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- COLAPSUS
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2002 Sound
Ink Records
Review
by Keyo
14-12-2002
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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.
Link: [ Sound-Ink
Records ]
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