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Shinso: The Message in Depth

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: DJ Krush

Release Date October 14, 2002
I purchased this album,expecting some of the blissfull trip-hop chillin beats that Dj krush has so perfected (Dig this vibe, Song 1)And I liked the idea of "an in depth message" to accompany his mind blowingly soulful tunes.
However, this album is very untypical of Dj krush. Dity beats, off-key bassslines, robotic melodies and cryptic, aggressive lyrics make this album more of a techno head-fuck than the soundtrack to a chillout session, that I was expecting.
It would however appeal to some people - think 'Intergalactic' by the Beatie Boys except much more rushed at the production stage. The highlight is the rap in Japanese-(track 2)a very interesting language, which sounds surprisingly good in the form of a rap.
It seems as ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 62
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Req One

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Req

Release Date September 01, 1997
My god, this is what the world needs. A sort of haphazard antidote to all that saccharin – a natural, earthy, gentle compendium of odd noises and broken beats. Turn away from those horrid oily commercial chillout albums and get anything by REQ. The emphasis here is on simplicity, calm, the sort of thing that helps you think. Twisted drum and bass laid over with raising-hair-on-back-of-neck weird sounds – this is refreshing.

CD-Charts Position 63
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Black Elvis/Lost in Space

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Kool Keith

Release Date September 13, 1999
After Dr Octagon this is the next instant appeal album Keith's knocked out. It's a little cheesy in parts(probably the best bits)but that's what we want from the lyrical wizard. I quote "Capital investments my sequence automatic mechanical problems are cured, space investor wall street journal analysis " ? The production on this album is probably the tightest Keith's spat lyrics to. A must for all tech comedy hip-hop fans. Warren.

CD-Charts Position 64
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Meiso

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: DJ Krush

Release Date August 03, 1995
Not his best - get Ki-oku much deeper and darker.

CD-Charts Position 65
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Tomorrow Comes Today [DVD]

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Gorillaz

Release Date February 25, 2002
Tomorrow Comes Today is a wonderful, melancholic hip-hop single.

Melodious and yet extremely funky, the song was almost ignored on its original release due to the band's low profile.

But now you can enjoy the tune in all its DVD re-released glory. The DVD format seems perfectly suited to this animated band and the video for Tomorrow... is a visual treat, mixing live action, animatics and animation to great effect.

Damon and chums's best yet.

CD-Charts Position 66
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Out From Out Where

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Amon Tobin

Release Date October 15, 2002
Tomorrow Comes Today is a wonderful, melancholic hip-hop single.

Melodious and yet extremely funky, the song was almost ignored on its original release due to the band's low profile.

But now you can enjoy the tune in all its DVD re-released glory. The DVD format seems perfectly suited to this animated band and the video for Tomorrow... is a visual treat, mixing live action, animatics and animation to great effect.

Damon and chums's best yet.

CD-Charts Position 67
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The Blend

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: The Herbaliser

Release Date June 10, 1997
This is a real different style of muzik, it's got funky rapping over the top, and phat bass lines, really you should get it!

CD-Charts Position 68
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Deltron 3030

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Deltron 3030

Release Date October 23, 2000
The theme of the album is cliché as hell; a futuristic, empty dystopian world where only a few people (this time rappers and producers) are left alive, but in the context of a hip hop album it seems to work pretty well. And thanks to Del being a better rapper than Kool Keith, Deltron 3030 presents itself as a much more accomplished piece of work than the other main Automator album, Dr. Octagonecologyst. Yet, like that album, it's The Automator that puts me off Deltron too. His production has all the sci-fi sound effects and weird quirks you'd want from something like this, but his sub-RZA beats don't have the variety to warrant the 60-minute length of the album. It also contains nerd-rap pioneer Paul Barman, which perhaps is worth docking a ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 69
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Dr. Octagon

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Dr. Octagon

Release Date May 02, 1996
I say dirty, but i mean dirty in a clean clinical sort of way, the beats are dirty the rhyming is slighly pervy at times, but is as clean as freshly bleached operating table and i like it. In terms of its musical content and artistic aplumb I find this album remaniscent of the early work of brazilain bongo player and nose flutist Marichio Buhumba. It has the same raw edge as can be heard in much of the great mans music, and it's a very thin edge one step either way and one would topple into the flaming pit of breakbeat on eitherside.

Some marvelous and varied vocalists can be found throughout this album, all under the watchful and ever open third eye of main men Kool Keith and the Automator, who's beats can be as calming as ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 70
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Float

CD-Charts > Music > Experimental
by: Aesop Rock

Release Date March 31, 2008
Possibly because of it being his first album, and earlier in the stage of Aes Rock and Blockhead (Aesop Rock's main producer), this album is a lot more disjointed than the apocalyptically fantastic "Labor Days". The MC'ing is,for the most part, a lot more listless and monotone than more recent realeases. The beats are slightly choppy and can become grating. That said, without listening too closely, I really enjoy this album. The collaborations with Slug and Doseone are dope, and Aes' lyricism is as abstractly mind bending as ever. If you've never heard Aes Rock before, you'd be best advised to buy Labhor Days or the Daylight EP first, but if you've heard some of his more recent stuff, there are much worse CDs to waste money on.