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MH-235 Busdriver - Fear Of A Black Tangent  With the most cohesive work of his career, Busdriver turns his razor sharp wit on his place in the music industry with his new full-length release, Fear Of A Black Tangent. It is the follow-up to his career establishing release, Temporary Forever. Songs covering small club touring, independent music promotion, and the barrage of uninspired hip-hop releases on the market all contribute to the album's theme of trying to break as a emerging artist. Busdriver has taken a year's worth of material and trimmed it down to thirteen impressive tracks that range from lightning fast Project Blowed style raps to sing-song pop. The album features production by Daedelus, Danger Mouse, Thavius Beck, Omid, and Paris Zax and has guest appearances by fellow Project Blowed MCs Abstract Rude, Ellay Khule, Mikah-9, and 2Mex. |
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| Reviews Summary |
| Outstanding - Urb / Genius - BBC / Experimental and fresh - Hip-Hop Connection / Intoxicating - Straight No Chaser / Decidedly cool and deadly - XLR8R / Treads where most wouldn't dare - DJ / Busdriver straight kills it - Hour / Certainly the best I've heard in a long time - Indigo Flow |
| Avant-rap is back in scorching effect! As previously noted we'd grown a little tired of indulgent left-field hip-hop these last few months but in only the last two weeks our heads and hearts have been retuned by the back-on-form Antipop alias Airborn Audio and Anticon as a whole. Now add to that list the Busdriver and Mush label who via this licensed album to Ninja Tune and the incredible Lab Waste CD (also out this week) complete the circle. Backed by an awesome array of beatsmiths, Busdriver turns down the insanity for a moment and turns on the originality humour in his unique rhyme style. The producers on serious form count Daedelus (whose unreal Exquisite Corpse is due soon on Mush/Ninja), Paris Zax, Thavius Beck, Omid and even Danger Mouse. Daedelus's tracks steer clear of the left-field freeform jumble that hung round The Weather - proof, just listen to "Wormholes" and feel the tweaking freshness. "Map Your Psyche" samples cello/strings, Robert De Niro, killer beats and guest raps from Abstract Rude and Ellay Khule - a dope jam. "Cool Band Buzz" dives into Bus' self depreciating ego over a wicked and new styled Danger Mouse production. His Project Blowed cousins Mikah 9 and 2-Mex guest on the world weary 808 beats, and guitar jam "Sphinx's Coonery" and Daedelus returns on the dusted driftbeat lament with the best lyrics called "Lefty's Lament." As a bonus you get three semi-hidden remixes from D-Styles (bruising cut n' paste digi scratch pimpin'), Nobody (psych-hop beauty) and Prefuse 73 (chopped up hard-beat waltzing with a serious bump). The best Busdriver album yet by quite a distance so if you've been a little wary before then drop your fear and check this out. - Boomkat |
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