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MH-401 Various Artists - Ropeladder 12  Cancel your piano lessons and sell off the livestock. It's a partial preview of the onslaught of full-length releases to come forward from the Mush generator, a spirited gathering of the most prolific underground artists in hip-hop. If some of the names are not yet familiar, this is your wake-up call. Spanning the completely experimental to the sound classic, Ropeladder 12 assembles the most hungry and talented artists of our generation. From bare bones beats to orchestral soundtracks, the music is of its own kind and standard. From meticulous rhyme to boisterous free-verse, the poetry is irreplaceable. Over thirty contributing artists share with Mush, their most unforgettable works. |
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| This is the year’s best compilation to date. 5/5 - Revolver / Strange, beautiful, and stunning. Record of the month. 5/5 - Muzik / Signifies that the future of hip-hop is here, and it ain’t on Def Jam, my peoples - Urb |
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| Boasting fourteen tracks the principal quality of Ropeladder 12 is its diversity. Flaunting everything from instrumentals and off-key singing to spoken-word aesthetics and straight microphone ripping, Mush presents a large palette of styles, giving the listener a taste of what's available and just waiting to be discovered. Since musical (for that matter, any) tastes are subjective, what one person considers incoherent and confusing, another may find innovative and refreshing. With experimental hip-hop, that subjectivity becomes so much more individualized that it's almost trivial for one person to express his or her views on a particular piece of work, since it's all but guaranteed that that opinion will vary (oftentimes drastically) from anybody else's. It must be understood that because hip-hop is still a new art form, many are just beginning to comprehend and many more are just beginning to discover - for it to be progressing the way it has is extraordinary in itself. Some may hate Ropeladder 12 because of its peculiarity, while others may love it for that same reason. Whether the album is good or not can best be summed up by the finale, "Go (Away and Think)." Jel and Dj Mayonnaise challenge listeners to do just what the title suggests - interpret Ropeladder 12 for themselves. It's a fair, but imperative challenge that all forms of art should demand from their audiences ‚ and an excuse, for this reviewer anyway, to listen to Ropeladder 12 again. - Rebirth |
3XLP/Out Of Print