May 19, 2016
New Jersey producer Michael Volpe, known to most as Clams Casino, has announced his debut album 32 Levels coming July 15.
It's been three years since Volpe's last release, the Instrumentals 3 mixtape, and since then he's been producing for some of hip-hop's biggest names including A$AP Rocky, Mac Miller and Lil B among others. Now though, he is ready to release his own music again.
32 Levels marks the first official LP as Clams Casino and along with the announcement Volpe shared the first single "Blast," a dreamlike collage of vocal samples set to a crunchy hip hop beat.
And while "Blast," is relatively short, clocking in at 2:17, it serves as a very intriguing introduction to 32 Levels. The accompanying music video shows a silhouette ascending past mountains and planets into a realm of tessellating crystals and hindu-like statues (the faces of which are also replaced by tessellating crystals).
It's trippy and weird and pretty dope. If there's a message here from Volpe it's that we ain't seen nothing yet. Check out the video for "Blast," below.
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