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Music - Art - Cinema : Future Funk - Jazz - Soul - Broken Beat - Hip Hop
- Electronica - DeepHouse - Detroit Tech - Drum+Bass |
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The Netherlands are gaining fast in the race for place and position among the European elite of inventive hip hop and future jazz experimentation. North West Metroplois boosted the engines with the excellent Expressions EP. Now delectable duo Rednose Distrikt are set to bust a few cylinders to edge the land of tulips and coffee-not-coffee shops ahead on the final stretch. Kid Sublime and Steven De Peven gather up a selection of tunes from their excellent single releases and add some new exclusives for this debut album. It's out on new label Kindred Spirits, which in the space of a handful of twelve-inches -IG Culture interpreting Sun Ra's Space is the place, tunes by Peven Everett and Sweet Abraham - has revealed itself a shining light in all things deep and broken. Opening interlude Jook has the brass and bass spirit of a funked-up James Bond theme. It slides onto the delicious liquid funk and circling sounds of Mo's, a hip hop hard-bop drop the punch of which has rarely been seen. Zmit is a dope track if there ever was one. Phat beats drop with moody rhodes and vinyl hiss to make your frontal lobes recline and your eyelids heavy with pleasure. Amsterdam sure knows blunted on several levels. Hoor's goes jazzy on us with a broken flavour and again, a maze of drums and light breaks are fused with rhodes chords. Rocken die bak brings a St Germain-style jazzhouse while NY Boom has a wonderful off-kilter chord change beefed up with slighty broken jazzfunk drumwork. Sunshine takes the Hoor's theme and gives it a moody twilight treatment with a great little Super Mario-computer game style break. Most of the album's prize picks have previously been released, but the different singles are getting harder to find -the Na Na twelve-inch is virtually untraceable in record stores now. So long-time fans may want to give the album a listen before buying. New devotees can buy with eyes and ears closed -although the neat Monty Python'esque cover art deserves more than a cursory glance. See how many subtle profanities you can make out... Rednose Distrikt create their very own sound, forward-thinking but with a wonderfully cheeky element to it. And it's remarkably tight without ever sounding muddled or over-polished. Their debut album is entrancingly reclined, dopely blunted, and absolutely ace. Iller dan je ouders means iller than your parents. Is it really? Yes it is! And we love our parents. Review by Nicolai Hartvig |
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Tracklisting : 1) Jook (previously unreleased) |