It might surprise you that a creator of punishingly hallucinatory rap music like Mike Melinoe would name a song “Begonia" after the multicolored flower. The song finds the halfway point between beauty and ugliness, calm and “tension-building”-- a flower halfway dead. The song begins with bells that start hopeful and end in a dirge, courtesy of Bukneu. As Melinoe enters, the drums join him, industrial and stuttering like his own twisted flow. On the chorus he repeats “Suicide, taking time/ do or die, saving lives/ you and I were made to cry/ choose a side restrain the fight/ let’s unify to save a life”--a chant that cycles between the heights and depths of emotion with disorienting rapidity. Mike's verse is spit with a more consistent cadence as the bass drum repeats in a four-on-the-floor pattern--a feeling of coalescing that brings the track together before the chorus rips it all apart again. With this new release, Melinoe highlights how transitory good and bad is, and how everyday is a potent mix of both.
About Mike Melinoe
Mindfully mysterious, conscious riddler Mike Melinoe is a demigod. Combining psychedelic sounds and a lo-fi internet-bred aesthetic with old-school lyricism, The Organic Geniuses founder deliberately swerves his way through drugged-out ballads with crisp clarity. Melinoe’s music exists in a plane that marries classic boom-bap to the intricate chaos that can only be summoned by a computer. Melinoe snarls with an elevated consciousness about his life, but eschews narrative for a collage of images. With impressive vocal elasticity, the artist treats beats as blank canvases rather than a series of lines waiting to be colored within.
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