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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| Hip-hop seems to be taking over the left-field as much as the mainstream, Where '90s electronic experimentalists elaborated on techno and drum and bass, today's heads are all about taking the stoned syncopated and sample collage techniques of hip-hop to the nth degree. Fourtet is the UK's prime example, and the USA is full of beatnik beat-heads trying different takes on avant-hop such as Daedelus, Prefuse 73, and Boom Bip. Daedelus is probably the coolest of this trio. His combination of swooning, jazzy Hitchcockian soundtrack suspense and disorientating cyber spaceage processing creates classy, edgy atmospheres, a couple of noisy scares and several moments of staggering beauty. Vocals including the great rap subversive Mike Ladd and hugely underrated French rappers TTC embellish the weirdness. Freak-hop magic is thriving stateside. - Word |
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