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MH-223 Thavius Beck - Decomposition  The sprawling arrangements on Thavius Beck's Mush debut, Decomposition burrow into the listeners brain with a mix of melodic samples, chopped breaks, pulsating synths, and head-swirling delay, then morph into genre-bending sound paintings adorned with hallucinogenic vocal samples. Four vocal tracks, "Open Your F*@!ing Eyes" (featuring vocals by Thavius Beck himself), "June Gloom" (vocals by Subtitle), "Amongst the Shadows" (vocals by Cedric Bixler-Zavala of Mars Volta), and "Demons of Destruction" (vocals by Longevity of Darkleaf) find homes among instrumental tracks that are as densely layered and expertly crafted as is found in modern electronic music. Decomposition is a work worthy of extended headphone listening. |
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| Should pin you by the very first track - Urb / Heady and intense throughout - Metro.Pop / You can't stop listening - Pop Matters / A must have for hip-hop fans who see a future for the genre beyond the dancefloor - San Francisco Examiner / Close your eyes, swallow, and get to know true enlightenment - Absorb |
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| After making music within the underground hip-hop continuum - as Adlib and also with Global Phlowtations - composer/producer Thavius Beck goes deeper and further under stone and silt in which to create a mutant strain of volcanic electronic music. His deeply furrowed voice is a choice counterpart to his bubbling ugly beats, buzzing ambience and cinematic melodies (check the jungle pulsed "What Lurks in the Darkness..." and tell me it doesn't sound like a scarier version of Eminem's "Lose Yourself"). On the timpani-toppled hip-hop of "Open Your F*@!ing Eyes" Beck compares the complexities of analog-to-digital organics and mechanism to the psychological scar of "divinity and insanity." That same dispassionate hunger feeds into the dour, post-new wave feel of "The Inevitable... Is," and "June Gloom." The two songs create an oddly 80's ideal that pays off weirdly on "(Music Will Be) The Death of Us All" Here, Beck blankly lists the blandest of acts (Huey Lewis!) to a Teutonic hop groove. He's as deadly as he is deadpan, effortlessly describing, on a few songs, the feel of an entire era. Now that's scary. - BPM |
2XLP/Out Of Print