Posted on 08/15/2008
UK producer Kevin Martin, as The Bug, tries something interesting on London Zoo, taking the charged syncopated boasts of Dancehall reggae, and mixing them with vitriolic grime, giving a suitable back drop for the chanters and singers of tales of urban London life. Although some good ideas and blends can be found here, the collection falls apart ultimately.
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Posted on 08/12/2008
About thirty miles from Detroit, is Ann Arbor, a green-grassed college town from which emcee Buff1 hails. But Buff1 isn’t overshadowed by his neighboring contemporaries, nor is he trying to be them. Instead he paves his own musical road with his album, There’s Only One, and proves that when it comes to Buff1, well…there’s only one.
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Posted on 08/12/2008
There’s a lot to be said for weirdness, particularly in today’s increasingly homogenized world. Unnerving as that kid with the propeller hat, picking boogers in the back of the classroom may have been, he’s probably not wasting away in a cubicle right now. Not saying that Queens MC, Junclassic (pronounced June Classic) was that kid, but after listening to his beautifully bizarre sophomore LP, Overqualified, it’s hardly a stretch to...
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Posted on 08/12/2008
Crack open the CD case for G-Unit’s latest release and you’ll find a pair of black hands cupped together as though holding Holy Communion. But, instead of offering the path to salvation, they offer dozens of bullets with the ominous caption, “it is better to give than to receive.” G-Unit’s Terminate on Sight (T.O.S.) is the nightmare of your childhood bully come to torment your adult existence bearing...
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Posted on 08/12/2008
Like many rappers before him, Phashara has set out on The Storybook Adventure to bring authenticity back to a genre so many say is dying. And, more importantly, he has decided to focus his game on weaving stories with his lyrics, as his album name obviously implies, and sharing tales from his hometown of Chicago. The only problem is that his delivery tends to fall flat, which mars an otherwise...
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Posted on 08/12/2008
Indian and electronic dub elements intertwine on Sub Swara's debut album in a way that transcends the limitations imposed by comparisons to dubstep. Whereas dubstep music invokes a similar level of subwoofer awareness and is also prone to making use of Eastern instrumentation, dubstep artists sometimes seem to have a rather narrow palette in terms of rhythm, texture, and dynamic, perhaps the result of the music having been so readily...
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