OALA by TatzumaKiii
OALA is an adrenaline fuelled homage to beat culture, the beat scene, and beat music.
DISCLAIMER: If your musical preference is limited too Lofi beats to study too, Chillhop or Vaporwave, PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR PHYSICIAN BEFORE LISTENING TO THIS TAPE. This tape contains violent and aggressive levels of head nod factor that your body may not be accustomed too. It is strongly advised that if your unfamiliar with high octane cosmic beat shit to start with a small dose.
THIS ALBUM IS DEDICATED TO THE LA BEAT SCENE and it’s foundational members: TAKE, KUTMAH, DADDY KEV, DJ NOBODY, DIBIA$E, DAEDALUS, TOKIMONSTA, NOSAJTHING, SHLOHMO, FLYING LOTUS, RAS G, GASLAMP KILLER, TEEBS, SAMIYAM
I’m a seed that grew from what you guys planted…
MUSIC REVIEW:
The Best Beat Tapes on Bandcamp: October 2021
By Max Bell
Los Angeles was the hub of the beat scene, but the crushing amalgams of hip-hop, electronic, and more that blared from the Low End Theory sound system and bedroom studios across L.A.’s sprawl influenced countless producers around the globe. Louisville, Kentucky native TatzumaKiii is one of those disciples; his debut OALA—“a compilation of spaced-out future beat shit”—was born from the groundbreaking work of Dibia$e, Flying Lotus, Ras G, and the L.A. beat scene’s many foundational figures. TatzumaKiii backs beeps, blips, and synth melodies that sound sourced from the cosmos with neck-snapping drums over several iterations of beat music. On “KOJiRO,” soft synths rise, fall, and distort as he deploys shuffling kicks and snares to create subdued footwork. The bubbling, warbling, and glitchy boom-bap of opener “KOZMiC” coexists with the bumping, extraterrestrial funk of “ESPRESSO BEAN CaNNON,” where a woozy, writhing bassline and chest-caving, off-kilter drums combine to further cement George Clinton’s influence on L.A. beat music. Though TatzumaKiii is openly indebted to his predecessors, that reverence never distracts from his ability to reinvent.
Tracklist
| 1. | KOZMiC | 1:50 |
| 2. | ENDTRO | 0:56 |
| 3. | ELEV8TiON | 1:48 |
| 4. | LiGHTZOUT | 2:27 |
| 5. | KOJiRO | 1:30 |
| 6. | ONE 4 SUPAH | 2:25 |
| 7. | FiREBUGZZ | 1:23 |
| 8. | PLANET NORTH KAi | 1:47 |
| 9. | ESPRESSO BEAN CaNNON | 1:50 |
| 10. | BRaNDY | 1:45 |
| 11. | FRiEZA oMEGA | 1:51 |
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Credits
NameKiiian Sound Records
Album Art by SUPAHDUPAH and IronFeather
Composed with Elf Audio’s Koala Sampler
Mixed by TatzumaKiii
Mastered by LANDR
License
All rights reserved.
Beatmaker from Planet Namek🪐.
Nintendo games and cartoons fuelled the first spark of Tatzu’s fascination with music.
TatzumaKiii’s creative process relies on using limited samplers to create complex compositions, as opposed to omnipotent Digital Audio Workstations.
His preference is to use limitations to create something impossible
Instead of creating something possible without limitation