So I was hanging out and digging through some hip-hop record bins at local record shop yesterday (while downing beers with the owner) and found a dusty Edan EP lodged between a grip of random 12"s. I nerded-out for a minute, and wondered why I had totally forgotten about my favorite nasally nerd rapper (after MF Doom, of course) from Boston. (The last time I heard from him was the summer of '06 with his appearance on Cut Chemist's The Audience's Listening.) I think dudes like this are so refreshing with the DIY recorded-in-my-dorm approach, and it's not easy to meld "out-there" psych rock, rare groove, loop-friendly jazz riffs and early 80s rap samples together nicely. Some may criticize his over-aestheticizing or constant referencing, but his music is underpinned by a marked originality that forces listeners to see past this. I highly suggest you check out his entire catalogue for some serious summer boombox bumps."Syllable Practice (12" version)" - from his first LP Primitive Plus (2002; Lewis)
"The trilogy of talk: tongues, lungs and diaphragms / pentriloquist with venomous Venn diagrams."
Imagine any other rapper rapping about Venn diagrams?
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