knxwledge - "hud dreems" review

high school music - there's that video of him playing around w jstowee on his laptop w a nanokontrol & an audiohub in the stones throw basement. i was borrowing a nanokontrol from paco (still have it 10yrs later sorry) and was like omg i have that too. and then ended up with an audiohub shortly after thx to that vid prolly. and that was my audio interface until i got a soundcraft notepad in 2020. and the stones throw stuff, breakfast with ringgo, u know, that was to me the ultimate ideal life, my little closeted mind saw this scene as true paradise, so, the la beats stuff from the 2010s was so inspiring, it doesn't translate beyond itself really, it was a moment. if u were on the west coast at that time it touched u in some way probably. i never ended up at low end theory before it closed, but at that point i was already at bossa on the other side of the country and figuring some other things out. eventually i was out of the closet and didn't care abt male music and that whole 404 scene dried up thx to youtube and reverb scalpers and donald trump and the algorithm and entrepreneurship and some bad actors and also thousands of soundcloud teens' impending adulthood. i was amazed to read a whole section specifically about the parasitic evolution of spotify & co in the mid2010s directly contributing to the death of la-beats-as-we-knew-it in liz pelly's "mood machine" published jan 2025. anyway u don't really choose the beat tapes that change ur life. still love this one.. 10yrs later it plays out like a memorial for all my friends who never made it out of the 2010s. and it has some of the nicest ableton 8/9 complex warp artifacting you'll ever hear. "behindme" is an eternal classic...i remember a lifetime ago making a mashup of "behindme" and perfume's "my color." bedroom music