-tape1 [mixtape] by zzile!

Experimental Hip Hop mixtape by zzile!.

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taken from albumoftheyear.org
https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/zzile/album/1250316--tape1/

music has always been a form of escapism for me. what started as a fun hobby in late 2017/2018 evolved into me saying what i have on my mind in 2020 on 'zziletape!', intentionally not in my native language so no one around me knew what i was talking about. while that album did have some creative moments on it, in particular because of my inexperience in making music. the ramp up to where i am now was really slow, so even though 'zziletape!' was formally my third album, i dont think i would perfect the ideas until either 'comes and goes' from 'AI', 'GRADUATION', where the songs structurally made sense, or 'single pack 1: 1st semester', where i learned about mastering (4 years into making music by the way). my attempts to branch out also began here, where songs from 'GRADUATION' like 'RARE Occasion (freestyle)' and 'you can let go !!!' as well as 'NOT MUCH', 'STOP MEe' and 'FORGIVING MYSELF' from 'single pack 1: 1st semester'. although these songs lean fairly heavily out of the Trap / Hip Hop box i put myself with the first two releases under zzile!, i didnt feel the desire to really get out of my shell until i finished the two "beat_tape" tracks from 'single pack 2: difficulties', where i really got into it with the fun ideas, neglecting the focus i put into my amateurish writing and letting my experience in producing, which i do fifteen times as much as recording, really shine through.

i credit those two tracks as the main inspiration behind what lead to this mixtape. even if i released a fairly "normal" album in 'x3', i claimed multiple times that 'x3' will be the last "normal" album from me - my chance to prove that i can make commercially viable music as an non-commercially viable artist. i say that because the only persom im proving anything to is myself - none of my irls actually care about what i make and dismiss it, and i understand that because i likely wont ever see them after uni, thats just the way life goes. my online following before AOTY was nonexistent either - i ruined any opportinity i ever had with my first foot out the door, the toes stuck in the DDLC comminuty from 'Sayo-Nara Remix' and the heel catfishing poor XXXTENTACION fans by titling a song from 'zziletape!' after a song of X's not on DSPs, effectively making any new listeners automatically turn off the song after they hear a white 16 year old over a near-parody of what they were looking for and telling the algorighms that the song failed to hook them in.

so, what would i do to counteract the pent up frustrations i have against how my journey as a musician through the online communities? well, nothing really. i kept chugging away, exploring many avenues and potential outlets. i talked about this a little in the individual descriptions for the songs on 'zzile! supporter package 2024', but i have been trying many things, whether it would be that Wave alias that never came alive, the "zzalt!" SoundCloud account which then housed a dozen instrumentals i planned to keep releasing weekly, the Also, be safe project and scattering my "unworthy" material across SoundCloud, Newgrounds and YouTube. this "unworthy" material excludes stuff like remixes i make, but includes stuff like '>blues clues<' and 'how yu feel?**' from SoundCloud and 'comewatchthesunset' along with other songs from Newgrounds. "unworthy" isnt really fair, because in reality, these songs didnt live up to the standard ive set for myself internally, so these songs were an opportunity to make something out of my comfort zone and just put it out there.

and so i did. i kept putting stuff out there until at some point in 2024 i had put out three songs which had this boosted Electronic sound with a loose Hip Hop composition underneath - a sound that i call "overblown". i was sending these songs off to the seas of Newgrounds as exclusives, never originally intended to go anywhere. but i added them to my humongous shuffle playlist and i kept queueing them up, first i did it in the release order, then i started twisting them. by the fourth time it clicked - this is the best opportunity for me to live up to what i said about 'x3'. this is my opportunity to make "overblown" music a thing. i twisted the knife a few more times, feeling out the concept, and later got to work. after roughly 6 months of working part-time over the concept of "overblown" music, i can finally present you with '-tape1' - a vision, an idea and anger, collected in a bottle and concentrated in just over 20 minutes.

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