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And Now the Legacy Begins Dream Warriors Although the Dream Warriors' debut was released in 1991--the same year as De La Soul Is Dead and Definition of Sound's Love & Life--the album never received proper recognition. Mixing together jazz (the first song is "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style," which out-loops anything Us3 ever did) and pop, crossing De La's "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" sensibilities with P.M. Dawn's summery touch,...    Read More >>

Mach 6 MC Solaar Senegal-born MC Solaar, the million-selling French-language rapper, continues to channel hip-hop through his own vibrant cultural experience with Mach 6. Steeped in silky acoustic jazz texture, native African instrumentation, and elegant orchestral strings supplied by the Moscow Orchestra, the album offers a take on hip-hop that, next to the casual violence common to the US urban landscape,...    Read More >>

X Raisons: Da Stand Out Version Saian Supa Crew Saian Supa Crew have got to be one of the finest hip hop outfits on the planet. Insane flows, brilliant ragga-fuelled beats and superb, inventive beatboxing all combine to make them a world class act. This "International Version" of their second album, X-Raisons, contains the biggest hits off the album, plus some excellent collaborations with International artists such as Roots Manuva and Kymani Marley....    Read More >>

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Kid Koala The debut LP from the formidable scratching DJ, Kid Koala fulfils the fevered critical and public response that greeted his "live" sets and remixes/collaborations with Money Mark, DJ Vadim and Handsome Boy Modelling School. Koala describes his LP as having been "hand-cut": this is music that was made by manipulating his vinyl and record decks--much of it in real-time. A radical approach but Koala is...    Read More >>

Prose Combat MC Solaar Probably one of the best hip-hop albums of all time, up there with Step in the Arena as an exponent of funky, lyrical jazz-tinged hip-hop. Jimmy Jay's lush, sun-drenched soundtrack is an amalgam of warm horns, jazz guitar, funk bass and some serious bottom-wiggling, foot-tapping breakbeats. MC Solaar never equalled the lyrical density and flows like there's no tomorrow. He goes from the bitter-sweet...    Read More >>

KLR Saian Supa Crew It seems like such a natural progression for French hip-hop to take off--after all, there's only so many MCs out there with anything original to say or a novel way of saying it, so the flow of the rapper's patter is easily as important as what they're rapping about. French, with its cultivated smoothness, sounds beautiful and naturally flows from thought to thought; chanted over beats, the effect can...    Read More >>

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Qui Seme Le Vent Recolte Le Tempo MC Solaar I've been a fan of MC Solaar's for quite some time now, and have had this album a good 10 years, but I came back to it recently and felt I had to review it. The skills shown on this album make you wonder where everything changed for Claude MC, his fast pace, humour, intellect and just all good sound made him a target for hardcore rappers, as they felt his sound was too soft. Well maybe they should...    Read More >>

Cinquieme As Mc Solaar Cinquieme As is the fifth album by the former footballer turned rapper from Villeneuve St George, MC Solaar. While thanks to Daft Punk, Modjo and Air, French music has finally made it's mark on charts across the globe, French rap still remains near impossible to export. Except, that is, for MC Solaar. Since the release of his 1991 debut album, Qui Sème Le Vent Récolte Le Tempo, he has...    Read More >>