(From The Vault)

I’ll be honest, it ain’t my favourite thing to review beat tapes. I always feel I can’t give the most cohesive review without both vocals and beats, but if there’s any producer I’m willing to always do it for, it’s this man! A man who has shown in the past that he is capable of releasing some of the dopest records and beats in the culture, and so with all the faith in the world, I present to you 

FROM THE VAULT

This is the latest beat tape by mega producer Noisy Ne!ghbour with a fresh batch of 12 tracks. This thing is a titan of sounds and influences large enough to satisfy any and all hip hop fans! 

There are just so many tracks worth mentioning! We can start with that intro track – The Four Horsemen, which sounds like spaghetti western meets classic jazz! (Sounds weird, I know), but somehow he pulls it off!

You’ve got those looping string progressions in the background that remind me of sonic tumbleweeds as we have the main low register jazz horns going off in two different tones (one higher and one lower), and then to top it off, we have a third layer of jazz that comes around every 10 seconds or so to hit you with a massive wave of sound! 

As well as some surreal drums that make this feel like a boom bap’s equivalent of Clint Eastwood! It’s strange, but man does it fucking work!

We have tracks like – Mr Socko, which sounds like a creepy walk in the most dangerous hood you can find. You’ve got those deep and dark key progressions that possess a looming presence as they loop around the track in the two shades of tones! 

On top of that, we save some sickening bass and some drum notes that provide the skeletal structure to the whole thing!

This beat SCREAMS boom bap in its rawest form, and it’s definitely not the kind of song to listen to at night!

We have tracks like – Pinto Beans, which provides us with an almost mysterious, spy movie beat! This is the kind of shit I can imagine myself playing in the background as I try some Tom Cruise, Mission Impossible shit! Climbing up walls and shit!

You’ve got these beautifully plucked strings that are accompanied by some surreal drums, light bass, and some distorted second layer of strings that come and go abruptly throughout the whole song! 

I caught myself bumping my head to this shit more than the rest of the tracks if I’m being honest! 

We can even look at the outro track – We Can Make It, which decides to end the album on a classical/soul note! It’s got these gorgeous, angelic vocal samples that ever so smoothly blend with those jazz horns (in the two different layers) as well as some timely violin strings, plucked strings, and drums!

This is the kind of track you sit back, light a cigar to, and let the end of the day pass you by as you let the stress of the last 24 hours melt away as you prepare for a new one! 

Man, I ain’t here to spoil every single track, but if the tracks I have described don’t excite you, then you’ve lost your fucking mind. He’s one of the most talented producers out there, and he just created a surreal and grand world with no vocals in one of the most vivid ways possible! So go support the man and click the link below! 

https://noisyneghbour.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-vault