iD.EOLOGY - Because Best Things Are Free

A new stellar release from iDEOLOGY (possibly the best netlabel currently?). This time rounds its European Hop Hop at its finest.

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From iDEOLOGY:

“If it doesn’t cost anything, it has no value.”, grandma used to say. While we turn our faces into the sun, inhale deeply and our mouths go wide with a placid smile, we have some second thoughts on this statement. Glaring sunshine, clean air and a nice smile, all this comes at zero cost and still, it’s not only vital, it’s what makes life worth living in the first place.

We at iD.EOLOGY have similar ideas about music. And while even established rock-acts seem to slowly change their minds likewise, with our release-no. iD.046 we doubly underline our familiar opinion that the best things actually are free in bold print. The first release in a loose compilation-series, featuring selected genre-specific musical gems by celebrated iD. allstars as well as exciting new discoveries, chills you and ourselves out with a pleasant treatment for both body and mind.

Since good things take time, it comes packed with some 45 minutes of finest hiphop. Just like it’s a common fashion in hiphop to massage your neck with a recombination of the most different sorts of stylistic elements, the beats of the “Edition Hiphop” will relax you with their oscillation inbetween minimalist reservation and funky exuberance, inbetween the digital creak and the analogue crackle, inbetween intricate jazz-rhythms and straightforward easy listening grooves better than a professional Shiatsu-therapy.

And just like it is also a common fashion in hiphop to make an explicit statement, the MCs featured on this compilation speak a pretty clear, if sometimes poetic and surreal language. Far off from highbrow pretentiousness and gutter-slang, the raps tell stories out of everyday life when it was in a particularly good, merciless or quirky mood.

So luckily, grandma wasn’t right about everything she used to say. But who knows, had she known this compilation, she might have been more able to appreciate the things that life just gives to you for free.

Posted in Netlabel Music on May 13th, 2008 by Robot Disco | | 1 Comments