Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Edan - Beauty and the Beat

A jazzy mix of psychedelia and hip-hop, with vague traces of trip-hop. Occasionally a familiar sound - say, a James Brown grunt - will penetrate the mix, but Edan's sound is all-original. It's like the strangeness of 3 Feet High and Rising without the whimsy. Sound bits, samples, voices fade in and out of the mix while the drums sound like there's a thick layer of smoke in the air with a damp kind of sound. It's a 3 Feet High and Rising for the 00s, tougher and shorter. No skits. A little bit of the weirdness of Kool Keith, but none of the spotty track record.

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