THE REPORT: 2/28/25
RICO NASTY FULFILLS HER RAP ROCK DESTINY
Rico Nasty “TEETHSUCKER (YEA3K)”
My 2010s rap rock dreams have come true: Rico Nasty signed to Fueled by Ramen. Hopefully, that means she will get to perform at a stop on the rebooted Warped Tour. It’s only right! This track, though? It feels like MLB promo music. It’s got that Mike Dean fuzz bass doing a blues dad thing. It’s one step away from being royalty-free, but that’s fine. If I heard it while eating at a Buffalo Wild Wings, I wouldn’t be upset.
Out of the Hot Topic and into the VFW hall, SPY are Bay Area hardcore heroes who recently dropped ten minutes of new music. The song title: “Stay In Your Lane.” The EP title: Seen Enough. I think it’s safe to say that these guys are painting a little bit of a picture. The tune is a grizzled stomper that has me scrunching my face and pretending like I lift weights. Poseur alert!
Infinity Division “Like Heaven (Basek Remix)”
There are many different ways to make hardcore. Basek goes the breakbeat route. The legendary gearhead laced this remix just right, hitting it with grated Amens and zesty acid bass. It’s 2004. Basek is banging breakcore out of a Gameboy at a basement show in Milwaukee. You weren’t there.
bod [包家巷] + Æthereal Arthropod “parabrutality—1”
It wouldn’t be hard to make the argument that “parabrutality—1” is harder than the above two hardcore tracks combined. Not better, not worse. Just harder. I mean, it better be: it’s a damn noise cut. In a more interesting world, it would soundtrack the next edition of the Saw franchise. It’s not hard to picture Jigsaw behind a noise table. He already has the mask.
You want more twisted electronica? The drop here turned my dome into putty; the second time around, that putty reformed into a basketball and shot itself into the air, where it flew unimpeded until it finally crashed into a dubstep DJ in Boulder.
Ericwiththeglockinhissock x Treyoo Babyy “On the radar freestyle”
For whatever it’s worth: This is not an officially sanctioned On The Radar freestyle, the capitalization choices are intentional, and the video was shot in a laundromat. It’s a new Milwaukee lowend track; it features a flip of a 1990s rap song classic enough that I don’t think I need to call it out. One of the catchier Culver’s bounce tunes I’ve heard in a minute.
MIX OF THE WEEK: “RA.977 - EldiaNYC”
Two John’s Music Blog vets—Dazegxd and gum.mp3—team up with Swami Sound for 90 minutes of dance music with a nice upward curve. In a strike of Zoomer rave brilliance, they mix “Bring in the Katz” by KW Griff and Porkchop out of “Free” by Ultra Naté. After that, it’s off to the damn races. I hadn’t heard “The Courts” by Jam City in a long time, but it hits hard taken out of its blog bass context, jammed up with a million other styles.
not Culver's bounce