If you ask me, Arriba Rosario!'s "Improvs de Synth-Punk" isn't exactly punk. Sure, "Neo-Hippies" and "(11/20/23-01/07/24)" come close with some up-tempo pacing on the former and distorted guitar on the latter, which can make me think of Kraftwerk or the like. But when the solos and riffs go in, I hear Mamman Sani, the Sudanese synth explorations of Jantra, or even the 80's oddity "Sons of Ethiopia" by Admas - all things that the Argentinian 19-year-old had never heard of. An artist approaching a prolific output through several aliases for his age, A.R! first reached out with a demo that sounded nothing like this - an hour and a half of vaporwave-d rap songs. After perusing his Bandcamp I stumbled across this release and almost immediately asked if we could put this on cassette. Bridging the gap between minimal and intense, sit back and muse on the synthesizer stylings of Arriba Rosario! - 𝘔𝘈𝘓𝘒, 𝘚𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘵 𝘊𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘬
