“The connection between the San Francisco Bay Area and Japan’s hip-hop communities has been an intriguing subplot in the world of underground rap for decades, but only so many musical projects have taken the opportunity to celebrate it.”
Promo notes from Music for Indoor Cats
More than two years after Music for Indoor Cats, SF beatmaker Brycon rejoins Japanese producer iLL Sugi on Devastating! Forces of Nature! to celebrate their cross-Pacific musical kinship. As with the earlier album, Devastating! is a split cassette tape featuring Brycon’s dreamy, soul-tinged boom bap on side A and iLL Sugi’s mellow jazz cymbal and wind chime reverie on side B. They each get their own side but they’re also mutually influential, inspiring each other to dig deeper and manifest their own sonic styles more completely, delivering the chillest vibes end to end.
See Brycon and iLL Sugi play at Bottom of the Hill on August 29 alongside fellow Bay Area artists J.Lately, Rocky G, and Oddity.
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