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New Kotetsu (From Picnic Disco): MAVTAPE 1

ByPatrick St. Michel April 30, 2017May 1, 2017

It takes a lot to elevate a beat tape from Bandcamp loosie to something absorbing on its own, but Kotetsu from Picnic Disco pulls it off the rare feet with the disorienting MAVTAPE 1. Based on how they describe it — “chill&vapot-trap beats” — I was bracing for something like one of those YouTube mixes…

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Tasty Beat: Picnicdisco’s “Backseat”

ByPatrick St. Michel June 9, 2016

The Picnicdisco project has been going since 2010, and has released a lot of material in that time (this album is a good [and available!] entry point, and features a song called “Haino Keiji Is Playing At My House” so you know it’s good). They are pretty madcap, jumping from synth-guided numbers to rap bouncers…