Showing posts with label 2005. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2005. Show all posts

Edan - Beauty And The Beat (2005)

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1. Polite Meeting Intro
2. Funky Voltron F/Insight
3. I See Colours
4. Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
5. Murder Mystery
6. Torture Chamber F/Percee P
7. Making Planets F/Mr. Lif
8. Time Out (Segue)
9. Rock and Roll F/Dagha
10. Beauty
11. Science of the Two F/Insight
12. Smile
13. Promised Land
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Boston's Edan has scored the hip-hop triple crown, rapping, programming and sampling at a masters level on his second full-length. As an MC, he bows down while hyping himself up on the wink-nudge titled "Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme," giving extended shout-outs to the history of hip-hop, from Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash through to Ultramagnetic MC's and Prince Paul, all over a break as dusty and faded as an episode of Carnivale. "Polite Meeting" offers a beat and sample collage on par with the current work of DJ Shadow and RJD2, and one is left to really ponder at the possibility of Edan trying to perform the beats and vocals live. Def Jux bright star Mr. Lif makes a guest appearance on the heavily psychedelic "Making Planets," which leads into a full-on Hendrix-inspired freaky-blues interlude. Percee P and Insight also drop by to flow over some of Edan's time and space warping musical beds (to call these "beats" would be an immense oversimplification) but Dagha guests on the grittiest rocker, "Rock'N'Roll" which manages a full-on Marshall stack set to ten, and a guitar assault that somehow avoids all of the failings of rap-rock. If hip-hop had existed in the days of the Filmore, Woodstock and the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Edan would have been right on the bus.
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MC Frontalot - Nerdcore Rising (2005)

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1. Charity Case
2. Goth Girls
3. Pr0n S0ng
4. Yellow Lasers
5. This Old Man
6. Nerdcore Rising
7. Which MC Was That?
8. Penny Arcade Theme
9. Floating Bridge
10. Hassle: The Dorkening
11. Crime Spree
12. Special Delivery
13. Message No. 419
14. I Heart Fags
15. Braggadocio
16. Indier Than Thou
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Putting the name of the genre right there in the name of the album is a bold move. While it helps record-store clerks file the CD correctly it also means you'd better be good at whatever genre label it is you're adopting or, as in this case, naming. Fortunately MC Frontalot happens to be the best there is at what he does and what he does is rap about being a Poindexter. Nerdcore Rising is not only the fledgling nerdcore hip-hop subgenre's defining statement and manifesto, but its best release. This album alone is the argument for why people who played Dungeons & Dragons should be not only allowed, but encouraged to rap.Abandoning the blatantly unauthorized samples hijacked from the likes of Fiona Apple and Clyde Stubblefield that he attribute to DJ CPU in his demos, with Nerdcore Rising Frontalot has found a producing partner (and sometimes keyboardist) in Baddd Spellah and a crew of like-minded geeks to fill in on drums, bass, tuba, and other instruments. This musical accompaniment is tilted to suit the subject matter so that "Goth Girls", which is about being too uncool to date girls in black, has eerie cello and washes of dirgey guitar while "Pron Song" has appropriately glitchy beats for a tune about being addicted to Interrnet pornography. As well as quirky topics like those, Frontalot's also capable of tackling more mundane rap fare, although it's done in his personal style. After Public Enemy's Revolverlution track "Son of a Bush" there were plenty of MCs ready to take political potshots over the Iraq War, but their earnest sentiments were often couched in naïve imagery. Frontalot's "Special Delivery" is a remedy to that, a political track that makes its points with intellect rather than resorting to vague conspiracy theories. "Braggadocio is a boast track in which he compares himself to the Karate Kid and claims "I stand 77-feet tall/I got eight balls/all y'all are subject to my thrall/I act appalled/when in receipt of less than the highest honor/someday I'll be both revered and passé, like Madonna." If rap fandom can take the endless boasting, thuggery, cosmic ramblings, booty worship, gun-talk, and revolution-talk of traditional hip-hop seriously, Nerdcore Rising makes a solid case they should add self-deprecating geekishness to that list of encouraged subjects.
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MC Frontalot @ Freestyle 101

Edan - Torture Chamber (Remix) (2005)-VLS

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Side A:
01- Torture Chamber (Cut Chemist Remix Vocal)
02- Torture Chamber (Cut Chemist Remix Instrumental)
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Side AA:
03- Torture Chamber (Edan's Original Mixx Vocal)
04- Torture Chamber (Edan's Original Mixx Instrumental)
05- Torture Chamber (Edan's Original Mixx Acapella)
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Airborn Audio - Good Fortune (2005)

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1- Monday Through Sunday
2- Brights Lights
3- Miami / The Jungle
4- Know Who You Are
5- Inside The Globe
6- Best Shit In The World
7- House Of Mirrors
8- This Year
9- Now I Lay Me Down
10- My Eyes
11- Wings
12- Paradise
13- Close Your Eyes
14- NYC
15- Trust Me
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These guys are 2 of the most creative rap artists ever
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(Creative & Original Rap.. Nice Beats!!)
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Airborn Audio - Close Encounters the mixtape (2005)


1-Intro
2-Crystal Ball
3-Streets To The Stars
4-The Essence
5-Always
6-i 95
7-Sayyid Freestyle/Alchemist
8-100 Miles
9-Man I Seen It I Did It
10-2010
11-Lately
12-HP's Mercury
13-Interlude
14-Sherm Instrumental
15-Win Or Lose
16-Earthqwauke
17-Good Fortune Preview
18-Quickmix
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Airborn Audio - Bright Lights / Inside the Globe (2005)-VLS

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Side A:
A1-Bright Lights
A2-Bright Lights (Instrumental)
A3-Bonus Beats
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Side B:
B1-Inside The Globe
B2-Inside The Globe (Instrumental)
B3-PSA
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