Shitao delivers *Approaching Storm* – a project with a clear concept: seven Maxo remixes and seven beats, only on Bandcamp, only free. Maxo is an LA rapper (Def Jam) whose introspective, often melancholic style has earned a devoted following. Shitao takes his vocals and lays them over new productions, with the project's second half delivering the instrumentals separately. The conceptual frame is ambitious: from Edward Mitchell Bannister to the Minneapolis riots, a storm is coming. Bannister was a 19th-century African American landscape painter – tying him to the Minneapolis unrest draws an arc across Black American history and present. A remix project with intellectual underpinning, given away rather than sold. For heads who value both the flip and the framework, this is a thoughtful offering.
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