OFF BEAT

Kaelin is a producer, from his last album to this one he has shown this in spades - with instrumentals that I find myself bumping long after its first listen. His first album THE FUNK WILL PREVAIL and especially the song TRIPPIN lived rent free in my head for almost a year once I heard it and found itself to the top of my Spotify Wrapped at the same time. But how does this album stack up to it? From what I’ve said already it would be big shoes to fill and I think that it handles it well - it has been happy listening throughout.

The differences in the two albums becomes quickly apparent after the first listen. Where the previous stood out because of the immaculate use of vocal samples in its production (sorry if thats not the right classification, but there is a good bit of singing on this one). The latest offering of OFF BEAT is almost pure instrumentation other than the intro starting with what seems to be a catchphrase.

Following this, we are treated to instruments galore with a lot of the drum tracks being a standout for me.

If I was going to state a negative; I would say that the tracks could be longer. With tracks like resolution by the time it drops and your truly vibing… It has finished and you’re onto the next track. It’s less of a feeling of being left wanting more and feeling like you were short changed a little bit.

I don’t pretend to know what it takes to put together a cohesive project myself. But I do think the solution would have been for some of these songs to get a few more loops in. I just wanted to hear more, before going back to the beginning.

Overall, love Kaelin’s latest offering and I can’t wait to see what his next project has in store. Hopefully, it will be a mixture of this one and his last and maybe even have some other artists in the features column? I really want to hear people on his production. but presently I may not have to look too far for this. His collab album with the wonderful Iman Europe Moneymorphosis might just keep me going. The homework for you guys is to listen to these grooves, it shouldn’t be skipped and while your at it, check out the funky visuals from his Youtube channel below.