Steve 'Flash' JuonThere was some potential here.
I say WAS because it’s too late for StoopidXool to go back and correct the mistakes he made on “Horizon.” The opening track “Neon” has some chill vibes and a nice long drawn out bass bottom, but there are points where he didn’t loop the samples properly. You don’t have to be an audio scientist to hear the pops, the repeats, and the stutters on the beat. With no rapper to get in the way the errors are as plain as day. I was willing to assume it was a one off until I heard “Dawn.” The bass is almost identical to his previous track and the flubs are there too. It makes me suspect he tried to fit his samples to a drum track he had done first, and instead of changing the tempo or the length of said samples, he just crammed things together and hoped it would come out alright.
If you’re going to give yourself a producer drop like “Xool on the beat boy” (pronounced Kool) you’ve got to do better than that. No one will hire you to produce their shit if your demo tape, which we can charitably call this, is full of things that you could have fixed. His lack of deviation from the same BPM and the same bass hit also drags things down over time. It means songs like “Moon” and “Dreamy” end up bleeding into each other, with the only thing that interrupts your trance being another unintentional mistake. In fact unless this clip gets taken down, start 0:18 into “Moon” and tell me if you don’t hear the same thing I do. This is unacceptable. If this is a mastering problem then he needs to upgrade his equipment and do it over again. You can’t release your shit this way.
I can see that StoopidXool has some interesting ideas on “Horizon” but the failure to execute them properly is a huge minus. The fact he put this out for streaming services and digital sales means he felt it was good enough in this state and that’s unforgivable. Try harder, Stoopid.