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HDB 070EP
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"Chicago Footwork don DJ Rashad releases his Hyperdub debut and these four tracks show him at his unpredictable best."
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HDB 068EP
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"'Sunlight On The Faded' is energized and geometric, with lush chords built around hard, sparse drums and Laurel's harmonized vocals. Choked samples and illusory FX support the vocal phrases, the lyrics hinting at a resolution from the pain of the album's themes, and a hopefulness too."
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HDB 069CD
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"An epic 25 minute two-track EP."
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HDB 064EP
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"Morgan Zarate's second release for Hyperdub is a bold and unexpected move for him. With Broken Heart Collector he's made some highly contagious dubstep pop, featuring rising singer/songwriter/producer Stevie Neale on vocals."
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HDB 016LP
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HDB 016CD
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"Terror Danjah's second Hyperdub album is The Dark Crawler, a well-paced and much more upfront and energetic journey through his musical world than his debut Undeniable. The album revolves around the 'Dark Crawler' theme, a blistering grime track that pops up several times, vocaled by MC's Riko Dan, Mayhem, Deadly and Saf One, and then lastly Trim and Kossie. It's a much more contained body of work, paced to keep the listeners interest. From the 'Dark Crawler' intro into the cartoonish horror soundtrack of 'Mirror's Edge,' which tricks you into thinking its just any dubstep tune, before scattering into Terror's signature broken kicks and claps."
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HDB 015LP
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Double LP version. "Sebenza shares a palette of sounds, but each track stretches those sources into different templates, each custom built with the MC's flow and topic in mind, slowed down and sped up where needed. The three MC's styles differ from each other dramatically. Okmalumkoolkat shifts schizophrenically through different characters; he's an Afro-futurist tech nerd on 'Zulu Compurar,' a wired gangster on 'International Pansula,' and on 'Spitting Cobra,' a shape shifting bad man. Ruffest mix shout outs to the thugs on 'Hustla,' boast their uniqueness on 'Nothing Like Us,' bring the party on 'Thatha' and get love sick on 'Uthando Lwakho.' On 'Limb' Spoek Mathambo's rhymes dissolve into the rhythm like a holographic James Brown, while 'Work' answers Okmalumkoolkat's 'Sebenza' with instructional cheer-leading over clicking beats. Sebenza is a joyful listen, refreshing in its disregard for musical and verbal cliché. It brings to attention a handful of the awesome talent of South Africa's young generation of MCs over the finest productions of South London."
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HDB 015CD
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"Sebenza shares a palette of sounds, but each track stretches those sources into different templates, each custom built with the MC's flow and topic in mind, slowed down and sped up where needed. The three MC's styles differ from each other dramatically. Okmalumkoolkat shifts schizophrenically through different characters; he's an Afro-futurist tech nerd on 'Zulu Compurar,' a wired gangster on 'International Pansula,' and on 'Spitting Cobra,' a shape shifting bad man. Ruffest mix shout outs to the thugs on 'Hustla,' boast their uniqueness on 'Nothing Like Us,' bring the party on 'Thatha' and get love sick on 'Uthando Lwakho.' On 'Limb' Spoek Mathambo's rhymes dissolve into the rhythm like a holographic James Brown, while 'Work' answers Okmalumkoolkat's 'Sebenza' with instructional cheer-leading over clicking beats. Sebenza is a joyful listen, refreshing in its disregard for musical and verbal cliché. It brings to attention a handful of the awesome talent of South Africa's young generation of MCs over the finest productions of South London."
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HDB 065EP
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"As a prelude to his second album for Hyperdub, 'Dark Crawler' sees Terror Danjah drop punchy, manic beats and claustrophobic stabs on this bloodthirsty grime banger, with grime's original London Warlord Riko Dan spitting patois menace of the kind that might make MI5 raise their terrorist threat levels. On the B side is the bubbler 'Fruit Punch', Terror's energetic, 8bar take on funky, which - by contrast - adds some fun to the militant proceedings. With a tight, rolling drum tattoo tearing across the mix, and a tropical melody sharing space with a bulldozer of sub-bass, it's a case of opposites attract."
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HDB 008LP
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