True Life - TOMC Stack Records

TOMC's second beat album in almost two years, "True Life" is an album filled with the history of beat music from the 1990s to the 2020s. The album is a combination of "deep respect for the history of jazz and soul," "sound-collage like abstract hip-hop and trip-hop," "hybrid musicality with various rhythms similar to LA beats," and "a quiet listening experience that resonates with ambient music after the lo-fi beats movement." The result is a work that combines all of these qualities. In addition, the album is unique in its deep knowledge of club culture, including medium grooves like rare grooves and neo-soul, house music, and even 2step. This album is like Nujabes' "Modal Soul" in the 2020s, and is a dense piece of sampledelia magic similar to The Avalanches, Cornelius and others. The album features three guests. H. Takahashi, the owner of Kankyo Records, where TOMC also works as a writer/reviewer, and one of the current fro...