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MH-222 Octavius - Audio Noir  Octavius has strived to perfect his stunning amalgam of hip-hop, electronic and avant-rock music in the San Francisco underground over the past four years. This dedication has culminated in his Mush full-length release Audio Noir. Serving as a slight departure from the beats and noise frenzy that ignited a buzz around his 2001 work with 4AM, the new release looks to establish Octavius as a purveyor of even more elaborate territories of sound. Experimental freak-outs collide with classic song structures, tension and attitude give way to raw vulnerability, and Octavius' vocal and production techniques are employed to unnerving effect. Audio Noir adds previously missing darkness and edge to the Mush catalog in a way that overwhelms, thrills, and astonishes in equal measure. |
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| An important record - LA Weekly / Literally unforgettable - Industrial Nation / Delicious left-field despondency - Outburn / Great invention and blasted beauty throughout - The Wire / A tense, aggressive and surprisingly beautiful album that dares you to define it as hip-hop - Signal to Noise / A new flavor of hop that's dangerous and mesmerizing - San Francisco Examiner |
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| This man and his trip have been called experimental hip-hop, and sure its hip-hop, because about fifty layers down there might've been a beat or two in the mix at one time. He's aka William Marshall, and he likes to bring the ruffest rap tracks to the chopping block, ramrodding already radical stuff through a mountain of distortion and freestyle electronic surgical deep-fry, liquefying it, somewhat putrefying it and then, strangely, finding in its original cracked aggression a comfortingly chilling beauty. This is an important record, in a way, 'cause it's about the true evolution of a previously challenging style or form, and not about the straitjacketing of same to get paid or whatever. And as you all surely realize, sometimes art can wipe the floor with commerce. - LA Weekly |
2XLP/Out Of Print