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EDAN - Beauty And The Beat

EDAN - Beauty And The Beat
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CD // £12.99
HIP HOP
Released: Mar 2005
Catalogue Number: LEWIS007CD
Estimated time of shipping: 1-3 days

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With 'Beauty and The Beat' Edan joins a very select bunch of hip hop mavericks who have managed to improve on their burning debuts by building on the formula that made them great in the first place without getting lost in the process - a claim you could throw at far too many dissapointing second album scenarios through hip hop's short history. The intro to this wondrous album scratches up echoic slide guitar add beyond dusted drums, adding several sampled voices demanding you to "LISTEN!!!" backed up hard style by "Listen Up' from 'Coast To Coast' the underrated 86 teeth rattler by Word Of Mouth. All the tracks from the previous two warm up 12"s ('I See Colours' and 'Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme') feature and they still sound like real dope sh*t. Of the new tracks 'Funky Voltron' brings Insight on board for a psyched J.B.'s styled track with real crazy and whacked out droplets of herbatious growth made all the better with sweet old school child singing samples appearing in the mix. 'Murder Mystery' is a killer mellow death rap track reeking of seventies slasher thrillers blending baad style into 'Torture Chamber' blown up by the man Percee-P on the guest rap - awesome manic fast rap that'll demand you body pop till you drop. 'Making Partners' features Edan's other best Boston mate Mr.Lif floating out on a voyage through the psychedelic hip hop cosmos, feel the vibrations - tune! 'Rock and Roll' is the heaviest sh*t on board, hard rhymes over creeping feedback and funky rock drums skuzzed up mightily, Insight's man Dagha supplies the incendary guest lyrics. Finally 'Smile' calls upon the spirit ghost of Jimi Hendrix to tell a deeply personal story and 'Promised Land' features the most mind mangling acidtrip influenced lyrics on this set and vocal samples from the incredible Isreali 70's folk singer Arik Einstein - Edan sure digs it deep style. Only slight downers are the old school running length 34 minutes (strictly no flab then) and where is the us pressed vinyl edition? Oh well never mind this will still be freaking with the best come my year end chart. What a year for brilliant music this is turning out to be - long may it continue. Essential.

• Tracks on EDAN - Beauty And The Beat:
• EDAN : Torture Chamber
• EDAN : Science Of Two
• EDAN : Fumbling Over

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