Bolts - Hagop Tchaparian (2022)
Vacation time: I’m on a family road trip, so I’m leveraging my large backlog of un-Substacked blog posts. This one was originally posted Nov 20, 2022. It’s been edited for clarity, spelling, and whether I still feel that way. Go to the original to find lots more music posts and better linking between them.
This recently showed up in the new releases and I’ve been listening to it a lot.
It slips effortlessly from calm atmospherics to intense beat workouts. Samples of exotic instruments complement the modern dance drum programming very well. There’s so much texture here, you could listen 20 times and still hear something new.
Ed. Listening again briefly as I repost, it hasn’t lost any of that novelty. It’s still a fun listen, full of energy and not something you’re going to hear from elsewhere.
Tracks I Liked
GL - great stuff
Escape - a trippy little respite from the faster tempos
Right To Riot - tense, paranoid build-and-release energy
