But there was something in his music as well. He was a digital wraith, and the less one knew, the more one could speculate.
No one in music knew the beatmaker personally.
Vaguely opulent moniker aside, Clams Casino existed as little more than a Myspace account and email address. Part of this uncanny sense could be ascribed to anonymity. When the name Clams Casino began to circulate widely among music aficionados in the early 2010s, it seemed that the producer represented something more significant than the sum of the tracks he laid down for various underground rappers to plow over.