Saturday, January 31, 2026

Album Review: DJ Ramon Sucesso - Sexta dos Crias 2.0


Democratic in origin, flexible but dictatorial in constitution, DJ Ramon Sucesso's second LP is a direct sequel to 2023's Sexta dos Crias, itself a deposition of his infectious virtual "bubble beat" demonstrations. The channeling of his style into the cast of an album is more of an extension of the experiment than a formal climax, though. In comparison and guided by this analysis, the resounding conclusion is that Sexta dos Crias 2.0 is demonstrably mad, cracked, loopy, unwound, and sublated- a contorted hip-hop engine that operates on oxidized hardware and a slime-warping logic board, blithely unfurled in a brambly drugget down a hall of bruised spoils and landing in the pit of an anarchic rubber-room only to shoot back up the silo of its descent to clear a near-perfect dismount before catching the wings of another precocious rhythmic laceration of logical succession. An impish and impractical-seeming chiding of sequential experience and sensory cohesion- a cartoonish illumination of divine dance-floor intervention- a fission of splintering sonic compounds whose scattering particulates pierce and recombine their neighboring resonances, driving them to implode, invert, and reunify upon impact into deranged but adaptive novel configurations. A nourishing primordial soup that replenishes as it is consumed- never expended, ever expanding, like the contents of a cup that runneth over with frothy inspiration. Everyone is working for the weekend, only some are working (and succeeding) at making the liberation we seek on a Friday night into the standard we enjoy every day of the week.

Como acima, assim embaixo (Lugar Alto).