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1. Cheap Entertainment
2. Self Inflicted Wounds
3. Predictions
4. Sin Carne
5. Entalude
6. Locust Farm
7. Every Single One Of Us
8. Typical, A
9. Crisis
10. Manifesto 232
11. Banks Of Marble
12. Atheist Jihad - (featuring Bluebird)
13. Dumb This Down
14. Imsotired
15. On Martyrdom
16. Theme
17. Drive By Detournmen



Imagine a computer powerful enough to index all possible combinations of a language-- a billion monkeys with typewriters, or Borges's Library of Babel on a hard drive. It's unnerving that this hypothetical machine would eventually achieve philosophical and scientific breakthroughs simply by chancing across the correct combination of words.

After spending too much time in Live from Rome's claustrophobic ruins, it's tempting to imagine the remarkably prolix Sole as this engine of pure linguistic potential. Of course, this machine would produce everything between gibberish and eloquent treatises on ethics; following suit, Sole's apparent need to say everything produces songs of varied coherence.

Sole's style is meant to be jarring, and to express the clash of impassioned ideology and over-self-consciousness in its author. Many of us uncomfortably recognize the urge to dismiss our own passionately held political beliefs as clich?Šd, but Sole misfires when he captures this zeitgeist with too much fidelity. When his puns are intentionally bad, his flow intentionally torpid, his polemics intentionally ham-fisted, it raises questions about how intellectual intent mitigates aesthetic effect when gauging artistic value, but can still seem hokey, lazy, or pedantic. How close can a satire come to what it satirizes without becoming it?

Sole squanders several of Odd Nosdam's and Alias' polished beats by overstating his case. "Predictions" is one example, beginning with a series of groaners-- "Debbie Gibson will make an electronica comeback/ Ice Cube will go feminist"-- that morph into a caricatured anti-capitalist worst-case scenario. It feels dishonest and artificial, which is unfortunate, because Sole in general seems neither of these. These missteps smack of a visionary who's wandered into an unsound region of his imagination.

But there are plenty of winners here as well. "Self-Inflicted Wounds", with the comparatively laconic poetry of its lyrics, a liquid flow, and ethereal beat, weaves enchantment from pithy declarations: "I am to rap what Christian is to Indian," Sole spits with fanged poignancy. And in a typically contrary move, he's hidden his four best tracks at the end of the album, as if he were ashamed of their immediate, intuitive appeal.

On "Imsotired", a piano phrase subtly distends as Sole's distorted flow unapologetically straddles the twitchy drums. "On Martyrdom" finds him wreaking havoc on an elaborate 8-bit bounce track. The wafting spoken word of "Theme" and the straightforward crunk of "Drive by Detournment" ram the point home-- Sole's socialist screeds work well when he raps them like he means them instead of couching them in layers of affected irony. These songs prove him capable of focusing more on visceral appeal and less on stagy esotericism while maintaining his intellectual ambition, and one hopes this album is a steppingstone toward cementing this vision.

-Brian Howe, February 21, 2005

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...and your point is........
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in cazu tau,poate ai vrea sa l asculti!
daca nu,esti liber sa te pi# pe el....ce treaba am io?
chiar daca e putin diferit de preferintele multora de aici,sunt cateva piese care le ar placea si celor care nu au mai avut ocazia sa asculte Sole!
dintr un anumit point,spre exemplu,productia merita urmarita !
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mm .. il dau jos pana diseara, sa vedem.. :D
you just never know when you're living in a golden age.

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hmm.. o sal scot din curiozitate
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Sole was hatched the year Elvis overdosed??€�1977??€�in the far northeastern city of Portland, Maine. He recorded his first demo in 1992, which featured such unhits as ??€?Cops Ain??€�t Shit,??€? whose first lines snarled, ??€?I??€�m still pissed about Rodney,/ yeah, pissed is what they got me.??€? For reasons he chooses not to recall, he shopped the demo to Entertainment Resources International, the management company responsible for Da Brat, Kris Kross and Xscape. There was serious initial interest in what may have been the first great white kiddie rapper, and they flew him to Florida to record a few songs. When sole idealistically insisted on DJ Premier beats and they could offer him but Jermaine Dupri remixes, however, the deal gracefully fell through. Soon after, at 15, sole regrouped and with a new crew??€�45 Below Records, which included anticonian alias??€�and a new DJ??€�Cuz the Highlander, who in later years emerged as a rare record guru and occasional producer (under the name Moodswing9) in the Bay Area??€�and released an album under the name Northern Exposure. That album, Mad Skillz and Unpaid Billz, was a mishmash of early 90??€�s hip-hop like Lord Finesse and Black Moon and sold upwards of 300 copies. A year later, fresh from this unsuccess and flush with savings from his after-school job at McDonalds, sole pressed up his first 12??€? and freely gave it away at the 1995 Gavin Convention to little effect. 1996 brought another sole group, Live Poets, and a new album, ??€?What??€�s It All About???€? While unmistakably beholden to classic East Coast rap, the album began to exhibit the considerable influence experimental and underground Los Angeles rap, circulated through long distance trading of hissy tapes. The rhyme schemes showed cracks and surprising fissures, and the lyric content veered wildly between the battle raps on which sole had been nourished and a more original strain of poeticized language delivered with compressed emotional force. One song in particular, ??€?Think Twice,??€? with its jangly setting, loosened song structure, and lyrics in which sole??€�s personal conflicts and ambivalences took center stage, was sole as the sole he would soon become.

Meanwhile, being the equal-parts curious and ambitious sort that he was, sole started up a webzine and an online radio station, run directly from his basement bedroom in Portland. Through his website, his compulsive contact-making, and he and pedestrian??€�s
semi-frequent assays into Brooklyn and Manhattan, sole??€�s world rapidly expanded to include a whole constellation of radical rappers and industry shitheads situated throughout North America. His Live Poets 12??€? from ??€�97, ??€?Respect??€? (which took the canonical O.C. line from ??€?Time??€�s Up??€???€�??€?I??€�d rather be broke and a have a whole lotta respect??€???€�as its premise), indicated the significant development of his art, garnered some press and college radio play, sold a few thousand copies, and most importantly led to further hook-ups among like-minded artists like doseone and jel, Atmosphere, the Shapeshifters, and the Sebutones (Sixtoo and Buck 65).With his typical blend of idealism and Ice Cubism, sole soon tired of the East Coast indie music establishment: ??€?I had worked too hard to water my shit down,??€? sole said in retrospect, ??€?just to gain accept-ance from people who don't even share my values.??€? In early ??€�98, sole and pedestrian, led by vague visions and strong desires, coined the name ??€?anticon??€? and decided to establish a broad-minded collective of rule-breaking rap musicians. pedestrian and sole soon fled westward and settled in the Bay Area, and in the years that followed, the rest of anticon gradually made their way to California as well.
anticon??€�s first flower was Deep Puddle Dynamics, which coalesced dose, jel, Atmosphere??€�s Slug, alias, and sole, and anticon??€�s opening salvo was the collaborative vinyl EP, ??€?hip-hop music for the advanced listener,??€? which waged a full frontal assault??€�both directly and incidentally??€�on the staid rap industry on behalf of the marginalized but aesthetically expansive rap underground. In 2000 sole released his proper debut, Bottle of Humans, which provided target practice for hip-hop conservatives and an object of adoration for critics and a range of fans who instinctually trampled over the artificial borders of genre. anticon??€�s brand grew exponentially through tours, consistent aesthetic growth, and perpetual indiffer-ence to industry expectations. 2003 saw sole??€�s accomplished and acclaimed Selling Live Water, which earned unlikely laudatory bouquets from magazines like Rolling Stone and Playboy. In 2004 sole relocated to Barcelona, Spain with his wife, and has cast himself as a rapping Nero to the western world??€�s enflamed Rome, touring not only the U.S., but Western and Eastern Europe (even having rocked throughout the former Yugoslavia a few times), Israel, Japan and Australia. In 2004 he recorded a self-produced record for Morr Music under the moniker, mansbestfriend. He has made music with DJ Krush, Sage Francis, Slug, Atmosphere, sixtoo, and the entire anticon family. Meanwhile, he??€�s kept his hopes characteristically too high, his wit sharpened to a jagged point, and his raps painfully true.


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c'est bien ca,mais....ceva pareri personale...despre album sau alte piese sau altceva....te descurci,nu?

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Post by Deena »

informatiile sunt d pe site'ul anticon.com am si muzika (d la Sole, why?,sage francis,restiform bodies,pedestrian,dosh , --> alias......eh ma laud si io....gen.... 8) :lol:
parerea mea : suna bine!!!ceea ce fac ei e ok! :wink:

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aha..am inteles!
legat de asta am ascultat cateva bucati sage cu sole, dar am apreciat in special o varianta live de la "can i kick it"(sole invitat cu bucata proprie).se completau destul de bine!o.k.
pareri in continoare...

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Post by doru649 »

mda.. mi'era cam frica sa ascult albumul asta, dupa selling live water si the new human is illegal... ca sa asculti sole tre sa ai o oarecare stare de spirit.. as fi preferat sa'l ascult pe o vreme mai mohorata, nu e tocmai happy music.

oricum, albumul asta e putin diferit de precedentele intr'un sens pozitiv si chiar l'am ascultat dintr'o rasuflare, cap-coada, cu placere. productia pare mai omogena, mai lucrata, iar sole e ceva mai controlat decat il stiam: nu se mai arunca in freestyle-uri kilometrice, face pauze la breakdown-uri si are o dictie ceva mai buna (!).

in rest, acelasi sarcasm, acelasi spirit critic, acelasi "revolutionary".. piese preferate: atheist jihad (CE BAS!!!), sin carne, every single one of us.

nu prea mai agreez tentele politice (sadaam/bush), dar, per ansamblu, albumul merita toata atentia :!:

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bai sa nu mi-o luati in nume de rau dar nu credeti k e cam aiurea sa luati informatii de pe siteuri si sa le postati aici?oricum cei ce nu asc anticon sau genu asta de muzica(am obs ca nu prea e apreciat) nu se vor obosi sa citeasca.hai sa facem o oarecare conversatie constructiva decat sa dam copy/pasta la niste informatii care nu or sa ramana in cap nimanui....fara sa fiu rea sunt sigura k dk o intreb pe Deena nistre intrebari despre sole sau despre oricare artist anticon sau afiliat labelului, informatii care se afla pe site poate, nu stie sa raspunda....nu k as avea ceva cu ea ...sa nu ma intelegeti gresit....
de fapt intelegeti cum vreti.....pana mea...atata timp cat doar 2-3 oameni or sa scrie ceva cu adevarat interesant cu privire un album e clar k nu vom convinge penimeni sa-l asculte si nici pe aici nu se va isca o conversatie inteligenta... :shock:

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btw sole m-a inpresionat intotdeauna prin temele abordate cat si prin flow...nu pot sa spun in schimb ca toate negativele ma ating....
atheist jihad.....mult prea tare

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Daya .. :baioneta:


aiight?

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sop probleme? :))

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Daya wrote:btw sole m-a inpresionat intotdeauna prin temele abordate cat si prin flow...nu pot sa spun in schimb ca toate negativele ma ating....
atheist jihad.....mult prea tare
temele mai sunt abordate si de altii, in schimb e interesant modu de abordare si felu in care se leaga cu negativu.....
daca o sa mai fie ceva posturi,poate inchegam o discutie;daca nu...auditie placuta!
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