Andrew Thomson aka AyGeeTee has been part of the broad online music scene for as long as I can remember. With releases on AMDISCS, Reckno, Seagrave and Sweat Lodge Guru among many others, he's been orbiting on the edges of various leftfield electronic scenes, putting out ambient, house, hip-hop, drone, bass and everything in between. A few days ago he announced on his FB page that he's planning to release a bunch of his backlog albums he's been sitting on for years. "Rehabilitation" is the first one to see the light of the day. Made in 2016/17, it was originally scheduled to be released on tape by Reckno but that never happened. As AyGeeTee describes, it's an album written "to get over a tough time, which, unfortunately got a lot worse in the following year before it got better". Twelve tracks of hip-hop ambient tropical folk as he himself tagged it on Bandcamp, the album is an eclectic journey through genres and approaches, jumping between "mainstream underground" takes and more experimental sound design. The final, 12-min long track is a personal favourite. Looking forward to what's next.
Download the album for free here (but hey, donations count, especially with Bandamp day right around the corner). Stream below.