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MH-247 Thavius Beck - Thru  Thavius Beck returns with his signature blend of mind bending experimental hip-hop and dark synth-driven industrial electronics on his new release Thru. Featuring thirteen tracks of densely layered samples, pulsating synths, and dizzying delay plastered over frantic drum tracks, the album builds on the sound established in his breakout release, Decomposition. In addition to providing vocals on two tracks himself, Thavius collaborates with touring partner and hip-hop's poet laureate, Saul Williams, folk-songstress Mia Doi Todd, Los Angeles staple 2Mex, and up-and-coming MC Nocando on individual tracks. Thru will cement Thavius Beck's position among electronic music production's boldest voices. |
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| A visionary sampling of sounds - Re:Up / A strong, distinctive offering. - Music Australia Guide / You'd struggle to find a better alternative hip-hop record in this, or any other, year - Rock Sound / Undeniably impressive - The Wire / A damn nice and original album - UK Hip-Hop |
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| While countless clueless rappers will drone braggadocio about "taking it to the next level" until such words become meaningless, Thavius Beck's forward-thinking hip-hop experiments sound as though they're being beamed direct from a time machine. That mission to deep space noise wisely hands controls to fantastical beat poet-slash-MC Saul Williams for 'Lyrical Gunplay', a sharp intellect-laden indictment with extra Southern rap parody. More tellingly, Beck isn't afraid to slip arresting musical hooks in, like The Neptunes stripped of any financially motivated career aspirations. Among the futuristic sheen, a human heart remains beating, illustrated by ''98', a harrowingly personal account of a father's cancerous death as told by LA spitter NoCanDo. You'd struggle to find a better alternative hip-hop record in this, or any other, year. - Rock Sound |
