Epinions Recent Reviews for e-kleptic

Something For The Blunted

Sun, 2 Feb 2003 17:08:06 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - [This review refers to the sixteen-track sampler on 2LP vinyl - the version on CD has forty-five tracks]

The story goes like this - reggae label Trojan sends Madlib the bulk of their catalog to have him mix together a selection of his...

A Mass Of Jazz

Thu, 19 Dec 2002 03:31:06 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - The meeting of jazz and electronic music was a natural inevitable one like two genres coming full orbit from the same source of creativity. Both forms of music sustain a sense of mood and atmosphere featuring musical structures vastly different from the...

Straight Out'er Birmingham

Sun, 24 Nov 2002 11:30:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - Mike Skinner has many things working against him. First of all, Skinner is a white "MC"/producer from Birmingham, England which means you won't find him anytime soon on DJ Clue's next mixtape. Of course, the United Kingdom has given us Slick Rick and...

Major Performers In Rock And Pop Music: Angled Perspective : The Third Degree Hip-Hop Write Off

Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:02:06 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - R.I.P. Jam Master Jay

Q: HIP-HOP TO YOU?

Bear with me here. Hip-hop to me, is like a thin beam of light. And we kind of act like a prism in that we take this focused beam of energy and we fracture it into a million...

Post-Apocalyptic Spit

Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:18:42 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - Forget the Parental Advisory sticker - El-P's debut solo-outing "Fantastic Damage" needs to come strapped with a first aid kit and a pistol - depending on which way you

lean by the end of the album. Either way, you'll leave "Fantastic Damage"...

A Cure For The Itch

Tue, 15 Oct 2002 02:25:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - From a hip-hop lover's perspective, Scratch is both exhilirating and heartbreaking at the same time. The exhiliration comes from the fact that Scratch is indeed a brilliant documentary that covers most of the bases - celebrating the energy and creativity...

Transmitting Live From The Soul

Mon, 14 Oct 2002 03:28:34 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - "Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost

One can only speculate on what path hip-hop might have taken if "Three Feet High And Rising" had captured the...

Queen Of The Domain

Wed, 11 Sep 2002 01:12:35 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - Jean Grae has superpowers. But not the kind of telepathic superpowers that you'll find on the X-Woman mutant from which she borrowed her moniker. Jean Grae has rhyming superpowers - a true MC, if you will - but like Batgirl, Wonder Woman, and...

Astro Excursions

Thu, 25 Jul 2002 16:56:26 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - Imagine this scenario: an alien lands on Earth in order to gain insight into how humans think and operate. On his way to find the diplomatic world leader, the alien takes a wrong turn and somehow wanders into a pot-smoking session with a group of...

Hip-Hop's Inner Wild Child

Fri, 17 May 2002 05:45:07 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - The Neptunes are pop's village bicycle. Everyone has had a ride from Britney Spears and the Backstreet Boys to Limp Bizkit and Jay-Z - and one's first assumption might be that anyone listening to the newly revamped "In Search Of..." risks the danger of...

Party Manifesto

Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:48:08 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - It happened with the music video for Public Enemy's "By The Time I Get Back To Arizona" and it happened again with Ice-T's "Cop Killer" - a quick glimpse at the landscape of hip-hop's dynamic timeline reveals that artists have long been under the...

Cold New World

Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:45:57 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - Rappers often talk about representing their city of origin, but Cannibal Ox is perhaps one of the few and rare groups that actually sound like it. Because if there was to be a soundtrack to the cold gloomy urban landscapes of New York, "Cold Vein" would...

Nocturnal Musings

Fri, 7 Dec 2001 15:11:00 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - For some reason, every single Bjork album just seems like a naturally logical creative extension. From the conventional dance album "Debut" to the more eclectic electronica candyshop "Post", and then the baroque industrial-styled confrontations of...

Passes To Paradise

Wed, 5 Dec 2001 19:22:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author e-kleptic - An export from Down Under soon to overtake Fosters beer is the upcoming musical collective The Avalanches. As a six-man group, the Avalanches take their cue from cut-and-paste guru DJ Shadow, creating colorful sample collages willfully rough around...