Sampling can pretty much be taken as a standard in any form of music these days, but it’s still hip hop that does it best. The Reeflex is a producer who, by his own admission, isn’t sure whether his music even fits into that category, but taking the raps of other people and alternating them with clips taken from seminal 90′s movies, he’s managed to make release halfway between EP and LP that is both beautifully crafted and wickedly invented. The temptation when using anything from any other artist is to skew it and alter it until it’s a shell of it’s former self -pitch altered, tempo increased and barely enjoyable to anyone other than the person that mangled it. The Reeflex gives them space, tampering as little as possible, which in turn exposes his beats for they are – luscious, carefree and languid in their excellence.
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