Artistically, Paul White has had a fantastic 2009. Following up this full length debut with an EP and another mini album, he has been prolific and consistently great.
This album appeared in June 2009 and has definitely turned into one of my albums of the year. Featuring a plethora of weird beats, snatches of dialogue and enough psychedelic sampling to make your head explode, this is so great because it manages to avoid all of the macho posturing and lazy braggadocio that make most of hip-hop just about unlistenable to me these days.
Paul White has risen to claim status as one of the UK's finest beat breakers and psyched instro-hip-hop producers. White's idiosyncratic and rarified touch has lent his productions an intriguing personality. His day job as a library producer for Channel 4 and the BBC goes some way to explain the assortment of wonderfully disjointed samples and radiophonic ephemera that form much of the base material for the album, with a carefree and light fingered attitude towards plucking his sonic touchstones from their sources. This dilated scope and the hazy dream-like qualities of the results have lead to apt comparisons with both the RZA and Boards Of Canada, with a rugged beat driven aesthetic offset by rich sound designs and a psychedelically tipsy agenda.I was lucky enough to get one of the 500 copies which were released in a hand sewn, quilted sleeve. And if you like this, I suggest you seek out his other stuff because it's all fantastic.
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