I picked up a release by Skull yesterday. It's either 'Snaps' by Skull, or
just 'Skull snaps'. Who can say? Who cares? :-)
It's a collection of 5 songs by the Underdog, under his more experimental
guise of Skull, on Output Recordings. The only track I know of that has been
released before was included on
I loved his tune on 'Headz', back in the day, and am pleased to say he's one
of the ones (the few, to be honest) that's still sounding good now. These
tracks are ramshackle, distorted and noisy affairs, but definitely stemming
from hip-hop rather than industrial influences. Loops are lazy, falling out of
time frequently, and every riff or snatch of melody is subsumed under a wave
of record crackle.
Um, and this is a good thing. Trust me. :-)
If you're into the less clean and tidy end of what used to get called
"trip-hop" (*) then I'd recommend giving this a try. For that matter if you
enjoy the instrumental stuff by Company Flow and/or Vadim it could well be up
your alley. But watch that distortion on the beats.
Michael
* I wanted that genre name to die for so long, and now I'm not sure how to
describe releases like this except by that name. Damn it. :-)
^
Hear some Jet Jaguar
http://mp3.com/jetjaguar/
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