Kakusei
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As his hip-hop contemporary DJ Shadow burst out with all guns blazing on UNKLE's sprawling Psyence Fiction project, Japanese auteur Krush claimed the blunter, more obtuse side of trip-hop as his own on his 1998 solo album, Kakusei. Krush's compositions hark back, in basic structure, to the spun-out jazz of Mo' Wax's Headz compilations, but Kakusei evades such slick comparisons. "Inorganizm", for instance, invites DJ Kensei and DJ Hide--a pair of underground Japanese soundscapers--to tinker with Krush's locked grooves. Swathed in a skittering atonal hum, it's too icy to chill out to and too fearfully sparse to inspire a
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Manufacturer: Columbia
Release date: 15 February 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099749289321 UPC: 5099749289321
Release date: 15 February 1999
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5099749289321 UPC: 5099749289321
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