a remix of that of Omar Credle: ghostly, disturbing production, dark mood made such by the female soul sample looped well in background by Ray West, nice work, I appreciate it, light jazzy beat with dark whispers in the background, it's a worthy production of a Stephen King movie. Bravo, bravo! Then, solo of flute over morning chirps, relaxing vibes, good proof of the beat that Blu easily dominated. It follows the instrumental of "Berrii". Without the deceased delivery of the DITC rapper, it's another thing. But Ray West's work here's priceless.
With the rhythm of "New Luv" it makes a pair of creeps, they're two dark jazzy productions remarkable in their raw simplicity: here you can hear the rhythmic and punctual work of the drum machine, the dark lines in background and the choice of a samples that can be functional to the cause. Nothing to complain. Nice work by the beatsmith who highlights his skills with simplicity. It'd be over, however there's a sort of bonus, the remix of "Too Kool to Be Glue": essential, simple, tight jazzy rhythm, generic delivery of Dave Dar, not too inspired.
Rating: 6.5/10.
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