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All City Records have become a force to be reckoned with, counting Mike Slott, Hud Mo, Onra and Fulgeance among their roll call of on-it producers. Their recently completed 7×7 series was a joy to uncover, with each installment unwrapped and digested with much glee around these parts. This digital version collects the entire series into one absolutely killer listen for any self respecting hiphop nuts. The highlights are many, including Mike Slott’s psyched head nodder ‘Knock Knock’ and electrosoul nugget ‘My Lightbridge’, next to Fulgeance’s party joint ‘Revenge Of The Nerds’ and two wildly abstract and synth driven sound designs from Rush Hour’s Mweslee. It’s left to Hudson Mohawke,however, to steal the show with ‘Star Crackout’, a completely unexpected but entirely welcome Paavoharju style melodic delicacy sitting next to ‘Root Hands’, a stupendous slice of slow house abstraction that’s almost worth the entry fee alone. Finally two shining lights of the nu-skool instrumental hip hop scene provide some of their finest recent material with Onra’s buttered electrosoul bomb ‘My Comet’ and Dimlite’s brand new ‘Quiz Tears’ tacked on the end to leave a very odd taste in your ears that’ll guarantee you come back for more. Any heads feeling Flying Lotus, Rustie or Dorian Concept should jump on this without fail.
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MP3:Fulgeance – Revenge Of The Nerds
1. SNOWMAN : Street Corner Music
2. SNOWMAN : Rise
3. MIKE SLOTT : Knock Knock
4. MIKE SLOTT : My Lightbridge
5. FULGEANCE : Revenge of the Nerd
6. FULGEANCE : Mamie The
7. MWESLEE : Chandal 500
8. MWESLEE : Jamas Jame Jamon
9. LE N?KO : Akedam
10. LE N?KO : Apprendre
11. HUDSON MOHAWKE : Star Crackout
12. HUDSON MOHAWKE : Root Hands
13. HUDSON MOHAWKE : Everybody Else Is Wrong
14. ONRA : My Comet
15. ONRA : Shhhhh
16. DIMLITE : Quiz Tears
Artist:Various Artists
Album:7×7 BEAT
Label:All City
Release:2009
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