For this week:
o9 - 'Church of the Ghetto PC' (Schematic)
From Schematic's site, this bit sums it up quite well:
http://schematic.net/newsF.htm
"Church of the Ghetto P.C. is an aural experience of jaw-dropping agog,
like reading a new language, a kind of graffiti action-script dedicated to
all the industrial back-alley disjecta of our Bill Gates-induced modernity.
Sharing slang with the Schematic crew, o9 can still talk minimal with the
Raster-Noton label, noise-therapy with Mego, and knows the uprock
narratives of Warp's great masters. o9's voice has the whole idiomatic
spectrum intact and yet still the gospel truth is that o9 has a vocabulary
all his own.
Nothing can prepare you for his application of shamanistic sound, those
calked beats and rhythm clusters, that catechistic technical polish that
brings beaming luster to screen-frozen darkness. Church of the Ghetto P.C.
is a stunning and convulsive ripple of deep-membrane funk and syntactical
synth notes. It's not old school, it's old testament, not high-tech, but high
priest. It's as important as the fucking Bible. Cracking the egg code on
total beat typography, o9 has written the first hard-driven masterpiece of
this new dead-end, face-to-the-terminal century." -- Lee Henderson
Don't let the "Ghetto" fool ya:
there's no rapping, there're no vocals, and it's ~not~ hiphop.
seek
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