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15 hours agoBby Kell: "SPLURGINBAGS"
Bby Kell's Straight Pop delivers bold, chaotic Auto-Tuned melodies, tempo-shifting flows, and raw, Ken Carson-style grunting—highlighted by "SPLURGINBAGS".
Tim Zha is looking for the soul in the machine. While some might hear Auto-Tune as masking a singer's humanity, the London-based artist filters his vocals to highlight technology's inseparability with our notions of self. This is ground well-trodden by Afrofuturist techno pioneers, Atlanta trappers, and PC Music hyperpoppers; for Zha, Auto-Tune represents what he calls the "coincidence of human subjectivity and the networked machine system."