Black Whole Styles

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 16, 1998)
• Original Release Date: June 16, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Big Dada Records
• ASIN: B000007OS0
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #595,368 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The U.K. abstract hip-hop label Ninja Tune has always encouraged the freshest beat forays, and its latest hip-hop-dedicated imprint, Big Dada, is no exception. Boasting a laid-back collection of previously released, exclusive, and remixed underground hip-hop cuts from MCs and DJs/producers on both sides of the Atlantic, familiar names like Luke Vibert (Plug, Wagon Christ), the Runaways, and Saul Williams (who most recently brought his enlightened poetics to the Lyricist Lounge compilation) pop up alongside less-familiar heads like Toastie Tailor and DJ Rumple. Showcasing some of the brighter talents emerging from Big Dada's connection to the U.K. and U.S. underground and incorporating a smattering of ragga and drum & bass influences, Black Whole Styles could give Lyricist Lounge Vol. 1 a run for its money when it comes to capturing creative, independent-minded beats-and-rhymes purveyors. --Stacy Osbaum

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If this is the future, I can live here..., June 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Black Whole Styles (Audio CD)

Surprised that I'm the first to write up a review, but anyway...

This album truly brings something new. It plays out like a soundtrack that's half Alien and half Juice. I can't say much more than that...just don't bring in any pre-conceived notions of what you think it's about; unless you figure that it'll sound like the Left Coast's illest underground MCs dropping gems over Ninja Tune's more rugged futurejazzyturntablism. And look out for Roots Manuva...

5.0 out of 5 stars Creativity at its Best, August 9, 2000

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Kevin Ryan (New York, New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Black Whole Styles (Audio CD)

BlackWholeStyles is tight! If you appreciate lyrics that are poetic, humorous or abstract and production that comes at you from all kinds of musical influences that hit the mind and all the senses, then this is the album for you. Misanthropic, Feel Da Panic, Uranium 235 and Saul Williams' Elohim (1972) mix the products and the rhymes with ill precision.