One of the reasons why Puerto Rico’s independent music scene has continued to flourish is because of the internet. Thanks to platforms like YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Spotify, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr, artists of all mediums have been able to get their work out there. One of the musicians to take advantage of some of these is producer Marlon Frank who manages to stay in touch with Ponce and the rest of the scene while constantly traveling from the island to the diaspora and vice versa. Thus, in order to keep contact with the scene, the beat maker recently released his latest EP, Fases, a collection of six beats that will have listeners relaxing and moving their heads. For the most part, Fases is a soulful instrumental hip hop project that is perfect for studying, relaxing, meditating, writing and even stretching exercises as it isn’t really a beat tape that will distract the listener from whatever it is that he or she is doing. However, when one listens to “2999” one cannot help but get up and move a bit demonstrating that the musician can take the listener out to dance, at least for a short period. While on the surface one might look at Fases and say that it is just another beat tape, one has to look at the artist’s experimentation and growth. Throughout the EP, Marlon Frank explores classic soulful boom bap hip hop, more trap influenced sounds and even a little bit of electronica and 8-bit music, as found in the aforementioned “2999,” and what makes Fases so special is how seamlessly he makes these beats so cohesive despite the sounds being from different musical palettes. Overall, Marlon Frank’s Fases is a fun, loose and danceable beat tape that will easily capture listeners’ ears as the producer experiments with a few genres in the fields of hip hop and electronic music.
Listen to Fases on Soundcloud and Spotify All of the pictures in this article were found in Marlon Frank’s Facebook Page
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AuthorFernando E. E. Correa González is the author behind over 30 self-published poetry books. He has been published by literary magazines & journals [Id]entidad, El Vicio del Tintero, Sábanas Magazine, Smaeralit, The Occulum, Tonguas and Hound Magazine. Other than writing, Correa is also the host of FENCast, a podcast dedicated to documenting the Puerto Rican independent art scene. Aside from this, he experiments with filmmaking, photography, drawing, painting, multimedia and transmedia. He currently lives in his native Puerto Rico. Archives
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