- Hip-hop
- Rap
- Ethnotronica
- Urban music
- Avant-hop
- Sampledelic
- Industrial-hop
- World music
Comment: this 4-track issue by the French-based hip-hop
artist Etiket Zero is a fascinating one because of providing a coherent bound
of rhythms, ill-omened gauze and overdriving effects. Those rhythms are
craftily produced to vary in their appearance from slightly sprawling
noise-fuelled synth basses to smithereens exploded thumps. Furthermore, the
artist used to sample ethnic instruments (tabla, tanpura) and flutes, down-beaten
paces and the African people`s singing at _Planet_N_YAK.412.
Indeed, this quite long-running composition is very interesting because of
involving a shitloads of unexpected turns and dodges. The track is the
exception within the whole issue. All these lyrics are chanted in English
having no penchant toward such simplistic topics as women, money and cars in a
vulgar way. For instance, at
_Planet_N_AYK.599_Feat._Guttahface the artist ushers the listener in a more
lone and lovelorn way. Musically with the excursion of the first mentioned
track there can be drawn parallels with the elegantly squelching and cracked aesthetic
of Death Grips who had been making first steps to conquer the world at the time
of the release of this issue. However, it was not Etiket Zero`s first album
where the artist experimented with such experimental narratives. Additionally I
recommend listen to an album called Album
La Paix (2008) where the artist had glided along abstract soundscapes,
however, noises and ethnic motives were represented either. All in all, it is a
bewildering stuff where tension and intensity in sound and on the other side
those mind-boggling sonorous crumbs and harnessed to conjure up outstanding
incantations for our pleasure. It is an ideal template of hip-hop music.