When Brunetto disappears, he actually disappears. No loosies, no side projects, just silence. So when OOPARTS slipped out November 14 on Beautiful Accident, the six-track EP carried the weight of half a decade spent off-grid. The Spanish producer who helped map Spain’s instrumental hip-hop and trip-hop coordinates twenty years ago hasn’t lost a step; if anything, the break let him refine a sound that already felt ten moves ahead.
Across the runtime you’ll catch sluggish trip-hop pulses, abstract hip-hop bones, and dub-wise bass that creeps instead of hits. The Ëda Díaz feature drifts in like after-hours smoke, the Young Quincy rework turns an old Sheroine favorite inside out. The tracks with no features lean hardest into Brunetto’s collage instincts; snippets of forgotten vocal takes, field-recorded hiss, and detuned melodic fragments all get melted into loops that hypnotize instead of resolve.
At under thirty minutes OOPARTS never drags, never panders, never explains itself. It’s the sound of someone who spent five years alone with the machines and came back with a finished language. For anyone still chasing that perfect gray-zone blend of head-nod and headspace, this is the one you’ve been waiting for without knowing it.
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