The Dominican producer mediopicky often comes up with songs so wildly experimental, they can feel like they’re being piped in from the future. That’s the case on his latest album el precio de la yuca, an album structured like a radio show taking place 80 years from now, capturing sounds ahead of their time. The format lets mediopicky — whose real name is Pablo Alcántara — roll out all his thoughts and anxieties about the present day, but more importantly, it’s a showcase of the audacious, almost unhinged ideas that have made him one of the most exciting upcoming producers in Latin music.
What exactly do those ideas sound like? They’re all over “Negro Frutal,” a hypersonic merengue track with a galloping rhythm that eventually slams into distorted, metal-influenced production. There’s the insanely catchy simplicity of “ya ya yo no no,” a skittering,…
