In this very recent track from Travis Miller (aka Lil Ugly Mane), Miller goes completely left-field to create a plunderphonics pop song based around ragtime samples. His unique mixing emphasizes and recontextualizes the feelings of 1920s-40s pop music. The whimsy turns to melancholy with Travis’ despondent vocals, mixed to sound similarly like a dusty, obscure phonograph record.
He inverts this further, not choosing to simply recreate a ragtime song but situate anachronistic sounds and elements within the context of a 20s-40s song. It takes the form of sounding like a psychedelic black and white art film — time stretching and pitch shifting of these old-timey samples with turntable scratches and warps. Miller assumes the role of both an extremely depressed lounge singer and the first and only phonograph DJ.