Style: Instrumental hip hop, jazzy hip hop
Primary Emotions/Themes: Chilled out beats
Thoughts: I don't have much instrumental hip hop in my collection. What I do have though I tend to enjoy quite a bit. When I find a genre I enjoy I try to find music that is as affordable as it is enjoyable. Usually that leads into some pretty deep dives into the genre to find records that fit both criterion.
I found this Flowtec record on one such excursion. I found a label that specialized in hip hop and went to their instrumental section. I found this record for less than ten bucks and after listening to the digital a few times I figured it was good enough to add to the collection.
vbn.hgh is a beat driven album. The accompanying music and samples range from jazz, to blues, to music that wouldn't be out of place in a 1970's television show. All of that is almost secondary though to the way the beats are composed. They are the glue that holds the album together, the common DNA of the album if you will.
The songs are short, and - for those familiar with vaporwave - have a bit of a signalwave feel to them. They tend to focus on one or two melodies or beats for a minute or two and then quickly move on to the next subject. One song will have a piano and upright bass playing over people talking, the next will quickly move to conversations had on a street corner with one of the aforementioned television show themes playing.
Flowtec is an artist I know next to nothing about, and I prefer to keep it that way. This album is excellent in its own rite, and the less I know about the artist the more I can appreciate the music for what it is. This is the kind of oddball album I love to have in my collection for those days when I need something a little different.
Written September 19th 2024
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