Hi, everyone. Muthony Sictano here, the internet's busiest music nerd. It's time for a review of this new Galen Tipton project, You Like Music.

This is the latest record from prolific producer and DJ Galen Tipton, whose new one here is being released in tandem with the underground, boundary-pushing, multidisciplinary electronic music trio, Death's Dynamic Shroud, as a part of their New World Mixtape Club series on Bandcamp, which has been a hotbed of fan exclusive creativity for several years now. I mean, it was the origin of that great faith in persona record back in 2021.

I think there are some interesting points of creative overlap between these two records. After all, it was DDS's Keith Rankin, who was the main brain behind that faith in persona record. And from what I understand, Keith is the main point of collaborative contact for Galen on this new record, too. So of course, on this new one, there are lots of driving, danceable, electronic beats, groovy and intense rhythmic sequences abound, though I think Galen's beats tend to be a lot more clubby during the care-free moments of this record. And another important consistence frequency across these two albums is, of course, sampling.

Plunderphonics. Pretty much every track on this thing, to some degree, seems like it contains samples. Many of them vocal samples that are edited down into these tiny, stuttering, microscopic little snippets and just repeated ad nauseam, but of course, with enough variations across the length of any track to keep things interesting. Some essential highlights to these. There's the title track, "Rapper Rapper," whose driving kicks persistent beats and its altered samples feel oddly reminiscent of when Death Grips was working with all of those Bjork samples on NOTM. Galen's work on track is similarly hyper, groovy, bright. On here, right. These squey sample shots all over "Generate Utopia" combined with the polyrhythmic details. And the beat on that one makes me feel like I'm listening to a futuristic vaporwave drum circle.

Meanwhile, "Drifting on Bethel" is just another level of jittery. Then toward the back end of the record, things begin to take a more dramatic approach, insrumatically and rhythmically, namely on "Crypto Resort Grift." Then "No Dreams Smoke Tip" is a club banger. No worries, if not, is an experimental pain statement on love and loneliness to my ears. Then the closing track is this linear building epic that incorporates elements of post-rock, vaporwave, glitch, and electronic music.

All around super solid, super impressive, creative album that for Galen and DDS, no surprises here, continues to really bend the conceptions of what electronic music can be. Which is why I'm feeling a strong 8 on this one.

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