An opinion I feel so strongly about, I had to share it with the man himself. In my mind, DOZA has to be one of the most unique and exciting new artists I’ve discovered in a minute. Anytime he’s on a project or as a feature act, he’s one to watch, and then you add in the fact he’s made a full-length alongside Machacha? That’s a formula that’s a no-brainer for me. Let’s get into why!
Brand-new collaboration project. MC DOZA, THE DRUM DEALER & Producer, Machacha. Together, they drop a solid 10 tracks with the likes of:
-Aïda
-Casket D
-Sam R I
-Mar
-Kaeson Skrilla
And across this tape (as I fully expected to be the case), we have DOZA unleashing a lyrical barrage of overwhelming personality, original eccentricity, and an aura so rare you can tell he’s on the track a mile away!
For example, his flow is an interesting combination of free-lance and structured! He’s somehow found the balance for both to make his bars unpredictable and yet precise and tight in execution!
His bars are filled with high energy, lively pronouncements of his words, a heavy lace of passion and conviction that makes him sound like a verbal menace across the tracks!
He makes every song he’s on feel like an experience to go through! Due to his over-the-top performances, his fun and crisp rhythms, his fresh pen game, and his never-ending spirit that feels like it increases with every track that passes, like a build-up sound that goes up with every octave passed!
Imagine that with a human being unleashing all his creativity into a gradual progression that makes this (and any other song he’s on) feel rare and special!
I’d compare it to the WSG effect! How no song is ever tame or quiet. How each track is full of a variety of sounds, snippets, adlibs, samples— you name it!
Imagine that same formula except on a different scale! A more personalised version of that aura! He’s like a genius wordsmith gone wrong or turned to the dark side, and now he’s unleashing all his honed skills and abilities onto the beats to create a controlled chaos that makes anything else I listen to afterwards plain or boring in comparison!
The features he brought out for this record were definitely impressive and stand out! They weren’t just there for feature’s sake and actually elevated the specific songs they were part of! I have to give a shoutout to my main man ‘Casket. D’ for his incredible verse, as I feel he had the MVP feature track on the album!
Speaking of the album, we can’t forget about the beatmaker himself, Machacha. A man who I am convinced doesn’t sleep! A man who probably sleeps in his studio with his rate of consistency with, I’d guess, among 20+ hit records this year alone, and he obviously hasn’t finished!
Across this tape, we hear Machacha take on sounds even I haven’t heard him tackle before! It really feels like he’s doing his best to match the wild and untamed energy of DOZA with his own take on unique sounds and atmospheres that are a few stages darker and experimental than even someone as well-versed as he is used to!
For example, take that intro track into consideration. To me, it sounds like a menacing, thrilling take on a swarm of bees! You’ve got that swarming sound, relentless in the headphones! On top of that, we have those thudding, heavy dragging drums and those haunting keys that were so long and plucked that it leaves an eerie effect!
What about the song -Popular with that hypnotic wave of instrumentation. This kind of reminds me vaguely of the Busta single ‘Woo-Hah’. It’s got these droning and repetitive motions that make you feel like you just smoked a fat joint!
Those slow, surreal drums as well as those vocal harmonies that all come together to make a modern-day stoner track feel!
Even the incredible features help lend themselves to the vibe and aura of the track! The two of them KILL IT!
Every beat on here feels more refined as well as more explosive! This honesty feels like he’s throwing caution away and on the final month of the year revealing a new sonic face that’s even foreign to him and letting whatever happen, happen!
Trust me, I’ve heard him utilise and sample every single kind of genre & influence known to man and even so. A style consisting of pure brash ideas, uncompromising instrumentation and uncontrolled creativity and I have to say it suits Machacha quite well this more non traditional style and I hope to see more of it in the future!
A frantic pairing that no one could have predicted but now one I can’t imagine without! Somehow this might be my favourite Machacha production of the year and any occasion with DOZA is life altering! Check below now!
https://dozathedrumdealer.bandcamp.com/album/more-violince
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