As someone who has been producing, writing, advising, and arranging songs, doing it alone on my foundational years was scary because you want to put out a product that you can be proud of, but TRXPSCO’s newest album of the same name did that unthinkable and did everything alone. Let me discuss the tracks in depth and read why this album is a banger.
The first track of the album, ‘MADE2GETPAID’ has this interesting keyboard sample lick alongside that hypnotic drum sample, making you want to listen on repeat because of how simple and catchy the track is. I mean, coming from someone who wrote, recorded, and produced his own songs for the first time is already a feat to begin with.
What I specifically like about the second track of the album, ‘STANDING ON PIMPING’, is the unusual beat sample alongside that bass keyboard sample that makes you want to groove your way to the song.
It’s unusual because it has this bouncy vocal flow and the drum sample is not the least thing you expect to be added in the track alongside the keyboard sample that’s why It’s a little bit uncomfortable if you look at it from someone that knows a thing or two about producing and creating songs, but cool enough to say, ‘sure it broke some rules but it’s a banger’
The cheap keyboard tone sample in the beginning and throughout ‘POP IT ENOUGH’ carried this track to relevance. We are three songs in, and I can already see a pattern here. There’s a thing about collective dissonance that makes opposites attract. What I mean to say is, there are certain things that should not work in the context of creating music, but it still worked.
Like the cheap keyboard link sample in ‘POP IT ENOUGH’ or the beat sample in ‘STANDING ON PIMPING.’ It should’ve never worked, but it did its magic, and for that, I bow my head. That’s confidence and interest working at play.
‘FAG FEVER’ has that collective dissonance in terms of how the beat sample should have never connected with the keyboard lick, but it did its thing, and now it’s cool, like watching Picasso do art, or Prince play a guitar. It’s hard not to bop your head.
‘SICK 16’ has that peculiar backing vocals that make you question creativity because of how cool it sounds. The vocal phrasing is top-tier, too. The song arrangement is interesting because it has that dark influence to it, but still carries that angst.
The collective dissonance is present on ‘OBS’. A couple of these tracks are not the most compelling, to say the least, but the way it’s arranged and how hard they go down makes you forget all that and just listen to the music and how it feels.
‘ROCKSTAR PIMPING’ has this guitar sample that elevated the track to a different level. I don’t know if it was supposed to sound like it came from a keyboard or if it was supposed to sound cheap, but if you look at it from a creative perspective, it hits the right spot that every creator dreams of. The idea of being one with your music, and besides, it works with the track, and that’s what matters.
And to close the album, we have ‘ACTIVE & ATTRACTIVE’ which, from the word itself, got traction for me because of its length. It’s the short track of the album, but it still delivers what it needs. That raw angst that only TRXPSCO can produce.
As someone who has been producing, writing, advising, and arranging music for quite a while now, I must say that TRXPSCO’s move to doing it independently took off right. You can hear the unfiltered takes, the deep cuts, and the oozing creativity that artists are always aiming for.
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He has been in the music industry for two and a half decades. Currently, he plays bass guitar for a rock-reggae band called EnjointPh and a funk-fusion trio called Banky. He also hosts a podcast titled Usapang Musiko with Ervin Besana, which explores topics such as music, arts, and philosophy.
