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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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| You tripped and banged your head on the asphalt. When your hand went to your face those little speckled pebbles and a bit of dirt rolled off at the touch, but the bruise was already swelling. Behind the fence the boombox was trying to eat the tape, Octavius, Audio Noir, play button stuck in gear. Busted hip-hop, drowned electronics, shouted and whispered vocals from inside the smash-windowed abandoned house no one dares go near. Dalek and Sonic Sum sometimes visited there, but everyone else was too scared, everyone else remembers being dizzy, being knocked out for a terrifying moment. - XLR8R |
2XLP/Out Of Print