| Zapotek aka Mnemotrauma of Scheiterhaufen / Offbeaters |
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best albums |
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Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man : Out Of Season
simply deep and beautiful |
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Why? : Oaklandazulasylum
it's passion and truth: "there are very few microwaves in the third world" |
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Soso : Birthday Songs
Soso at his best, pure thoughtful and honestly suffereing lullafication |
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Xololanxinxo : Names
A simple hip hop album that fits 100%: one emcee and one producer. Deeskee lays a wonderful ground for the gifted Xolo. Dream team. |
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Broadcast : Haha Sound |
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Radiohead : Hail To The Thief |
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Mogwai : Happy Songs For Happy People |
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A Silver Mt. Zion : "This Is Our Punk-Rock", Thee Rusted Satellites Gather + Sing |
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Busdriver & Radioinactive with Daedelus : The Weather |
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best songs |
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Maker feat. Qwel : Honestly
don't know how often I flipped back the needle again and again. the title track is undescribably ill. in fact the whole 12" is... |
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Awol One : Try
Hmm, another sing along song |
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Restiform Bodies : Recycle America
the 80s are hard and dirty, don't you think so? |
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Why? : Women Eye 'No'
an essential outcome of life's hard knocks |
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Free Moral Agents 12"
all tracks are strictly mind blowing |
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best producers |
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Meaty Ogre |
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Daddy Kev |
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Sixtoo |
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Buck65 |
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best verse |
| "my man is in the park, feeding pigeons in the name of hip hop" (J on "The Mortage Banker Vs. The Savage" by Free Moral Agents) |
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best emcees |
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Busdriver |
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Qwel |
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Buck65 |
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Awol One |
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Josh Martinez |
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Passage |
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Dose One |
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why? |
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Sage Francis |
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best labels |
Anticon and Mush
they did their thing as my favorites for a long time. in 2003, I think, for the first time things came out - on both - that not really satisfied me. but I can't see anything else that jumps in the gap so far. so i'm looking ahead to 2004. |
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biggest surprise |
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Free Moral Agents 12"
the first hip hop vinyl in a very long time, that I haven't heard anything of, before I picked it up in the store
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biggest disappointment |
| I like to deliver my hatemail personaly, so I don't post it here (smiles) |
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movies I saw |
| "Lichter" and some more I forgot. I guess they were not good enough to remember |
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websites I visited |
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foods I ate |
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what I'd like to see in 2004 |
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new stuff from Restiform Bodies and my other favorite singingmen... |
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watch the Offbeaters empire growing... |
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the further uprise of Subversiv*Records and the explosion caused by the arrival of Equinox records... |
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meeting new people... |
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working with people... |
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and I want more stuff coming out to surprise me... |
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hip hop in 2004 will be... |
| as crazy, groudbreaking, breathtaking, astonishing and ffffresh! as ever |
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my new years resolutions |
| will start smoking, will beat more people, be less polite and start to watch TV |
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