STR8 CROOKED by MADTEO
SKU | 119975 |
Artist | MADTEO |
Title | STR8 CROOKED |
Label | HONEST JONS RECORDS |
Catalog # | HJP 095 |
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Release | W 38 - 2021 |
Format | Vinyl - UK12'' |
€ 13,99 | incl. VAT, excl. shipping |
Description
Three dazzling re-routings of Detroit machine funk into deep mid-Atlantic co-minglings with raw, old-school hiphop and house.
Str8 Crooked is clattering, chugging jack, holding something like Paisley soul under the water; Build Back Better Sweatshops is more driving, riven with breakdowns and horror-show vocal samples. With an uptempo downbeat which nonetheless sounds like a tolling bell, the epic, immersive, sixteen-minutes-plus Episcopi Vagantes pulls off the deadly combination of a kind of stifled, timeworn, melodic wistfulness and percussively restless, passing-through urgency.
This is killer dance music, run through with swingeing, parping bass and ruff b-boy drum-machine rhythms: encrusted and detailed, mangled and nervy, but intensely hard-grooving; wired with punk insouciance, edginess, and free spirit.