VA-Anticon Label Sampler 1999 – 2004-CD-FLAC-2004-THEVOiD

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 Info   
     Artist  | VA
     Title   | Anticon Label Sampler: 1999 - 2004
     Genre   | Hip-Hop                              Format  | Album (CD)
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 79:11
     Label   | Anticon                              Store   | 2004
     Catalog | abr0031cd                            Rip     | 2022-02-13
     Bitrate | 812  kbps                            Size    | 485.54 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     01. Unknown Artist - Hello                                      0:18
     02. Why? - Cold Lunch                                           1:14
     03. Themselves - Dark Sky Demo                                  2:34
     04. Alias - Watching Water                                      2:24
     05. Sole - Shoot The Messenger                                  2:14
     06. Passage - The Unstrung Harp                                 1:49
     07. Pedestrian - The Toss & Turn                                3:23
     08. Deep Puddle Dynamics - D. Mothers of Invention              2:34
     09. Controller 7 - Bunny Slippers                               0:50
     10. Odd Nosdam - Wig 21                                         2:19
     11. Themselves - Poison Pit                                     2:06
     12. Why? - Hahaha / On My 19th                                  2:51
     13. Sole - Bottle Of Humans                                     2:44
     14. Alias - Divine Disappointment                               3:37
     15. Themselves - It's Them                                      3:21
     16. Pity Party People - Interlude                               0:19
     17. Odd Nosdam - Eat: Chew                                      1:30
     18. Passage - Poem To The Hospital                              2:09
     19. Pedestrian - Jane 2: Electric Boogaloo                      2:24
     20. Alias - Pill Hiding                                         2:13
     21. Sole - Salt On Everything                                   2:17
     22. Why? - Bad Entropy                                          1:21
     23. Odd Nosdam - Wig 12                                         2:00
     24. Sage Francis - Crack Pipes                                  1:56
     25. Alias - Sixes Last                                          1:38
     26. Alias - Dec. 26th, 2002                                     2:43
     27. Themselves - Good People Check (hrvatski remix)             3:18
     28. Restiform Bodies - Sippy Cup                                2:29
     29. Why? - Darla                                                2:55
     30. Dosh - Steve The Cat                                        4:13
     31. Alias w/ Markus Acher - Unseen Sights                       4:25
     32. Sole - Dumb This Down                                       3:13
     33. Jel - Nice Last                                             3:50
 Notes  
     When discussing the Bay Area hip hop collective Anticon, it's easy to find
     yourself buried underneath a mess of race issues. The guys in the Anticon
     collective are white, and they had the nerve to call a compilation of
     theirs Music For The Advancement Of Hip Hop. The blessing and curse of a
     title like that it will cause some people to take you really, really
     seriously, and if those people are also mostly white, well...
     For that reason, there a lot of people that love Anticon and think they've
     revolutionized hip hop; there are at least as many who think their music is
     art-school trash, not 'real' hip-hop. The irony of all this is that on
     record, Anticon are generally less prone to self-aggrandizement than most
     MCs. Whatever the case, though, lots of people who talk about Anticon don't
     exactly do so with an open mind.
     Does their Music Advance Hip Hop? Sure, I guess, but thousands of artists
     have helped hip hop evolve. For a collective that makes hip hop that a
     relatively large number of people hear, "Music For The Advancement Of Hip
     Hop" isn't even a terribly bold claim, unless that collective is artsy and
     white. Is Anticon revolutionary? Are its members the best thing ever to
     happen to hip hop? No way on both counts, but Anticon is deserving of
     praise, even if it's not the over-the-top adulation it often gets from the
     converted.
     Anticon's chief contributions to the Advancement Of Hip Hop are threefold:
     the nasal qualities of their voices, their approach to rhythm and the
     self-examining and surreal contents of their rhymes. If MCing typically
     resembles real-life speech, Anticon MCing typically resembles an alarm
     clock - it's mechanistic beeping in which forcefulness and consistency
     trample inflection. This approach often frees MCs like Doseone to sing
     their lines in pitch. It's still rapping because they don't sing
     melodically, really; they spit out a million syllables in the same pitch
     above one chord, then change pitches when the chord changes and spit a
     million syllables again. It can be very catchy, even though it's
     (presumably) far removed from the way they talk.
     About those million syllables: the way they're arranged in space has very
     little to do with most hip hop. The usual Anticon approach to rhythm does
     have a precedent in (weirdly enough) Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, but it also has
     a lot more in common with drum and bass than with most of today's hip hop.
     Anticon MCs like Alias and Passage often go quadruple-time nuts in
     irregular patterns over slow, steady beats, much like the snare drum sounds
     in drum-n-bass do.
     Anticon's lyrical approach has been described as "shrink rap," and they're
     often every bit as self-reflective as that name implies. But theirs isn't
     the repetitive, clueless self-reflection of high school poetry. Rather,
     Anticon MCs deal in dreamlike and semi-intelligible ruminations on aging,
     sex, nostalgia and their relationships to their surroundings. They're not
     above jokes, but they usually don't attack others, focusing instead on
     surreal situations and weird puns.
     These qualities are all present in abundance on the Anticon Label Sampler,
     a budget-priced collection of tracks by all the Anticon members, as well as
     friends like Controller 7, Sage Francis and Hrvatski. The album gets
     weirder and bolder as it goes along, reaching its peak with Why?'s "Darla,"
     which sounds like the best indie-pop song the Elephant 6 collective never
     made, and Sole's excellent political rant "Dumb This Down."
     Anticon's Odd Nosdam mixed the 33 (!) tracks here to sound continuous. His
     decision to include so many tracks was overambitious, and he's forced to
     chop some into tantalizing snippets. His mixing isn't anything special, so
     Anticon would have been better off including fewer tracks and presenting
     them in completed form. Other than that, the Label Sampler is a fine
     introduction to Anticon.
     -dustedmagazine

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