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label:
industry standard
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producers:
meckeneck, profound
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| website: Industry
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| tracklisting |
| 1. Intro |
| 2. Elementary Blessed |
| 3. Kennetical Movements
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| 4. Barren Zones |
| 5. Interlude |
| 6. Another Lap |
| 7. Precise Madness |
| 8. A-Bomb and INF |
| 9. Iamaini |
| 10. Freestyle |
| 11. Controled Conception |
| 12. Pages |
| 13. Another Lap (Remix) |
| 14. Q-Ball and Curt
Cazal |
| 15. Eat A Banana |
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Industry |
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How about a melodic
album, that's not pop and not r'n'b? How about an album
that is melancholy at times, happy and humorous at others,
deep and dark, hopeful and spiritual at others, smooth
and funky? How about a beat you can feel in your head
and heart? How about lyrics that keep you listening,
rather than mentally dozing off? How about an album
that is ahead of the standard, that takes it and advances
it and shovels it back to the industry, setting a new
standard? What if that album is being released completely
independent, with full artist control? And how about
actually supporting this, although you've never heard
of it before?
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There's a feast being
thrown in front of your feet. Slow rolling drums enter
the sphere of your system, while Genesis doesn't brag,
but shows his skills. This introduction also warms us
for "Elementary Blessed",
where a shy piano guides melodically over machinery
hammering noise, along with a whiny bass line and 'philosophical
flashes' by Denetics, Genesis and Jaaman. To whom the
next solo track "Kennetical
Movements" (a-side of the single) belongs.
"Barren Zone" takes
the plucking strings to a next level, with another melodic
and this time almost bouncy but certainly happy and
hopeful beat by Meckeneck and Profound, the producers
of this album. With the emcees sounding confident, casual
if not cocky, they get a break on "Interlude".
The beat is made up off a dope and chopped up opera
voice and a funky drum and some hating answering machine
complaining, until the beat switches and smooth vibes
take over.
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Saturated pianos keep
"Another Lap" wet
with chords. But only until the beat suddenly breaks
down low and moody, until it switches again and shifts
to the monstrously dope sample, also heard on MHz's
"World Premier". This obese track takes us to one of
the dopest in a long time. Sampling Billie Holiday's
"southern trees baring strange fruits", "Precise
Madness" must be one of the most heart
touching tracks about the struggle, that has the potential
to be a hymn, a classic standard of hip hop, a track
that should be played, and heard, and all people would
understand.
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Then there's another
answering machine insert, this time it's "A-Bomb
And INF" giving shout outs, while later on
it's "Q-Ball And Curt Cazal"
on the track by this name. And then there's the b-side
to the single: "Iamaini".
Guitars and a hitting drum kick perform as the background
to Denetics kicking "mental composites, my phiosophics
rock the progress / of common logic/my process alien
as flying objects / but not the nonsense I condense
complex concepts / into a form simple to digest / the
alchemist creates the limitless, bio-organic stimulus
/ that drop inhibitance and underground inhabitants
/ flagging this as the fattest shit is accurate/ passing
it similar to how hash is hit". "Freestyle"
is a barely uptempo cut with more guitars riding the
track, while "Controlled Conception"
takes mysticism to another level, with another melodic
trip through rising soundfields, melancholically carrying
you with this Genesis solo cut. And then there's "Pages",
hard strings, a clocking piano and hard drums have Jaaman
spit "sounds be blowing outside like clothes on a line
/ as long as I put it on a page first / way burst the
flavors / come later with the stage thirst / I stay
versed all praise to papers / all the verbal strut clear
cutting acres / good uses c.p.u be getting still/ productivity
turns my print into a mill / mill meaning dough if so
than I will / cause it's gods will to build and use
all skill".
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And then there's the
"Another Lap (Remix)",
a sad, mystic, composition bursting with a dramatic
piano, there's the confusing monkey chant of "Eat
A Banana", tongue breaking rhyme style, and
a unfitting drum, that make the producers sound somewhat
uncomfortable. Finally don't miss out on another answering
machine interlude as a hidden track. And speaking of
not missing out: don't miss out on this album!
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| review:
tadah
the byk |
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