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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 |
| While mainstream hip-hop languishes in the wallets of thuggish dullards such as 50 Cent, an underground alternative is gathering momentum in LA. Not so much a rapper as a pyrotechnician of the spoken word, Regan Farguhar, aka Busdriver, is one of the most entertaining motor mouths working today. most of the time, the target of his breakneck satirical babble his himself and his bien-pensant audience - "hipsters dressed as Russian spies," as he calls them. The menu here favors 1970's orchestral samples over thumping beats, and the closest Busdriver gets to boasting comes in Yawning Zeigeist Intro: "I just wanna better chance as most likely I'll sell more records in France." - The Sunday Times |
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