2005, Ninja Tune
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.
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.
Tracklisting
Disc 1
| 1 | Monday Through Sunday |
| 2 | Bright Lights |
| 3 | Miami/The Jungle |
| 4 | Know Who You Are |
| 5 | Inside the Globe |
| 6 | Best Shit In the World |
| 7 | House of Mirrors |
| 8 | This Year |
| 9 | Now I Lay Me Down |
| 10 | My Eyes |
| 11 | Wings |
| 12 | Paradise |
| 13 | Close Your Eyes |
| 14 | NYC |
| 15 | Trust Me |
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