WIDE Recommends: #0001
WIDE is an ample-spectre carrot. In our role as a radio station, we’re confident in our impeccable musical palate and our razor sharp wits to provide you with astoundingly accurate opinions in regards to the latest musical productions of our day and age. Modesty aside, our main goal is to promote and spread the work of the up and coming artists who work day and night to keep us busy with beautiful stuff (instead of icky, the-stuff-of-life, everyday reality drama).
A revision of reggaeton classics by a venezuelan producer, an indonesian rapper who drops his bars as he pirouettes on ice skates and exquisite R&B and gummy Pop tracks from Europe. These are – from our humble perspective, of course – the five best releases of the week.
1. Rich Brian — “Cold”
With an excellent timing for the upcoming Winter Olympics, the latest favourite star of 88rising, asian rapper Rich Brian presents the first single of his long awaited debut album Amen – published just a couple weeks ago – with the video for “Cold”: an amazing synchrony of existential sadboy rap with delicate (and dizzying) ice skating moves. 88rising’s music is, totally, a thing, as it’s become a home for the new generations of asian talent. No doubt, we’ll be keeping track of them.
2. VFRO — “Chulo Sin H”
Enter VFRO with his Reggaeton Edits, a mixtape para pegarla del suelo (a sophisticate practice in perreo that consists of bringing your booty all the way down to the floor). Revisiting oldschool reggaetón classics, “Chulo Sin H”* is his first little gift to us, a futuristic version of the track made by Jowel & Randy’s featuring De La Guetto from 2013, adorned by the contributions of VFRO and Diego Raposo.
* Meaning “Chulo without the H”, a transformation of the spanish for Pimp “Chulo” to “Culo”, which designates the sweet area known as “the hindparts”.
3. Rejjie Snow — “Désolé” LA Sessions
The Irish rapper Rejjie Snow is flexing his media promotion muscle for his debut LP Dear Annie, launched about a week ago. In the manner of an entrée, he’s chosen to delight us with a video for the exquisite “Désolé”, part of a series of clips from his LA Sessions packed in a vintage A E S T H E T I C, with the shaky pulse and the pasty image resolution of VHS tapes. Take a peek of his previous release: “Egyptian Luvr”.
4. RAYE (feat. Mabel & Stefflon Don) — “Cigarette”
RAYE – who took the third place at the BBC Sound 2017 – joined forces with two brit singers, Mabel and Stefflon Don, to tailor “Cigarette”, a poppy spoonful of sugar of a track for a glance at her long awaited debut LP.
5. Lion Babe — “Honey Dew”
New York’s R&B duo, Lion Babe, released the seductive “Honey Dew”, produced by Simen Sex. A track of hypnotic sensuality, painted over a background of bluesy piano chords accompanied by a very delicate and syncopated percussion, a bass and a gummy synth like a sonic woolen jumper to dress Jillian Hervey’s soothing delivery, which delivers the final blow to make us fall irremediably in love.
