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// SOUND INK - COLAPSUS

© 2002 Sound Ink Records

Review by Keyo
14-12-2002



Colapsus is the debut release from New York label 'Sound Ink' that takes a forward look on Hip Hop and sample based electronic music, frequently overlapping the best aspects of both. Eleven tracks deep, the album is evenly balanced out between vocal hiphop and instrumental tracks.

The album opens with the elevating 'Motions' by King Honey where Mental's vocals weave in and out of the tracks abstract sample structure. On 'Good Friday' Sayyid (ex Anti Pop Consortium) demonstrates his production skills and lets loose his "Coltraine of thought" dropping the "shit to blow the hair off your face like Billy Corrigan".

King Honey's 'Monday Night at Fluids' features the teaming up of the metal faced super villain MF Doom alongside fellow CM Fam member Kurious for a banging track that switches the beat and tempo completely when switching from MF to Kurious and then back again for Doom's 'King Ghidra' Alias.

On 'Human Error' mc Creature outlines his observations of the worlds ills, "Good Samaritans killed by adolescents, their ain't no guessin', life teaches us lessons" over a nextschool beat by Heat Sensor that steps up in urgency each verse to add emphasis to Creatures lyrics.

A few of the tracks draw in worldwide musical influences. Suphala and Tortures 'Do it again' combines live tabla playing with programmed drums, samples and scratching seamlessly. 'Tectonic' from Heat Sensor incorporates middle eastern samples with DJ Fred Ones cutting up spoken word vocals that describe the culture merging beats to an "Afro Eurasian identity eclipse". Elsewhere DJ Mustamassik's 'Gulf Rock Mix' also combines middle eastern vocal samples into layers of drums, synths and scratching into a Bagdad breakbeat mash up.

'Goochi' by Max Bill takes the listener on an immersive instrumental excursion. Similarly 'Swamp Thing' by U.N.I. opens with a sample from a telling of lab bred lifeform that has escaped and brings you on its killing spree. While 'Desperado Move' by Timeblind is a sample driven drivethrough an industrialised cityscape where concrete, electricity and carbon based lifeforms collide.

The final track 'Ataraxis' produced by John Tejada is a trance journey where veteran mc Divine Styler blesses the track with a spoken word stream of consciousness, bringing a meditative conclusion to the compilation. This piece of music sums up the Sound-Ink label's experimental genre melding philosophy.

All in all with 'Colapsus' Sound Ink leaves an indelible mark through a successful alchemy of true Hip Hop values and progressive production styles. The result is a strong debut and a rock solid, block rocking compound of a compilation.



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