Boom Bip, a Cincinnati producer/DJ (roughly in that order), comes from a long line of twisted hip-hop mentalists, stretching from Biz Markie to Company Flow to Kid Koala. And listeners expecting something special from an unknown granted a licensing to the quality-control experts at Warp won't be disappointed by Seed to Sun; it's experimental hip-hop being done on a level reached by few producers out there. More experimental, rangier, and lighter than any Co-Flow material, b...   [ read more ]

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'Before Clouddead hopped the Atlantic to hit Will Ashton's respected Big Dada imprint, Cloud's Dose and DJ/producer Boom reached critical mass at San Francisco's Mush in 2000, with this re-release through the influential Leaf label receiving a rapturous response two years later. Loaded with 29 tracks, each containing literally reams of thoughts, there is an awful lot to take in, but the experience proves well-worth the investment, with Circle's renunciation of traditional {hip-hop} in favor of a collation ...   [ read more ]

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An 11-track disc of new material, Peel Sessions, and remixes by Boards of Canada, Mogwai, Four Tet, Venetian Snares, Clouddead, and Lali Puna. Boom Bip's 2002 album "Seed To Sun" was a perfect exploration of the area between left-field hip-hop and what we've come to know as "electronica." This collection, with its varied remixes and points of reference, fills in some of the blanks, and throws in elements of post-rock for good measure.

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