Place: Nairobi
Place:, KMRU, Air Texture
Place: Nairobi
Boomkat Product Review:
Air Texture hand the reins of their Place series to breakthru Kenyan producer KMRU for a hot and soulful distillation of his home city scene
Across 14 tracks, including his own field recordings, KMRU turns in a guided tour of Nairobi via variegated strains of ambient dance music, killer hip hop instrumentals, Afrobeats and hyperlocal vibes that you’re simply not going to find anywhere else without a healthy amount of effort. In many cases you could be forgiven for mistaking tracks for KMRU’s own productions, with a familiarity of style and quality emerging across the set’s stylistic cadence that firmly matches KMRU’s own style of lissom deep house swerve and breezy. layered atmospheres.
Highlights come deep and hypnotic from Hakuna Kulala affiliate Janice Iche with the swaying lilt of ‘Thirsty Reggae’ and KMRU’s own sweep of the butterfly net/handheld recorder in ‘Window Stills (Field Recording)’, as well as M” with what sounds like a P-funk version of the Inspector Gadget theme tune on ‘So Unfazed’, and a tidy bit of Amapiano-compatible suss in ‘Nuru’ by Kimina, plus a slow dusky ace ‘Room 23’ by Nabalayo, and the Madlib-esque lean of ‘justfiu’ from 7headc0.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Air Texture hand the reins of their Place series to breakthru Kenyan producer KMRU for a hot and soulful distillation of his home city scene
Across 14 tracks, including his own field recordings, KMRU turns in a guided tour of Nairobi via variegated strains of ambient dance music, killer hip hop instrumentals, Afrobeats and hyperlocal vibes that you’re simply not going to find anywhere else without a healthy amount of effort. In many cases you could be forgiven for mistaking tracks for KMRU’s own productions, with a familiarity of style and quality emerging across the set’s stylistic cadence that firmly matches KMRU’s own style of lissom deep house swerve and breezy. layered atmospheres.
Highlights come deep and hypnotic from Hakuna Kulala affiliate Janice Iche with the swaying lilt of ‘Thirsty Reggae’ and KMRU’s own sweep of the butterfly net/handheld recorder in ‘Window Stills (Field Recording)’, as well as M” with what sounds like a P-funk version of the Inspector Gadget theme tune on ‘So Unfazed’, and a tidy bit of Amapiano-compatible suss in ‘Nuru’ by Kimina, plus a slow dusky ace ‘Room 23’ by Nabalayo, and the Madlib-esque lean of ‘justfiu’ from 7headc0.
Boomkat Product Review:
Air Texture hand the reins of their Place series to breakthru Kenyan producer KMRU for a hot and soulful distillation of his home city scene
Across 14 tracks, including his own field recordings, KMRU turns in a guided tour of Nairobi via variegated strains of ambient dance music, killer hip hop instrumentals, Afrobeats and hyperlocal vibes that you’re simply not going to find anywhere else without a healthy amount of effort. In many cases you could be forgiven for mistaking tracks for KMRU’s own productions, with a familiarity of style and quality emerging across the set’s stylistic cadence that firmly matches KMRU’s own style of lissom deep house swerve and breezy. layered atmospheres.
Highlights come deep and hypnotic from Hakuna Kulala affiliate Janice Iche with the swaying lilt of ‘Thirsty Reggae’ and KMRU’s own sweep of the butterfly net/handheld recorder in ‘Window Stills (Field Recording)’, as well as M” with what sounds like a P-funk version of the Inspector Gadget theme tune on ‘So Unfazed’, and a tidy bit of Amapiano-compatible suss in ‘Nuru’ by Kimina, plus a slow dusky ace ‘Room 23’ by Nabalayo, and the Madlib-esque lean of ‘justfiu’ from 7headc0.
Boomkat Product Review:
Air Texture hand the reins of their Place series to breakthru Kenyan producer KMRU for a hot and soulful distillation of his home city scene
Across 14 tracks, including his own field recordings, KMRU turns in a guided tour of Nairobi via variegated strains of ambient dance music, killer hip hop instrumentals, Afrobeats and hyperlocal vibes that you’re simply not going to find anywhere else without a healthy amount of effort. In many cases you could be forgiven for mistaking tracks for KMRU’s own productions, with a familiarity of style and quality emerging across the set’s stylistic cadence that firmly matches KMRU’s own style of lissom deep house swerve and breezy. layered atmospheres.
Highlights come deep and hypnotic from Hakuna Kulala affiliate Janice Iche with the swaying lilt of ‘Thirsty Reggae’ and KMRU’s own sweep of the butterfly net/handheld recorder in ‘Window Stills (Field Recording)’, as well as M” with what sounds like a P-funk version of the Inspector Gadget theme tune on ‘So Unfazed’, and a tidy bit of Amapiano-compatible suss in ‘Nuru’ by Kimina, plus a slow dusky ace ‘Room 23’ by Nabalayo, and the Madlib-esque lean of ‘justfiu’ from 7headc0.
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