Conrad Clifton’s Heavy, Ethereal, Mexican-Drug-Lord-y “Prince of Crown Heights”

Conrad Clifton’s Prince of Crown Heights could be on the soundtrack of a version of El Mariachi set in the world of Snow Crash. A dark mood provoked by the tensions between analog and digital life.

Starkly meditative… alarming… like listening to Brazilian assassin stalking his mark in zero gravity or something… Has a track this heavy ever felt so light?

Pure dreamland. A semi-hypnotic coke trip.. a psuedo-violent zen state… Imagine Scarface’s Tony Montana curating the soundtrack for his own personal Far Cry world on quaaludes… we’re talking coked-out blood dragons in bikinis and mariachis motherfucker.. but then also mellow… a magic carpet ride through a Putumayo compilation… Music From the Coffee Lands?

Get some red wine or tequila in you and this track evokes a bit of everything.. a lil’ Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, a lil’ Sepultera, a lil’ Buraka Som Sistema (I’m feeling Kalembe on this one) some Too Future modernity.. Heady atmospheric shit…

Good track to pump you up in the car on the way to take out the Sinaloa cartel… you know shit’s about to go down!