Asterisk – No School (WEB) (2025) (320 kbps)

No School is neither old school or new school, it’s somewhere beyond. Dreamy, psychedelic & head nodding, No School hints backwards with funky samples & classic drum grooves but also pushes forward with glitch, ambient, drone, electro-acoustic sound collage and other excursions while staying very listenable and worthy of deeper return visits.

Asterisk is the beat maker / producer alias of Greg Davis. While Greg may be best known for his folktronica, ambient, drone & various shades of electronic music for labels like Carpark, Kranky, Important, Room40, Digitalis, NNA, greyfade and more, his initial passion for music was making beats & rhymes with turntables, a cheap sampler and a busted 4-track in his basement in the early 90s. He was obsessed with hip-hop during that golden era (1988-1995) and then ventured off to music school where his curiosity took him outwards through jazz, improvised music, electronics, experimental, avant-garde composition and beyond. But he always held a deeply rooted love for hip-hop. During the past 10 years or so, Greg has reconnected with the vital music from the current hip-hop underground and started making beats again as a side quest. Last year, he released his first beat tape as Asterisk titled We’re Gonna Fly Away on Bandcamp… more.

Tracklist:

01. No School (Intro)
02. We Are One Feat. Jesse The Tree And Monzy The Terrible
03. Double Dream Feat. Myka 9
04. Mello Feat. Sleep Sinatra
05. My Worries Don’t Look Like Yours Feat. Jay Cinema And Rail G
06. Stigma Feat. Defcee
07. Cliff Notes (dub) Feat. Andrew Mbaruk
08. The Under Feat. Alikho Igama
09. Spines Feat. Lungs And Hester Valentine
10. Backseat Buddha Feat. Video Dave
11. Two Stars Feat. Nosaj from New Kingdom And Open Mike Eagle
12. Ancestral Space Feat. Rap Man Gavin
13. Now & Later Feat. Frankie Jax No Mad And TreDoes
14. Stock Footage Feat. NAHreally And Cropscropscrops
15. Weststruck Feat. Craig G

Download:

320 kbps – Wayshare