Fever, Too bad but true (DHR) CD
Only the other day I was describing the SMP album (see elsewhere) as
the kind of sound I'd expect from DHR doing hip hop and now I've got
the chance to find out. Fever stick a knife into the flaccid belly of
contemporary hip hop and take a large step back (in the day) as the
entrails spill out. Returning to the times when beats and rhymes were
everything, Fever (two Berliners) proceed to fuck the beats up and
bury them under a layer or two of sludge distortion and strange
electronic tones, delivering the rhymes in the same twisting drawl
employed by New Kingdom or Cypress Hill at their most stoned. It's a
rejuvenation and a reinvention more fantastic than a mud-pack turning
Yoda into Princess Leia. If it's futuristic technological hip hop
you're after, or just some enormous breaks, forget the increasingly
limp likes of B.O.B.B.Y D.I.G.I.T.A.L and get the furious beatfreakery
of Digital Hardcore.
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