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***Live Human occupy a unique space in the genres of both free improv jazz and hip hop. Albert Mathais and Andrew Kushtin are both former members of improv jazz collectives, while DJ Quest, a member of Battle DJ collectives, the Space Travelers and the Bulletproof Scratch Hamsters, fleshes out their live beats'n'bass with spontaneous and stunning sleights of wrist. For Live Human, no instrument is subordinate to any other. Their live sampling draws freely from their own compositions as vinyl source material is chopped around and transformed, pushed and pulled to form a mad, spliced up flow. Following the successes of their first Fat Cat 12-inch and live UK dates, the hip hop / improv trio returns with its second album-their first to fully incorporate studio tricknology. Samples and overdubs augment the band's live drums / double bass / turntable improv; throughout 15 tracks, Live Human retain the free flowing dynamics at their root, while the enhanced production allows them to flesh out and more tightly sculpt their material. Mono-stereosis runs heavy on variety-ripples, flexes, and an awesome new sense of coherence-but the solid drumming of Mathais and Kushtin's bass explorations provide a shifting foundation, and Quest's scratchadelic turntable wizardry dazzles with an array of fresh sonic events. "The essence of instrumental hip hop at its most organic." -Hip Hop Connection
"Potentially groundbreaking."-The Wire
"Unexpected pleasure all around."-Cafe Bliss,br> "Hip hop science to leave your body to."-NME
"Wicked stuff."-M8 |
