(Catalogue no. 14690)
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| Title: |
Root Canal |
| Artist: |
Criterion |
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Label: |
Broklyn Beats Records |
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12" |
| Price: |
€ 8.20 |
Mp3 samples: none
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Title Description:
Brooklyn producer shreds the envelope of underground hip hop. Following in the tradition of mystical-dub merchants at WordSound and illbient geniuses Byzar and Timeblind, Brooklyn-based Criterion Thornton expands instrumental hip hop's boundaries on this 12-inch EP. Rather than creating discrete tracks, Criterion composes sidelong pieces that seamlessly coalesce into works of cumulative power. Side 1 starts with distant filtered hand percussion that sounds like horse hooves, then moves into a double-time percus -sive assaults. An edgy, post-industrial menace floats through the mix like a toxic cloud,until near the end of the side a 23 Skidoo-like malarial funk induces a feverish ecstasy. The flip side begins with gritty, oppressive dub a la Scorn and Spectre before it morphs into a stunning collage that teaches an advanced lecture on low-end beat science. Criterion has a slew of releases planned for the rest of 2000, and if Root Canal is indicative of his prowess, he demands your scrutiny
--Alternative Press
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