The Alchemist - CYCLES (Discussion Thread)

[T.H.E. Goat]

Alc on some Gary Numan shyt

 

[mbewane]

Love this type of stuff. Low-key pissed that Muggs and ALC are basically having the career I hoped Rza would be having, with all collabs and more artistic side-projects

 

[SilverSamurai]

This is giving me Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross vibes

I've always hoped that Alc would go to scoring films at a point

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Alc on some Gary Numan shyt

hmmm let me check

 

[Heavy_Handz]

I would love to hear Alchemist score a full length feature film

 

[Ironman]

 

[Jx2]

Yo you know whats crazy? I been focusing on Alchemist development recently and i realised that as much as people take him for a sample/loop master ... If you listen to his work in early 2000's youll find that he didnt even use samples ... it was HEAVY drums and crazy synth patterns

Alc has been a master with synths from EARLY

and dude did the GTA 5 score ... I think a lot of his recent music sounds like he sampled, but actually I think he just using very simple synth loops that sounds like some 80s shyt.

Alc music is too clean, you just know at this point that he aint sampling

It's probably a mix of both. Dude's walls are stacked 15 ft high with records on each side, he samples

 

[areohbee824]

Finally checked this out, really dope. I’m a little disappointed that dolphin pulling up to the dude with the joint that Al posted on IG isn’t in the movie

 

[HollywoodP]

the video is wild

 

[Bruce LeRoy]

So this is more in tune with A Painter and an Alchemist Walk in to a Bar? That project was one of the better instrumental albums I've heard from him.

Rays of Light is...

 

[u mad son?]

Jus blazed a fat zoot and watched this in its entirety

This is genius. This is art.

Goldwatch did with visuals, what Alc does with audio.

This isnt the first time though

The Alchemist feat Conway , Schoolboy Q & Westside Gunn - "Fork In The Pot" - YouTube

theres so much to unpack in just this 3 mins.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

So this is more in tune with A Painter and an Alchemist Walk in to a Bar? That project was one of the better instrumental albums I've heard from him.

Rays of Light is...

this honestly isn't even a beat tape man. Not even really instrumentals, because nothing repeats. It's a straight up short film score. There's no loops or chops or drums. It's basically just him playing live synth keyboards and making soundcscapes. It also seems like there's a theme of it following the path of a psychedelic drug trip. It's definitely outside the box of hip-hop. It's more like a John Carpenter or Trent Reznor movie score kind of thing.

That Painter project was fire though

 

[Morose Polymath]

The video for this shyt is weird

Thats all I got

 

[Phantom Dreamer]

this shyt is brilliant.

 

[keepitrealprk]

yeah its damn good. not a surprise, but alc keeps blessing us.