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MH-201 Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle  A Birdcatcher in a no-piece suit and a Town Crier in the round, Circle is the critically acclaimed full-length from vocalist Doseone and producer Boom Bip. The New York Times has named Circle one of the "Top-Ten Worthwhile Albums of the Year" and the duo have been rewarded with over a dozen artist profiles including a feature in The Wire and nods to Doseone as Spin's "Incoming" and CMJ's "On the Verge" artist-of-the-month. A cohesive work of word and sound that ends where it begins and emulates the child within, Circle combines honest word and live instrumentation with an amalgam of sixties, seventies, eighties, and nineties compositions. Doseone does it all, prose at light speed, in slow speak, and even bird calls. Circle is at once like everything and nothing before it - and what comes next will not be the same. |
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| A masterpiece, fladdout - Your Flesh / Let them take your inner ear outer there. - NME / Invigorating, wildly innovative and inventive - Play Louder / Ambitious, off the wall, and impossible to justice in a review - Straight No Chaser / A landmark moment in hip-hop history - Exclaim! / This might be the best... document to have emerged from hip-hop's savant-garde - The Wire |
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| There are loads of albums that would like to think they're a little different. There are plenty that endeavor to be somewhat out there. Then there's this offering by producer Boom Bip and vocalist Doseone. Fuck, this is odd. How to describe? Well, for Doseone, imagine for starters William S Burroughs with the quick lyrical liquidness of Kool Keith, collaborating with Spike Milligan. Then oddify it further. Random quotations: "It's a sly perspective projector if you will;" "not that a slug can read by any means;" "Jesus wasn't a carpenter, he was a gardener." The music matches, coming on like Dj Shadow guesting on the Muppets or experimental hip-hop as might have been extended by Frank Zappa. It's a record that's bursting with strange ideas and stranger samples, so much so that often it sounds more akin to the barking plunderphonics of Negativland and their ilk. As such it is brilliant, off the wall (where the wall was built by Gaudi), daring, unique, silly, skewedly perceptive, surprising and seriously weird. The album really is invigorating, wildly innovative and inventive and utterly, totally way out there. Its investigation is a must. - Play Louder |
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