"Deep Investigation"
(Battletown)

This album traveled a long way. First of all it came to earth in Australia and then was shipped all the way to Switzerland. But more importantly, the content of the album was sucked out of far far away galaxies, stories that traveled through time, crypted and now de-crypted, and emotions that are as old as thought itself.
"The Tape" starts this album, with a contradictory mind bomb of a vocal sample, providing the Intro. This next track "Prophetic Scripture", is exactly what has been expressed the paragraph before, combined with a guitar pluck, a lot of forgotten words, and speaking patters getting stuck, because the brain is operating too fast. "Enemy Of The State" samples the Rocky tune, that lately got used several times, but every time is dope beyond believe. Combining it with a somewhat hard matching bass kick, giving a fuck, you wonder where the Australian accent of this cat went. "The Search Begins" revisits movies, with more voice samples, telling us about secret recordings, data storage. "Battletown M.E.L. II" will only make sense to you, if you can understand the meaning of lines like "I rock like I invented it / like Sumerians". Then again, it hopefully gets you to research lies, rumors, facts, suspected theories, etc. Start here. "Interrogation" pushes the subject further, or better starts to plot a counter attack, flowing forward in a story telling fashion. Rasco then gets sampled on "Hip Hop To The Core" that boast with an interesting flute, while the emcees voice freed itself from the shackles of the beat, and hovers above it. But things get sticky, dirty like the mechanical parts in a big machine, "Dark Earth", featuring the co-conspirator Naps, Digga, BVP and Weapon X, is a posse cut, a hammer on every head, not yet hurting enough.

It hopefully gets you to research lies, rumors, facts, suspected theories, etc.

The title track "Deep Investigation" (feat. Outbreak) starts with another voice sample, but the already present jungle noises, the melancholy vibes are only polluted by the ill matching drum, that prevents this from being one of the dopest tracks, that has ever surfaced outta the Down Under. Weapon X, Detect's left hand sidekick, provides the beat for "Soldiers Of Armageddon", a bouncy cut, with a hit three keys piano line. And by now, we are treated to another movie voice sample, folks still looking for 'the tape', while "Rebirth" then takes us into more string vibes, that this time around fit with the drum selected for company. There's even an opera singer somewhere in the back. In the world of conspiracy hunters, much is about the money, as expressed on "Mathematics Vs Money". The single up and down the ladder climbing piano carries the track comfortably. Weapon X then steps forward again on "Final Battle", that isn't really that, as there are two tracks following this. The first one is "End Of The World" that operates as an echo induced dramatic climax to a dramatic album, "Apokalyptic Ones" then being the aftermath. The lone survivors: Detect and Weapon X. Their worries. Gone.
This is like a musical version of your favorite conspiracy book. And as that it's highly enjoyable, scary for those facing these alternative truths for the first time, and a strong confirmation to those that quote "Behold A Pale Horse" at least three times a day. This album will be playing to you in a fast movie, fast page turner, kind of way, without it being pulp literature. It also does not copy vibes of US popularity, but approaches the main ingredients, in a confident 'who gives a fuck' kind of way. Just don't mention on the phone or in an email that you listen to this, cause beware: Big Brother is watching you. (tadah the byk)

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