![]() ![]() And Clams is giving them to you for free. Stripped bare of lyrics and raps, these instrumentals stand on their own as fully realized songs, some sort of hip-hop-ambient-electro-dub hybrids. Instrumental Mixtape, Clams’ debut album, is a collection of some of his strongest beats. Lil’ B, Havoc of Mobb Deep, A$AP Rocky, Soulja Boy). He’s made beats for some of the most hyped up-and-comers (e.g. ![]() HOWEVER, if you just can’t help yourself, here are the cliffs notes: Clams Casino, aka Mike Volpe, is a 24-year-0ld producer/physical therapy student from New Jersey. So I recommend skipping to the bottom of this post and just grabbing the album. And I think the more you know about the actual creative process behind this album, the more that mysticism is stripped away. But it’s about as alien a place for our conscious minds to be as any. It’s some place we’ve all been before, and that gives it a feeling of comfort and safety. Like maybe being back in the womb after thirty years outside of it. ![]() It feels both undeniably alien and inescapably familiar. As interesting as Clams Casino’s story is, the music is better heard without any context. ![]()
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