‘easy waaaaay’ arrives from OPCD, the Changdong collective in Dobong-gu known as the home of beatboxer WING. The crew runs its own workshop projects rather than waiting for a label to schedule them, and the single carries that self-directed quality.

It moves at 161 BPM, quick enough that the phrasing has to stay tight, and the stretched vowels in the title set the tone the delivery follows. The refusal in the phrase is the hook, and the track spends its length turning that refusal over rather than resolving it.

A crew that books its own studio time, arguing with the easy option at 161 BPM.

The wider catalogue shows a group working in two directions at once. Five OPCD tracks sit in hip hop and rap, among them ‘Beemer’, ‘INHALE’, ‘GALAXIES’ and ‘CAN’T STOP’, while three more, ‘막춤’, ‘저녁놀 (Folk Ver.)’ and ‘poor’, are filed as singer-songwriter. The same name covers both.

That split is what makes OPCD worth following rather than sampling once. A collective that runs projects such as ‘LAB 7: Story’ and the five-week ‘Apollo Project’ treats each release as a test rather than a statement, and ‘easy waaaaay’ is one of the sharper results.

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