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SOSO - Birthday Songs (Japanese Edition)

Last year, soso started getting some attention from music critics. His last album, Tenth Street & Clarence, received some praise from people usually not too familiar with Clothes Horse Records. So it was perfect timing that now, in 2006, Japan's Hue Records decided to rerelease Birthday Songs, the Canadian's best album so far. As usual with its releases, the label didn't publish the record as such, but with a new packaging, including some notes in Japanese, and lyrics in both languages. The rapper contributed as well. He drew the dog on the cover art, to replace the birthday cake of the previous version. And he corrected or added a few tracks.

ASTRONAUTALIS - The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters

A small buzz has recently started around Andy Bothwell, a.k.a. Astronautalis, a new rapper who has been presented to the indie audience as a new hero for the intimist folk rap sub-genre, a common practice now. Even […]

EIBOL - Karma Kingdom

You may not know EiboL (say it "eyeball"). This guy, though, has been active on the New York rap scene since the late 90's. With Losaka, StayInSane and Hippo, his colleagues from the Hand Held Aspects (H2A) […]

SOSO - Tenth Street and Clarence

The newest release from Soso starts where the previous one had stopped. Once again, lyrics are about a Clarence, and this dead child whose birthday was celebrated on the gloomy Birthday Songs. Nobody knows if this story is autobiographic or not, and if the scars exposed by the rapper are real or fake. Anyway, the wounds are still hurting, judging by the album's atmosphere.

EXISTEREO - Crush Groove

Released one year after the great Dirty Deeds and Dead Flowers (2003), Existereo's new album is made of the same wood. Like it, Crush Groove is full of guests, styles, and very eclectic beats. It looks like some crowded compilation; especially since it includes tracks already released on previous records

TOOLSHED - Illustrated

Illustrated is made of the same wood as Schemata, the very good album thanks to which we discovered Toolshed, in 2002. It is also of the same ilk as the previous album, an untitled one, they released in 2000. And maybe, it is similar to the group's other recordings, now untraceable. Timbuktu (MC, producer), Choke and Psyborg (MCs), B Swizzle (DJ), Danny Miles (percussionist), Andrew McCormick (bassist) and Pat Giles (guitarist) are not trying to change their recipe and flavor.

GREEK - 9 Steps To Scott Baio Fame

This man is the new Michael Jackson. He is the American Dream. Well, at least, this is what he pretends. Full of confidence, Jimmy Greek says so on the bombastic "Tea Party For Michael", and then on "Dusty […]

DJ SHADOW - The Private Press

Six years, no less, have spent between Endtroducing… and The Private Press. And they were more than sufficient to move from one era to the next. Now that the trip hop fad is over, and that DJ Shadow's rap roots are fully recognized - thanks to the multiples releases and rereleases of his Quannum collective, and to the arrival of a new generation of indie rappers influenced by him, at least indirectly - it was time to confirm the excellence of Endtroducing… with a brand new album.

El-P - Fantastic Damage

We truly hope time will prove us wrong. But for the time being, the major piece by the man who originated hip-hop as we view it, the man without whom this webzine would probably not even exist, has nothing fantastic, and the damage has been (probably too much) controlled.

TTC - Ceci n'est pas un Disque

As years and singles followed one another, TekiLatex, Tido Berman and Cuizinier have kept reminding us what being surprised feels like. Their first album, which they entitled the Magritte way, is no exception to their rule. Ceci n’est pas un Disque (This is not a record) is not just about putting together what has already been done, it stands out by the new evolution in the sound and the way the trio works.

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