Lan Amore - "Dreamcast" [prod. RUDY] (Video)

Gotta be honest - I hit play on this one because of the production credit but I have replayed and ran the record back a few times because of the overall wave of the complete package.

Lan Amore's "Dreamcast" is a vibe, presented in a simultaneously simple yet complex product. The track, in it's entirety, is a wonderful workshop on duality - it's dark and uplifting, humble and self-assured, self-aware and lost in self-discovery. And Amore is hardly "rapping" in a fashion one may have come to expect a hip-hop artist to deliver their prose. "Dreamcast" flows like a casual stroll, more like a poet reading a poem than a rapper spitting a verse.

The light atmosphere created through the production serves as a form-fitting backdrop for Amore's content and delivery. Amore floats over RUDY's instrumentation with grace, picking up and slowing down his pace and flow to the beat pristinely. The low-budget, DIY energy of the visual only heightens the overall enigma of what "Dreamcast" brings to the table sonically. It's an interesting juxtaposition of energies present in the video that couples well with the the track itself, both in regards to the lyrics and production.

I don't know much of anything about who Lan Amore is but RUDY brought me to his sounds and I'm certainly intrigued enough by this record to stick around and see what else the young artist has to offer.

Hit play on "Dreamcast" below.

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