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Hip-Hop · 2018 · 13 tracks · 36m

Departures

Nohidea

Submerged, dusty beats and muffled piano loops that feel like a half-remembered dream. Instrumental hip-hop for late-night reflection and quiet, rainy-day solitude.

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The perfect soundtrack for when you're the only person awake and the world feels small and quiet.

A heavy, submerged melancholy that feels like watching the world through a rain-streaked window.

Departures · vs · Nohidea
Self Examination+0.7σ

The writing leans a touch further into self examination than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 13 Tracks · 36m
01
departures
5:18
02
perfect blue
4:09
03
what do we have?
1:31
04
entheogen
1:49
05
breathing
4:13
06
obsidian
3:04
07
into the deep
3:02
08
reflection of loss
2:31
09
promissory note
2:05
10
lunar
3:23
11
kept beneath
1:59
12
purity
2:14
13
drift..
1:29
Moments Worth Waiting For
The way the opening title track stretches over five minutes, allowing the muffled percussion to slowly anchor a drifting, ethereal synth pad.
The brittle, almost broken piano loop in 'perfect blue' that feels like it might snap under the weight of the heavy, side-chained kick drum.
The sudden transition into 'drift..' where the beat dissolves entirely into a wash of textured noise and fading melodic fragments.
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