“A cinema-worthy opus dedicated to fine luggage & the true costs of life on the road.”
Traveling alone is fine, but having a companion is always nice—even in the world of beatmaking. Brycon (who has been producing in SF for nearly two decades) and The Architect (co-founder of Homeliss Derilex in Milpitas in the early 1990s) connected a few years back, and now present to us their first collaborative full-length album The Samsonite Survivor. It’s also nice to have a thematic vibe on your beat tape, so here the producers aim for atmospheres evocative of classic and long-forgotten films: There’s the pleasant daydream of vintage piano and strings (“Sriracha Pizza”), vaporwave-affected 80s R&B (“Love Can Be Things”), the tidy loop of a lovelorn soprano (“The Drought Myth”), and a dozen more vivid scenes.
For more like this: Check out The Shape of Things That Went, a full album released by Brycon this past June, inspired by and recorded in tribute to Ornette Coleman’s 1959 free jazz album The Shape of Jazz to Come.
