Iron & Cream
Whenever I’m playing somewhere on a beats vibe, and feel like the joint is yearning for a delicious beat bomb to drop, I know I can put my trust in Pixelord. The post hip-hop beats this dude, probably the biggest Russian beat head ever, has been producing, are always bigger than life, bass heavy, flashing and bubbling with 8bit goodness, and always memorable. For me he’s been, from the get go, one of the biggest icons of the beat scene.
But times they are a changing, and Pixelord aka Alexey Devyanin is no man to stand still. The few tracks I got to hear from him lately seemed to point at a drift in his sound, and his new EP seals the deal. Iron & Cream sees Pixelord experimetning with new realms, or perhaps just pushing the limits of his own sound to encompass far greater territories. He seems drawn to that post-dubstep sound, to those lush synths, to the twisted vocals, to the dreamier side of the electronics. All that while, Pixelord retains his signature sound, his basic groove, and of course his top notch production skillz.
As much as I would have loved hearing some new straight up beats from him, I love hearing him evolve, and most importantly, love these new 4 tracks that couldn’t have found a more befitting title than Iron & Cream. Keep it up comrade!
