Boom Bip
, a Cincinnati producer/DJ (roughly in that order), comes from a long line of twisted
hip-hop
mentalists, stretching from
Biz Markie
to
Company Flow
Kid Koala
. And listeners expecting something special from an unknown granted a licensing to the quality-control experts at
Warp
won't be disappointed by
Seed to Sun
; it's
experimental
being done on a level reached by few producers out there. More
, rangier, and lighter than any
Co-Flow
material, but more producer-driven than
's records, the album encompasses analog
electronics
, beat-heavy
experimental techno
,
turntablist
scratching, and dozens of mostly unrecognizable samples (one strain that briefly emerges from the soup:
B.J. Thomas
'
"Everybody's Out of Town"
). Surprisingly,
is also very melodic, audible even when
layers dense beats and samples over his tracks, as on
"Closed Shoulders."
For
"The Unthinkable,"
one of the few vocal tracks, guest
Buck 65
comes off like a countrified rapper produced by
El-P
. The other top-notch vocal comes from
Dose One
(from
Anticon
), prefacing a
Cypress Hill
-goes-
pop
chorus on
"Mannequin Hand Trapdoor I Reminder"
with some paranoid musings. Nothing against
; he's a great producer, and deserves most of the hype he's gotten. It's just that
does what he does so much better. ~ John Bush