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MH-901 Various Artists - Mush Tour Spring 2002  In the spring of 2002, Mush records embarked on its first organized tour. After two weeks rehearsal in Los Angeles, seventeen people climbed aboard a tour bus for thirty North American and nine European shows. Headlined by cLOUDDEAD, the bill also included Reaching Quiet (backed by a full band), Boom Bip & Doseone, Radioinactive (with his Pyramidi all-stars band in full costume), and Labtekwon. The final two shows in the US were in San Francisco at The Great American Music Hall and Los Angeles at the El Rey. Both shows were professionally recorded and have been mixed down along with candid footage shot during the rest of the tour for a ninety minute DVD. The tracklist includes songs from the artist's Mush releases and is a testament to the amazing live show and hard work that made Mush's first tour an overwhelming success. |
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| It's fascinating, hilarious weirdness - The Stranger / Fun to watch and listen to - Ghetto Blaster / Drives home that point that Mush Tour 2002 was indeed a groundbreaking venture unto itself - Grooves / Transcendent and exciting - Pop Matters |
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| Back in the summer of 2002, when its particular genus was still in its embryonic stages, then fledgling label Mush jammed a group of its best and brightest into a tour bus and set out across the country to blow minds and shatter expectations. Professionally recorded at a pair of venues (the El Rey in Los Angeles and San Francisco's Great American Music Hall), Mush Tour 2002 is an intriguing, if occasionally frustrating, document of that time. Over the course of ninety minutes you are treated to bewildering and beautiful sets by cLOUDDEAD, Reaching Quiet (who rocks the house with a full band), Boom Bip and Doseone, Radioinactive (who also brings out his own Arkestra-like live band), and Labtekwon. While each performer that hits the stage throughout the course of the disc pushes the known boundaries of hip-hop to its virtual breaking point, their performance skills border on the nonexistent - there's not a whole lot to watch as cLOUDDEAD hunch over arcane electronics and wrench beautiful noise out of them, and the same can be said for Boom and Dose's set. Reaching Quiet and Radioinactive fare better, as their live band pumps some much-needed viscerality into the setting, with Radio's band, in particular, putting the pedal to the metal and blowing the roof off the sucka. Unfortunately, there's no cool behind-the-scenes extras or documentaries, but the pure focus on performance drives home that point that Mush Tour 2002 was indeed a groundbreaking venture unto itself, and perhaps more importantly, the launching point for the current shrink-rap insurgence. - Grooves |
