| I gotta pay more attention to underground hip-hop, maybe. I forgot all about Busdriver, all those Project Blowed comps and releases I had back in the day, and here he comes to smack the fuck outta me with these three cuts from his Fear Of A Black Tangent album and suitable remixes. The man rhymes so fast it’s kind of insane. Out of the originals, “Avantcore” (built around the piano loop from Can’s “Turtles Have Short Legs”) is the winner, a treatise on life when you perform outside your peer group, eschew the thug life, and take shit for it. On the remix tip, I have to recognize, the jazzy, adult-contempo styles of the oft-on point Prefuse 73, and Nobody’s gritty bounce on “Unemployed Black Astronaut." A legitimate surprise, and I have to backpedal to this guy's album, pronto. - Dusted |
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