On its second album, the Rockers Hi-Fi crew continues its musical exploration of the dark borderlands that separate hip-hop, trip-hop, reggae, dub, and electronica. With its sometimes nebulous chord changes, casual rhythms, and murky textures, this is music that is constantly in danger of bogging down, and it sometimes does -- good luck getting all the way through the skull-numbing "Mish Mash Episode 2" (even at a mercifully brief two minutes) or the very aptly titled "Going Under." But when the energy picks up just a ...
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On its second album, the Rockers Hi-Fi crew continues its musical exploration of the dark borderlands that separate hip-hop, trip-hop, reggae, dub, and electronica. With its sometimes nebulous chord changes, casual rhythms, and murky textures, this is music that is constantly in danger of bogging down, and it sometimes does -- good luck getting all the way through the skull-numbing "Mish Mash Episode 2" (even at a mercifully brief two minutes) or the very aptly titled "Going Under." But when the energy picks up just a little and the groove kicks in just right, the results are quietly spectacular: "One With Another" combines samples from a sermon with faint and eerie synthesizer washes and an intermittently complex house beat; "Uneasy Skanking" is exactly what it says it is, a dead-slow one-drop reggae groove overlaid on a faintly queasy chord progression; "Fling Mi Ting" makes offhand reference to jungle while focusing your attention on a loose, dubwise funk groove. The album's real highlights are the singing and rapping interludes provided by Phoebe Esprit, whose "Now I Deliver" is an exquisite fusion of reggae and hip-hop, and who puts her own personal stamp on the Clash's "Ghetto Defendant" with "Queen of the Ghetto." Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi
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