Aspiring Fashion Designer Phil "BLKrKRT" Ford Stitches Together Final Album Before Retirement, Post-Dilla Instrumental Hip-Hop "Love Letter to Boom-Bap" BLKrKRT LP II (The Witzard Premiere)

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"I'm a lover of the

Avant-Garde

, Abstract, and

Electronic

[music.] My work is about the subjective nature of human experience through art, it's effects on the human psyche, and the efforts to create elegant, yet basic shapes, usually utilizing a post-

Internet

methodology. I like cutting up things and re-purposing them. I love to collaborate, especially via

The Internet

. I am a product of remix culture. I love to use samples, clip art, and font. I adore collage. Currently, I am actively pursuing an adventure in fashion design,"

Fort Worth, Texas

-based

Instrumental Hip-Hop

producer

BLKrKRT (Phil Ford)

wrote within his

about.me

profile. I actually met

BLKrKRT

through my frequent collaborator and friend

Darko The Super

, who released Ford's

The Witzard-premiered

Okinato Black

on his

U DONT DESERVE THIS BEAUTIFUL ART

imprint.

Darko

actually flipped

Okinato Black

's

"3,000 Words"

into

"God, F**k America"

from his recent

Rock

sample-based album,

Apocalyptic Bastard

, as well as another beat from the album for

"A Very Darko Christmas."

Since releasing

Okinato Black

in December 2016 and announcing his impending retirement from music to peruse a career in fashion design,

Phil Ford

has released an album's-worth of "microwave beats,"

Precious Metals, Heavy Gems II

and an album of contagious rhythms and impassioned melodies called

i n d i g o_2 . 0

. Now, enter:

BLKrKRT LP II

, the proper follow-up to his 2016

BLKrKRT LP

, which will likely be

Phil Ford

's final self-released album before retiring and his fourth album since

Okinato Black

(just four months ago!)

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Phil Ford

described his

BLKrKRT LP II

, via email, as "a love letter to Boom-Bap. My inspirations were cocooning,

YouTube

e-digging, musical grit and noise, harmonics, analog warmth and thick EQ's of late 90's

Hip-Hop

, the duality of life that human inexplicably create, and the unresolved feelings we have when something has ended. This album is a celebration of my musical pursuits up until this point and feels like a good stopping point."

BLKrKRT LP II

is quite fittingly tagged on Ford's

Scenster Bandcamp

page as: .wav,

abstract

, beat culture,

boom-bap

, electronica,

experimental

, fort worth,

instrumental hip-hop

, post-dilla,

poor stylus

, sample-based,

Texas

. "The original

BLKrKRT LP

(2016) was presented as a day-in-the-life... whereas part II follows more of an internal narrative about self-belief, doubt, the acceptance of limitation, and the liberation from old pursuits in favor of new ones. The elements of the album are mostly improvised... stripped down sample-based works, exploring riffs and basslines. Rather than the more subdued, gritty and crunchy

lo-fi

sound, here the more finely EQ'ed, wide, spatial mix technique was more fitting, reminiscent of a late 90's vinyl-listening experience... including dirt, slight over-loading, warm receiver response, and bad stylus blip in tow,"

BLKrKRT

fondly detailed. Although it's labelled as

Post-Dilla Instrumental Hip-Hop

,

BLKrKRT LP II

is very evocative of

J Dilla

's magnum opus

Donuts

, Electronic-based Ruff Draft EP, rapper-producer album

Champion Sound

with

Madlib

(as

Jaylib

,) and even his late 90's-early 2000's work with the

Soulquarians

collective.

BLKrKRT LP II

is currently available on

Phil Ford

's

Scenster Bandcamp

page, which just reached the 10,000 digital downloads benchmark, along with roughly 43 past self-released albums, mixtapes, beat tapes, and EP's spanning his 6-year career.

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