LK99 SPECIAL
SUNDAY
@slowdrip.la
There’s a way into
@levenkali music that doesn’t start with sound at all, but with a pot on the stove. Growing up in Los Angeles, his love for Caribbean food folds naturally into a broader, lived-in mix of influences, the same way our Filipino sensibility moves through the kitchen. We found a connection in Caribbean red pepper goat and Filipino kaldereta, dishes that move low and slow, building in layers until the line between spice, fat, and time disappears. It’s the same architecture you hear in his records.
Red pepper lamb leads with heat, the brightness of chile, the sweetness underneath, while kaldereta folds inward, tomato and liver bringing a deeper, almost bassline richness. That push and pull, high and low, sharp and warm, immediate and sustained, mirrors his sound. Sunlit falsettos float over grooves that sit heavy and patient; synths bloom like spices in oil, basslines stretch like braises finding their depth. It’s a diasporic composition shaped by place and appetite, where LA’s diversity blend the way genres do in his music, layered, fluid, and given just enough time to become itself.
