DOWNLOAD: Comma - Ken Griffey Jr.
San Francisco beat builder Ryan Gilbert, known here as Comma, has, like many artists emerging from the Bay Area scene, a fixation on the tactile and the spectral. On "Ken Griffey Jr." he doesn't have the leaping abilities and power hitting of the titular centerfielder. What he has is an ability to make his effects and samples sound very present, like the way a rippling bass smear rubs against your face, or in the thick percolation of an extraterrestrial keyboard loop. The casually chopped vocal loop running throughout serves more like the rhythmic anchor, while splashy drums and an eerie tone casually stroll behind it. More bass to your face arrives when Comma drops his Colortronics EP on May 24th on Frite Nite.
