Edan-Primitive Plus-Promo-CDR-FLAC-2002-THEVOiD

                              DRIFT INTO THE VOID
 Info   
     Artist  | Edan
     Title   | Primitive Plus
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 57:09
     Label   | Lewis Recordings                     Store   | 2002
     Catalog | LEWISCD001P                          Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 835 kbps                             Size    | 361.76 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. '83 Wildin                                                  2:25
     02. One Man Arsenal                                             3:42
     03. Humble Magnificent                                          3:02
     04. Migraine (Almighty Dusted Version)                          3:28
     05. Key-Bored                                                   1:38
     06. Emcees Smoke Crack                                          3:43
     07. Number One Hit Record                                       1:59
     08. Syllable Practice (Original)                                3:05
     09. Good Evening (Skit)                                         0:29
     10. Rap Perfection (Feat. Mr. Lif)                              3:27
     11. Mic Manipulator                                             3:54
     12. Primitive Plus                                              2:20
     13. You Suck (Feat. Father Time)                                3:49
     14. Run That Shit!                                              4:15
     15. Ultra '88 (A Tribute)                                       2:03
     16. Syllable Practice (12" Version)                             3:09
     17. A.E.O.C.                                                    3:04
     18. Sing It, Shitface / Let's Be Friends (Bonus Tracks)         7:37
 Notes  
     There was a small but vital hip-hop genesis in Boston at the tail-end of
     the 1990s led by a motley group of artists (Porn Theatre Ushers,
     Skitzofreniks, 7L & Esoteric, Mr. Lif, Insight) who shared a number of
     musical attributes - a love of block-rockin' retro-beats and veneration for
     the hip-hop 'new school' of the late 80s and early '00s, and a proclivity
     for irreverent, tongue-in-cheek lyrical styles, to name the most
     significant. Bedroom geek Edan (aka the Humble Magnificent) was the most
     block-rockin' and irreverent of all Boston's underground scientists.
     A triple threat on the microphone, as a producer, and behind the wheels of
     steel, his music - a willfully oddball and eccentric blend of rap's past
     and future - caught on first among the progressive cognoscenti of London,
     but had such exuberance and appeal that it was only a matter of time before
     it staked out territory on its home turf as well. 'There can be no future
     without a past'. Never before has an album exemplified that hip-hop credo
     with more maverick boldness than "Primitive Plus".
     It is a wild, weird, instantly left-field rap masterpiece from one
     seriously bugged-out, innovative loner. Edan, a Boston suburbanite, plays
     the bedroom-geek wunderkind on "One Man Arsenal" who does triple time on
     production, behind the turntables, and rocking the microphone and also
     gives a throwback to b-boy partying like it's 1989. The result is an unholy
     amalgam of decidedly far-out nonconformity, the acute verbal lacerations of
     Rakim, and Kool Keith's untamable flights of fantasy ('Ultra 88' is, in
     fact, a tribute to the Ultramagnetic MC's).
     Like the latter legend, Edan packs a wicked sense of humor and brandishes
     it often with a sometimes barbed but always hilariously nutso outcome (on
     'Emcees Smoke Crack', for instance, he characteristically cops to smoking
     not crack but aluminum). It allows him to facetiously lampoon conventional
     rap pretenses and attitudes even as he wallows in them with obviously
     reverent glee, effectively honoring the genre as a true devotee while
     managing to stand outside it as a commentator.
     It is a line that "Primitive Plus" expertly straddles throughout. Electro
     and 80s street beats knock about with old-school audio snippets, vintage
     samples, and video-game sci-fi backdrops, then collide headlong with
     eclectic pop and rock production techniques, resulting in a rich, layered,
     complex musical undergirding that is electric boogaloo fresh on the one
     hand and extremely forward-looking and path-clearing on the other.
     The album blasts the cobwebs from hip-hop's rusted infrastructure, gives it
     a wax and polish to make in presentable in the present, then promptly rides
     it into the space age. In other words, it simultaneously blazes a trail
     backwards and ahead. Not surprisingly, it took an English label to release
     the album. This is psychedelic hip-hop that can make you dizzy with its
     embarrassment of delights. A message to Beck: Here are your real two
     turntables and a microphone.

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