Mimar the Beat Curator’s Weekly Spotlight - the week of August 26th: L.P. (Lost Perfection)
This week I’m
shining my little, slightly defective flashlight on L.P. I first heard him right about when he released this track on
soundcloud—a kind of tripped out, Pete Rock meets Rob Swift type of beat that I
played out by listening to too many times. Anyway, back to the present, and he
put this new track up, another very solid track which I've nearly played out in the same fashion; so I thought it was high-time I paid my
respects to L.P. here in my second entry as ‘Mimar the Beat Curator.’
This week it’s L.P’s track, Groovin’, though he’s worth a follow and a
thorough listening beyond just the one track. It’s actually been two months
since this track was put up, but I heard it and knew it needed to be mentioned
here, as well as his whole body of work, which is pretty damned enjoyable
to listen to. The Raydar Ellis mix just seemed far too fitting as a first entry, so I held off on this one. Still though, L.P. deserves the spotlight.
The Brazilian sampling off this track is
phenomenal—it’s been a while since I’ve messed with any Brazilian samples myself, but
for those unfamiliar with the process of 'beat-making' there are periods of time when certain types
of samples, or samples from certain regions and local genres get really big; whereas we’re now
in the middle of a Turkish psychedelic epidemic (of which I’m fully on board
with—love the shit), there was a time not long ago when these Brazilian
jazz/bossa nova-styled beats were really making their rounds. I think any
decent beat-maker has a good bit of Brazilian music, and probably gets excited
at the prospect of messing around with samples from that grouping. Anyway, this track here
is a great example of Brazilian sample usage. L.P., of Groningen, in the Netherlands, is a
master of the craft, and I hope the man catches on, as his talent is deserving of
it. Anyway, enjoy the beats.
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