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MH-201 Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle  A Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round, Circle is the critically acclaimed full-length from vocalist Doseone and producer Boom Bip. The New York Times has named Circle one of the "Top-Ten Worthwhile Albums of the Year" and the duo have been rewarded with over a dozen artist profiles including a feature in The Wire and nods to Doseone as Spin's "Incoming" and CMJ's "On the Verge" artist-of-the-month. A cohesive work of word and sound that ends where it begins and emulates the child within, Circle combines honest word and live instrumentation with an amalgam of sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties compositions. Doseone does it all, prose at light speed, in slow speak, and even bird calls. Circle is at once like everything and nothing before it - and what comes next will not be the same. |
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| A Masterpiece, Fladdout - Your Flesh / Hip-Hop To Confound And Inspire In Equal Measure - Seven / Edgy, Eldritch and Mind-Bogglingly Evanescent - DJ / Invigorating, Wildly Innovative and Inventive - Play Louder / Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review - Straight No Chaser / A Landmark Moment In Hip-Hop History - Exclaim! |
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| Producer Boom Bip and emcee Doseone are both masters of discursive, elliptical hip-hop. Here they present their first album project, the lengthy format of which has given them an opportunity to really flex their imaginations. And Circle is nothing if not imaginative. Edgy, eldritch and mind-bogglingly evanescent, this is hip-hop taken to an extreme, retaining the genre's core spirit but stretching it into bizarre and sometimes grotesque new shapes. One part hip-hop, one part audio theatre and one part crafted genius, Circle is not for the faint hearted but will keep the headstrong occupied for quite some time. - DJ |
2XLP/Out Of Print