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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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| Circle makes Kool Keith sound like Phil Collins. Is this insane hip-hop a success? Hell, yes. Here's unhinged stream-of-conscious poetry courtesy of Doseone periodically breaking down in random metaphysical jewels on the lines of "The only war that matters is the war against the imagination" set against beats culled from the last twenty years of hip-hop and from every decade of recorded sound, smashed together by avant-garde production hero Boom Bip: music-boxes and songbirds by the way of the Last Poets and electro. It can be a genuinely shocking listen and it'll make no sense the first time you hear it. By the third spin, you'll be head nodding, anticipating every change of tempo in the rhyming and every surreal ejaculation. Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review. - Straight No Chaser |
2XLP/Out Of Print