Description
Title: No. 1 In The World
Artist: Rxm Reality
Label: Hausu Mountain
Product Type: CASSETTES
UPC: 634457190986
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 2024-10-04
Number of Discs: 1
Chicago-based producer/composer Mike Meegan makes music under the moniker Rxm Reality. Over the course of four albums on Hausu Mountain since 2018, Meegan refined a strain of electronic production that unites facets of breakcore, techno, grime, noise, and countless other styles into detailed composites that attest to his omnivorous tastes and bottomless technical acumen as a producer. While his live performances over the past few years and 2022”s Sick For You found him experimenting with his own lead vocals for the first time, pushing the dial somewhere closer to mutated-pop-music injected with distorted roars in the digital hardcore tradition, his new album No. 1 in the World (his fifth on HausMo) dives into the song-oriented branch of his work more than ever before. The album”s hour-long program spans twenty-four shorter tracks that highlight Meegan as the frontman and singer/songwriter of his own morphing one-person ensemble, without sacrificing any of the complex and unpredictable production decisions that animate his music. Acknowledging the influence of rock, punk, and pop music on his work, and embracing his desire to shine as a more legible human presence within his cybernetic-spreads of electronics, Rxm Reality treats us to a vision of his music equally focused on concise songcraft and ballistic rave energy, all the while pushing his sound into a state of mind-bending total Rxm Reality cherrypicks and recombines signifiers from a deep history of experimental electronic vocabularies, one might worry that Meegan”s production runs the risk of collapsing under it”s own weight, yet it speaks to his experience as a producer that every juxtaposed element hits the mix with a stunning degree of clarity and separation. No. 1 isegues through far-flung genres and styles without ever losing a sense of cohesion, rooted in Meegan”s palpable presence at the center of each track.
Tracks:
1.1 No. 1 in the World
1.2 See All
1.3 Blackout
1.4 Little Tattoo On Your Arm
1.5 Yea!
1.6 This Is Fine
1.7 Listening to Burial
1.8 So Little Relief (featuring Fire-Toolz)
1.9 Things Get Dumb
1.10 I Never Miss Them
1.11 VPN Club
1.12 Only Deadcore
1.13 It’s Starting to Smell
1.14 American Pie (featuring Deli Girls)
1.15 Our Voices Go Unheard
1.16 Coward
1.17 Sway So Yel
1.18 I Want to Send You Every Cute Thing That I See
1.19 Dark Teen Movie
1.20 Sammy
1.21 DJ LFG
1.22 Mario
1.23 DJ Jesus Flip
1.24 Whipped Cream Sandwich
