Instrumentals for your days off: Leavv, MicroCosmicOrbit, and 16% SUMO #Chill #HipHop #InstrumentalHipHop #StudyBeats

I’m not supposed to be working today so a triple bill of hip hop chill from Leavv, MicroCosmicOrbit, and 16% SUMO.

First up the sugary delights of Caramel. Leavv is a German-based producer who creates instrumentals full of emotion and cinematic depth. Caramel is the new single, following 2020’s album Tales of a Flowing Forest.

Caramel is super smooth instrumental hip hop. A study beats focus with a really solid thump of bass beats allied to a twin track melody of gently swaying keyboards and tinkling tones. The beats stop it disappearing into the background but manages to slow down time to a pleasing, passing blur. The melody flows like a liquid centre pouring a pleasing balm over all of life’s irritations.

Like the best Werthers Orginal (beats) you never had.

MicroCosmicOrbit is from the UK and wants to take you back. The track is Kick’N it Old School. This has that authentic crate digging air of The Avanches.

There’s a bunch of 50s/60s samples on top of an old school set of beats and a spaced out set of keyboards. It has an eclectic, experimental feel that really enhances the track. Beyond that, it’s a slow, loping groove that uses the samples to retain your attention and give interest throughout.

Since the artist name MicroCsmicOrbit is a translation of the Daoist term for a full orbiting of energy through the front and back body then it’s no wonder this track vibrates you gently but profoundly to your core.

16% SUMO is not from Japan but Sweden. His biog says. “16% SUMO is a Lo fi/chill beats project initiated by an alternative rock drummer and musician, hailing from the dark woods of southern Sweden.”

His new track is All Alone, a beautiful gentle track. Inspired by feelings of loneliness and nostalgia it mixes the crunch of lofi hip hop beats and surface noise with delicious guitar. Electronics trickle away in the background. Everything has a delicate feel of silence in the air. As if the track acts as a kind of two minute orchestra of white noise to keep the world at bay. And we can all do with a bit of that from time to time.

~ by acidted on May 20, 2022.