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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 / 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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| It's in hip-hop's ballpark, sure, but the first release from this mysterious West Coast dream team shows little concern for field boundaries. For Circle hits hard and avant-garde, a collage of beats, lyrics and samples that makes disorientation its true goal. DJ Boom Bip and lyricist Doseone yet they make DJ Shadow's last look as progressive as a penny-farthing. The incredible distortions of "Town Crier's Walk" or the psychic aggro of "Slight" see Boom Bip playing fast and mentally loose underneath Doseone's mind-spatter lyrics. Ignore the foundation-course pretension and let them take your inner ear outer there. - NME |
2XLP/Out Of Print