Various Artists - Chillhop: Spring Essentials 2023 (Various Artsists)

Various Artists - Chillhop: Spring Essentials 2023 (Various Artsists)With over 40 musicians across 28 tracks, Essentials Spring 2023 might be our most treasured one yet. Featuring a who's who of some of our favorite musicians in the community, we present a 2xLP to keep everyone vibrant and alive as the seasons change and days start to warm. Essentials Spring 2023 features recent Chillhop beat tape alumni like El Train, Evil Needle, illiterate, and Mr. Slipz, while also showcasing songs from familiars like Oatmello,

in-your-face and endearingly strange

this dynamic duo pull off some of the bluesiest ball busters of all-time like "Taken

What So Not is the Gold-selling

Being lined up against such contemporaries as Black Dog Productions (Balil and Plaid) Aphex under his Polygon Window guise

this album furthered the degradation of the Cocks audio template of twisted drum loops

"Light Blue"

" the first track from The Essex Green's fourth outing

Tad and Skin Yard along with the slightly more contemporary garage stylings of Jay Reatard and Ty Segall

'Smash It Up' (Parts 1 and 2)'

Winning praise from critics and colleagues alike

"I am coherent with what I do

and Dustin Robert [drums]- the album traces a wild and exhilarating roadmap through Taylor's musical psyche