Chester Watson + Elaquent - München, Milla

Name: Chester Watson + Elaquent - München, Milla
Start: 2025-02-24T20:00:00+01:00
Location: Milla Club

Schedule

Mon, 24 Feb, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Milla Club | Munich, BY

Chester Watson + Elaquent
24.02.2025
München, Milla
Einlass: 19.00 Uhr
Beginn: 20.00 Uhr
VVK:
http://www.eventim.de/event/chester-watson-elaquent-milla-19614420/
Chester Watson
The internet has a funny way of distorting our sense of time. When Chester Watson debuted in the mid-2010s with verbose, technically precise music indebted to MF DOOM, Earl Sweatshirt, and more obscure artists from the stratosphere and the blogosphere, it was as if he was simultaneously from the past and future. Enterprising fans reacted accordingly. Before he was old enough to legally drink, there were “Best Of,” rarities compilations, and .zip files floating through the ether like secret handshakes. Whenever industry prospectors earmarked him as the next big thing, he disappeared back underground, only to reemerge sharper, leaner, weirder. Though only 27, the St. Louis-born rapper and producer, who grew up between that city, Georgia, and Florida, has seen enough for several lifetimes—and raps as if he’s tapped into many more. But after a few years of highs, lows, and traumatic odysseys, he was able to stare straight into the abyss and conquer it. The regained confidence was exhibited on fish don’t climb trees, the largely self-produced 2023 album that reaffirmed him as one of rap’s great auteurs. An album that Spin described as "sounding fresh the whole way through, which may be its greatest accomplishment. "The willingness to both expand his repertoire laterally and dive deeper down each rabbit hole has made Watson’s one of the most quietly rewarding catalogs in hiphop. In the last half-decade, he’s released Project 0, the apex predator version of the style that he’d been tinkering with since his breakthrough a decade ago on with the heady 10-million-plus streaming “Phantom.” There was A Japanese Horror Film, the full-length album from 2020 that sounds like a small team of assassins being trained in the art of hypnosis, and the following year’s glitchy, percussive EP 1997. Any informed observer would have him on a short list of the genre’s best voices. And they have: Complex hailed him as "one of the best newmusicians." Pitchfork said he so comfortably and skillfully amongst his influences that he already feels like their peer." Pigeons and Planes named him one of "Best 20 artists Under 20.” Last year, he delivered a bravura performance on the COLORS performance series, unveiling "summer blues" and "chasing clouds," two tracks which Fader hailed as effortless, fresh, and distinctively trippy. It all served as the prelude to another dynamic 2024, in which Watson released a pair of EPs: the first, "Winter Mirage" was a kaleidoscopic journey with the Japanese producer Ill Sugi; the second was Montisona, another transformative odyssey with his tourmate, Elaquent. But this is merely the start: 2025 figures to be full of more otherworldly spells, psychic travels, and time warps courtesy of Watson. Just wait.
Elaquent
Elaquent has spent this decade forging a style all his own, internalizing the sounds of great producers like J Dilla and DJ Premier, but glitching and altering them to the point where his voice became inimitable. With a sprawling catalog that includes dozens of projects and countless remixes, Elaquent has become one of beat music’s most compelling figures––despite living thousands of miles from its Los Angeles epicenter. As Noisey once pointed out, he's been pivotal in emphasizing the varied influences of beat music, pushing the genre into new, previously unthinkable spaces and helping to establish a vibrant beat music scene in Toronto.