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A8018 Sunn tha Sarkastic / Polyphonic the Verbose / Flesh O.N.E. / AM Overtone Prostitute Karaoke 2007 Digital Release |
Available on vinyl here.
In 2004 Prostitute Karaoke Volume 1 was released only on vinyl and essentially never heard outside of a small group of DJs. The full length CD that was to follow never happened, and now two years later, remastered and with bonus material the album is available as a digital release. An idiosyncratic and moody album, Prostitute Karaoke is at times obtuse and frusterated, prone to angry didactic raps, paranoid political samples and disconcerting glitches and static. The song Underdog says it all, this is hip hop "against the grain", and not everyone will appreciate these explorers' skills or temperaments.
The fantastically precise scratched soundscapes of Flesh O.N.E. (whose turntablism ingenuity was hailed by XLR8R as "evil genius") explores new depths in tracks like Line After Line, which begins straightforwardly but journeys elsewhere, propelled through Polyphonic the Verbose's production that Popmatters called "a dreamscape of noise, where warehouse glitch and hip-hop bounce exist peacefully." Despite the experimentation, Sunn tha Sarcastic shows he can rip a mic to shreds on tracks like I Politic, and the quartet is rounded out by video artist AM Overtone's unearthly flute and reed improvisations.
:::: Track Listing
1 Space Beat
2 Underdog
3 Enter the Pimp pt. 1
4 Enter the Pimp pt. 2
5 Master of the Universe
6 Prostitute Karaoke
7 Shadow of the Empire
8 Line After Line
9 Neighbor (featuring Nico B)
10 Messian
11 20,000 Leagues
12 IQ Tactics
13 Harp Interlude
14 I Politic
15 In the Future