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MH-401 Various Artists - Ropeladder 12  Cancel your piano lessons and sell off the livestock. It's a partial preview of the onslaught of full-length releases to come forward from the Mush generator, a spirited gathering of the most prolific underground artists in hip-hop. If some of the names are not yet familiar, this is your wake-up call. Spanning the completely experimental to the sound classic, Ropeladder 12 assembles the most hungry and talented artists of our generation. From bare bones beats to orchestral soundtracks, the music is of its own kind and standard. From meticulous rhyme to boisterous free-verse, the poetry is irreplaceable. Over thirty contributing artists share with Mush, their most unforgettable works. |
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| When you hear the word underground anymore it's likely someone searching to be part of a subculture they haven't got admission to. What we call posers, are those that knock on doors for the hip-factor rather than just end up where they're at by keepin' it real. It's even rarer still, that hip-hop and underground are truthfully connected in sentences that don't suggest someone's frontin'. Feel confident that the upcoming roster of Mush releases will present tastemakers in the haute-couture of beatery, boisterous free-verse, and poetic experimentalism as well as well-intentioned melodic standard styles. Contributors to this collection hail from New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, Baltimore and San Francisco representing styles as varied as their neighborhood's economics, traffic and weather. If you have been searching the local record shop for street-level hip-hop rumblings, this is as good as any a place to start the search. Where you'll end up after Mush starts rollin' phat releases to the dealers is another story entirely. - Silver Girl |
3XLP/Out Of Print