Nathan Kawanishi x Fletcher Reed – Essential Mystic
“There is no stronger drug in the world than music, and when it is still shrouded in a warm-hop warm wave, then your pleasure has no limit. The wandering melody so gently and harmoniously walks around the stereo that you feel like a fallen star that scattered to the ground with billions of fragments.” (Automatically Translated with Google Translate)
“Нет в мире более сильного наркотика, чем музыка, а когда она ещё окутана теплой волной chill-hop, то вашему наслаждению нет предела. Блуждающая мелодия так нежно и гармонично гуляет по всему стерео полю, что чувствуешь себя упавшей звездой, которая рассыпалась на землю миллиардами осколков.”
-Nagamag.com
"This mixtape consists of a bunch of unreleased songs that Fletcher Reed and I had laying around," reflects Nathan Kawanishi about the album "Recycled Tape." "We sent them to each other to finish (or salvage), hence the name of the tape. There was really no formula, sometimes only minor tweaks were made and at other times the new track sounds entirely different from the old one. All of the production and mixing roles were also very free-flowing, with both of us alternating on the drums, engineering, and main instruments. The result is a project that hopefully feels very much like an organic mixtape instead of a linear album."
Reviewed by Nagamag on June 26, 2022