Dusty Memories by ChasBeats

After the release of his single “West Coast Lights” last autumn, ChasBeats has returned to grace us with his full length album “Dusty Memories”, a project which, packed full of chilled out soulful beats and gorgeous imagery, concentrates just as much on visuals as it does on audio.

A keen photographer as well as music producer, ChasBeats accompanies each song in “Dusty Memories” with a photograph. Much like his images, the tracks in Dusty Memories are dark, mellow and emotive. ChasBeats’ overall sound is clearly informed by his various influences which he cites as “the golden era of hip-hop, jazz, soul, funk and old movie soundtracks”. Indeed, gorgeous horns, boom-bap beats and heavily filtered vocals play key roles throughout the album, resulting in it’s overall soulful vibe. There is a gloomy yet romantic quality to “Dusty Memories” which fits in very well with the imagery ChasBeats’ provides us with, giving the album an air of the cinematic, with those same images acting as stills from a movie.

To compliment ChasBeats’ marrying of audio and visuals, we have a particularly special cassette tape this time around; a five panel J-Card featuring ChasBeats’ beautiful accompanying images as well as a full body UV printed cassette. Suffice to say that for the full ChasBeats’ experience, we highly recommend having the physical version of this release!

ChasBeats having as his base, the multicultural city of Thessaloniki is creating beats since 2001.
His influences vary from sounds of the golden era of hip-hop, to jazz, soul, funk and soundtracks from old movies.

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