WINDMILLS: As Above, So Below – 2011
HIGHLIGHTS:
SOUNDBITE: “Dude come and get it/ You want hip-hop the way that it was/ Then it’d be more fun to hang around instead of killing my buzz/ It’s Windmills motherfucker and we’re happy you came/ Do I expect those to front? That's the way I was raised”
RATING: 5/5
Californian producer Rex Rey has been lurking in the wings of leftfield hip-hop for a long minute now and his Windmills hip-hop/ psychedelia crossover project with Vermont emcee Framework is his most ambitious yet. While the finished LP might be leftfield hip-hop however, it’s far from being leftfield music for it has a deceptively pop sensibility throughout. The closest point of hip-hop reference is probably Edan’s Beauty And The Beat from 2005 but if Edan is Hendrix, Windmills is Love or the Byrds – it’s mellower and more…READ FULL POST @ MONKEYBOXING.COM
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