Raw Fruit Vl. 7 & 8LP

Ras G, born Gregory Shorter Jr., ran the boards at the center of LA's Leimert Park beat scene, building tracks on a Roland SP-404 sampler and co-founding Poo-Bah Records along the way. His Raw Fruit series kept pushing out loose, cosmic, dusty instrumental tapes on his own Ghetto Sci-Fi Music imprint, this entry included, stacking basslines and samples until the whole thing felt like it was breathing on its own. That same raw, sample-heavy sound carried him through releases for Brainfeeder and Leaving Records before his death in 2019, and it hasn't lost any weight since.