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MH-222 Octavius - Audio Noir  Octavius has strived to perfect his stunning amalgam of hip-hop, electronic and avant-rock music in the San Francisco underground over the past four years. This dedication has culminated in his Mush full-length release Audio Noir. Serving as a slight departure from the beats and noise frenzy that ignited a buzz around his 2001 work with 4AM, the new release looks to establish Octavius as a purveyor of even more elaborate territories of sound. Experimental freak-outs collide with classic song structures, tension and attitude give way to raw vulnerability, and Octavius' vocal and production techniques are employed to unnerving effect. Audio Noir adds previously missing darkness and edge to the Mush catalog in a way that overwhelms, thrills, and astonishes in equal measure. |
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| An important record - LA Weekly / Unforgettable - Industrial Nation / Delicious left-field despondency - Outburn / Great invention and blasted beauty - The Wire / Tense, aggressive and surprisingly beautiful - Signal To Noise / A new flavor of hip-hop that's dangerous and mesmerizing - SF Examiner |
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| When local boy Octavius looks at hip-hop, he sees a bright future for it far beyond the formula beats and generic rhymes that have come to define the genre. Turning a blind eye to convention, this denizen of San Francisco's underground hip-hop community has taken urban music by the throat and lead it into uncharted experimental territory, where he combines it with harsh avant-rock guitar riffs and laptop tweeks to create a new flavor of hop that's dangerous and mesmerizing. - San Francisco Examiner |
2XLP/Out Of Print