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Ninja Tune's Hexstatic are best known as VJs--practitioners of a visual mixing technique that blends and segues images in the same manner that DJ mixes records--but on Listen & Learn, they've made a truly clever, and largely entertaining audio mix that blends apparently disparate musical forms into one coherent whole. Listen & Learn is built on a bedrock of old-skool breaks, feel-good hip-hop, and scratch culture, but it's by no means in thrall to the spirit of the Bronx block parties of decades past. Rather, Hexstatic use this funky, flexible base as a springboard into a chaotic sea of garbled electronica, rare groove,
Ninja Tune's Hexstatic are best known as VJs--practitioners of a visual mixing technique that blends and segues images in the same manner that DJ mixes records--but on Listen & Learn, they've made a truly clever, and largely entertaining audio mix that blends apparently disparate musical forms into one coherent whole. Listen & Learn is built on a bedrock of old-skool breaks, feel-good hip-hop, and scratch culture, but it's by no means in thrall to the spirit of the Bronx block parties of decades past. Rather, Hexstatic use this funky, flexible base as a springboard into a chaotic sea of garbled electronica, rare groove, and classic-track bootleg mischief. It's fast-moving: in the space of ten minutes, Hexstatic have dropped a joint of bass-heavy junglism courtesy of DJ Food, lurched into a old-skool scratch lesson narrated by some posh English gentlemen, tarried a while on the mean streets of Grandmaster Flash's "The Message", and segued neatly into the brass-laden hip-shaker of Ike and Tina Turner's "Funky Mule". Elsewhere, there's a neatly tampered take on Boards of Canada's "Aquarius", an oddly beautiful Nightmares on Wax remix of Shirley Bassey, and an indisputable breakbeat classic in the shape of the Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache". --Louis Pattison
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Manufacturer: Ninja Tune
Release date: 27 January 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5021392279121
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