SUBTITLE - I'm Always Recovering from Tomorrow It starts with an almost unremarkable track, a very cold kind of rap declaimed with a deep voice from the back of the bathroom, and built on a few piano keys ("Textbook Life"). The three following songs are as […]
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF - My Vinyl Weighs a Ton We could find anything on Peanut Butter Wolf's first LP, in fact more a compilation than a regular album. All the styles of the times had found a place, there. "Straight in your face" or more mature kinds of raps, creative beats, experiments, old school accents ("Keep On Rockin It" with the late Charizma), and allusions to the ancients, starting with the title, derived from Public Enemy's "My Uzi Weighs a Ton". And lots of turntablism: "Casio", with Babu, "Phonies", with DJ Design, and most of all the colossal "Tale of Five Cities", created by no less than 11 DJs (Beat Junkies, X-Ecutioners, Cut Chemist, Kid Koala).
GUCCI MANE & DJ HOLIDAY - Trap Back A strong motivation is required, to whoever wants to keep track of Gucci Mane’s innumerable mixtapes. For eight years, the Atlanta rapper has released plenty of them, relentlessly. Look: even before we finished to listen […]
V/A - Project Blowed If you still don't know what a cult album is, or if you are fed up with professional or wannabe music critics using these words more than is reasonable, well, maybe it is time for you to go back to the fundamental and […]
SHAPESHIFTERS - Adopted by Aliens In the year 2000, a period of glory for the indie rap scene in general, and more particularly for this bunch of Angelinos, the Shapeshifters had thought of everything. In addition to Know Future, a record which looked […]
