{"id":10613,"date":"2004-10-13T06:16:02","date_gmt":"2004-10-12T20:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuartbuchanan.com\/?p=10613"},"modified":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T05:12:41","slug":"machinedrum-omzo-slam-revolution-cyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/2004\/10\/13\/machinedrum-omzo-slam-revolution-cyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Machinedrum, Omzo, Slam Revolution, Cyne"},"content":{"rendered":"

MACHINEDRUM\u00a0[U.S.]<\/strong>
\n$$legs<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nmltply<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\ni’m new to these guys, but the ever-helpful (and wallet-loosening)\u00a0bleep.com<\/a>\u00a0describes their last album (‘now you know’) as a release “that helped define the digital\/cutup hip hop sound”. and there’s infinite shades of early\u00a0funkstorung<\/strong>\u00a0in there – i adore the germans’ ‘additional productions’ release from way back, it was a genuine eye-opener for me, in that i’d never heard anything quite like it. micro-editing matched with dust + scratches taken to the extreme, all the while retaining an all important sense of ryhtym and melody. their mixes for both\u00a0wu tang clan<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0bjork<\/strong>\u00a0still remain classics of their genre. but we’re talking about\u00a0machinedrum<\/strong>\u00a0here – and it would be unfair to wholly associate them with another artist. the two tracks above are taken from their forthcoming\u00a0merck<\/strong>\u00a0release ‘bizness’. ‘$$legs’ is all dirt and beats and absolutely delicious, whereas ‘mltply’ is built around a great flute loop and a head-nodding 4-4, with what sounds like spliced guitar dropping in halfway through. the last minute disintegrates the track completely, furious editing taking the song to the edge of destruction – ouch! now that\u00a0funkstorung<\/strong>\u00a0have moved onto much more accessible territory with their latest album, maybe it’s left to\u00a0machinedrum<\/strong>\u00a0to carry the torch for the glitch hip hop genre? [merck site<\/a>] + check out an older\u00a0free mp3 release<\/a>\u00a0from monotonik.
\nOMZO<\/strong>\u00a0[SENEGAL]
\nmissalu aduna<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\n+
\nSLAM REVOLUTION<\/strong>\u00a0[SENEGAL]
\nwax degg<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\nmore african hip-hop thanks to our friends at\u00a0nomadic wax<\/a>. both tracks are taken from their new release “african underground vol. 1 hip-hop senegal” which aims to provide a contemporary snap-shot from what is arguably africa’s home of hip hop. unlike many compilations claiming to be the ‘real deal’, this is actually the genuine article – recorded on location in dakar, calling on artists that you’re unlikely to hear anywhere else any time soon.\u00a0omzo<\/strong>\u00a0(pictured) takes a less agressive musical approach than many of his american counterparts, but his lyrics are (apparently) no less incisive. his 2000 release ‘kunu abal a beut’ (trans: ‘the hand that leads is the hand that rules’) is cited as having a direct effect on the elections of the time, when the standing government was ousted.\u00a0slam revolution<\/strong>‘s ‘wax degg’ is my favourite of the two, mostly due to the production skills on display and i love listening to on-going rhymes in a seemingly impenetrable language – especially when the only english you’ll hear is the occasional “fucker!” dropped into the mix.\u00a0slam revolution<\/strong>\u00a0are one of the dakar’s original crews, founded by\u00a0shaffai<\/strong>\u00a0(see recent post) and who have since gone their separate ways. according to info from nomadic wax: “the crew recently suffered a devastating loss when fellow mc and longtime friend\u00a0mohammed ba\u00a0<\/strong>(aka tipse) was murdered while on a religious pilgrimage to touba (senegal\u00eds religious center) and is still an unsolved mystery”. purchase ‘african undergound volume one’\u00a0here<\/a>.
\nCYNE<\/strong>\u00a0[U.S.]
\nsteady<\/strong>\u00a0mp3<\/a>
\na miami-based hip hop crew who have been releasing tunes on must!delicious \/ rice and beans and are expected to drop a new album on the excellent city center offices label in 2005. i don’t know how many other hip hop artists appear on the cco label, but my knowledge of them extends mostly to deep, lush electronica – their 2000 compilation ‘cashier escape route’ (an essential purchase) featured artists such as\u00a0skanform<\/strong>,\u00a0solvent<\/strong>,\u00a0to rococo rot<\/strong>,\u00a0pole<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0isan<\/strong>. which suggests interesting potential from\u00a0cyne<\/strong>\u00a0and possibly a critical release when the album drops. the above mp3 is taken from their early e.p. ‘movement’ and is a hard polemic built around a beautiful, wistful vocal sample. check out their full range of releases on\u00a0forced exposure<\/a>.
\n+ a quick thanks to\u00a0woebot<\/a>\u00a0for their recent heads-up to fat planet. their critique of mp3 blogs is stop-on and it’s well worth checking out some of their other suggested destinations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MACHINEDRUM\u00a0[U.S.] $$legs\u00a0mp3 mltply\u00a0mp3 i’m new to these guys, but the ever-helpful (and wallet-loosening)\u00a0bleep.com\u00a0describes their last album (‘now you know’) as a release “that helped define the digital\/cutup hip hop sound”. and there’s infinite shades of early\u00a0funkstorung\u00a0in there – i adore the germans’ ‘additional productions’ release from way back, it was a genuine eye-opener for me, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[483,684,445,1057,1175,1186,1323,1358,1508],"class_list":["post-10613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fat-planet","tag-africa","tag-cyne","tag-fat-planet-blog","tag-machinedrum","tag-north-america","tag-omzo","tag-senegal","tag-slam-revolution","tag-united-states","missing-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15548,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10613\/revisions\/15548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stuartbuchanan.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}