Cassette Review // The Dirty Sample "Beats To Murder Rappers 2"

https://handsolorecords.bandcamp.com/album/beats-to-murder-rappers-2

This cassette is instrumental except for audio clips which can come out during the songs.  It can feel lo-fi and chill at times, but it's also rather haunted.  For example on the first song- "Easy Prey"- you'll hear an audio clip say "prey prey prey" but that's the only words.  There is also an audio clip that says "I don't think we're getting paid enough for this, gentlemen" which I like and then throughout the second song there is a dog barking.  The tones feel haunted while someone tells a stranger to get inside since it's after dark.  Slip beats on "Get Inside" as well, as I'm reminded of Cypress Hill.  The line "Sometimes it is best to accept the unexplainable" is something we could all use hearing at times.

"The faster you run, the quicker you die" comes out with all around horror movie vibes.  Deep, submarine type tones bring out this dragging of a chain.  "Do monsters walk among us?" and I'm reminded of the theme music for Samoa Joe, which in itself is a nod to Godzilla, another monster.  There is an almost mechanical way about "I Knew He'd Never Return" but by "You Can't Win" you'll hear an audio clip which says "This whole thing sounds like a nightmare".  This rings true not in the way that the music is bad but that you wouldn't want to play it while trying to sleep because this feel less like what you think of with rappers and murder and more like murder-murder, like serial killers and graveyards.  

On the flip side we start with beats like clapping.  You can hear the pianos like clipping and this feels like the perfect introduction to violence.  This can feel like it is taking on a hypnotic tone as well, as this pattern repeats.  An audio clip about a full moon which is leading up to a wolfman.  The suspense is here now, on "Don't Forget the Cross".   More audio clips coming through with the beats ringing and scattered piano keys.   Tones feel magical and then it's into those big beats.  Some rather unsettling singing has come in now and it will leave you ready to fight.   You will find yourself nodding your head along with a lot of this though.

That dog barking returns and then we shift into another song wtih an audio clip about Satan coming.  Organ tones come in with moaning and then we shift into these space synths which also bring out the drama.  This feels like a lot of fun, bouncing around in space, but at the same time, if you're an opposing spaceship you might not want to be part of this battle.  Audio clips now come in about witches having magic circles to protect them and that is important because if you're going to be facing an opponent then you must stay within the circle to take no damage.  You can hear this rattling like bones and this side feels haunted but in a different way than the first side.

An audio clip now takes us into "I Can't Make It Go" and I'm not sure what that is a reference to exactly.  These beats are fun though, with lasers and effects behind them cutting through.  This just feels like something you could sing along with even though there aren't any words.  A door creaks and then a "Who are you?" as we go into different beats now.  More moaning.  There is a sort of trumpet sound in here as well now.  And now an audio clip says "Everybody hates you" and it turns into murder.  An audio clip says "You're a killer" and that's how this all ends, which really just puts the final nail in the coffin.