Visionary experimental NYC electro/hip-hop. The futuristic, vocoder-driven, downtempo electro-funk of "New Meaning" sets the stage for an absolute head-trip of an album that exists solely on the outer fringes, and remains in a class of its own almost two decades on. In terms of accessibility, The Rammellzee (who passed in 2010) makes contemporaries like Antipop Consortium sound like top 10 fodder.
Track listing:
1. New Meaning
2. Here We Go
3. Look at That Girl
4. Soldiers
5. Sign Your Names as Thee
6. My Horizon
7. In the Back of the Caddy Shack
8. This Is What You Made Me
9. I Be Ramm-Ell-Zee-Zee
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THANK YOU! His shit is impossible to find.
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ReplyDeleteHot damn what a post DS!!!! I haven't had a copy of this in years. You're a wizard a man of culture a musical polymath the best blogger in any cosmos the ceo of saving of us from the waking-state of 24/7 shit and so on.
ReplyDeleteAmazing post! Rammellzee is often overlooked maybe due to his records are obscure ,short run pressings etc. Im very familiar with his art damaged take on hip hop, true old school underground legend. Beat Bop is still great almost 40 years since it was released (I heard it on the Profile Records compilation RAP 1 or RAP 2",I liked the songs he did with Material/Bill Laswell and the legendary concert at the end of Wild Style. His records/songs repesent a side of early NYC hiphop that was kinda phased out after Run DMC ,some of the Celluoid Records catalog fits well with Rammellzee's vison. I just found out about DEATH COMET CREW during some deep dive while on lockdown.
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