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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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| This rather remarkable record from the Anticon fringes came out a couple of years ago on the American Mush label, but has just been released over here. Part regression therapy session, part open mic night at the original Cabaret Voltaire, part madman mumbling on the street corner, this might be the best, and certainly most challenging, document to have emerged from hip-hop's savant-garde. With Dose's logorrhea, his constantly shifting perspective from his mic persona to his 'real' incarnation as Adam Drucker and his obsession with religion ("I found God, then lost him again in the gathering crowd"), this is hip-hop from the lunatic fringe. Boom Bip constructs the perfect gestalt for Dose's shrink rap: calliopes whirling around a schizophrenic's mind, chimes twinkling like mobiles above a baby's crib, icicle marimbas and Serengeti drums. - The Wire |
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