Good Fortune

Ninja Tune triumphantly announces the release of Airborn Audio's debut LP Good Fortune. The result of two years of work by former Antipop Consortium members High Priest and M Sayyid, Good Fortune further explores that group's tendencies while advancing new territories for avant-hip-hop.

For this enigmatic duo, biographical information has always seemed a needless clutter given the singularity of their music. Good Fortune is a serious, unabashed, and self-aware, yet non self-conscious masterwork. This is a physical music that feels disjointed, yet hyper-connected by insisting on the absence of boundaries rather than making aims to blur them. M Sayyid and High Priest plunge headlong into competing reference points and clashing styles, mining both high-brow poetic tantrums and ecstatically obtuse jingles -- what emerges is a sequence of pan-cultural aphorisms that sound something like the happy bastard of Sun Ra, Luc Ferrari era-musique concrete, and Moondog freestyling on an acid-fueled bender.