The Liminal Station 001
Nosai Thing
This week The Liminal Staton is going to focus on two songs by Nosai Thing.
From his Wikipedia page
Jason Chung (born January 27, 1985[2]), better known as Nosaj Thing, is an American record producer based in Los Angeles, California.[3] He is of Korean descent.[4] He has produced tracks for Busdriver,[5] Nocando,[6] Flash Bang Grenada,[7] Kendrick Lamar,[8] and Chance the Rapper
What I like about Nosai Thing:
The music he makes consistently surprises me in the best way. I can't tell what is going to come next, and what does come next tends to be very... I don't knwo how to describe it... I'm just going to say it is double-plus-interesting.
The liminal aspect of Nosai Thing:
There was time when I was a much younger person working jobs that I knew would never turn into a career, the day would come to an end and I would transition to meeting up with friends and going places where we would play D&D, watch Si-Fi, and eat cheap food that was probably killing us.
Listening to Nosai Thing makes me think of the liminal space between the work day and the hanging out evening/night.
To be clear: This time in my life was not always that much fun. Usually it was, but sometimes it was a time when I felt like I was on an endless hamster wheel of working stupid jobs to get money I’d need to pay for school at a community college.
I often felt like I wasting my days and nights away, but I did not really know what else to do with myself.
Sometimes, but not often, I'd enter the liminal space between the day's hustle and the night’s endless conversation about things that did not matter (even though we talked about them like they did), and I would decide to just be a hermit and read something that seemed profound.
I don’t think I get to access the liminal space that Nosai Thing makes me remember. That is one of the things that makes the music so cool, it turns the light of my memory onto a part of my life I would not remember otherwise.
Two tracks:
Where to listen to more:
Spotify, Apple Music, Soundcloud, YouTube.
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