Edan - Beauty And The Beat

Edan expands the golden-age hip-hop vocabulary of Primitive Plus on his second album, Beauty And The Beat. Dusty breaks, rock and pop samples, hazy loops and abrupt changes of pace are drawn into a continuous musical collage. Insight, Percee P, Mr. Lif and Dagha join the record, with 'Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme' sitting alongside the psychedelic turns of 'Making Planets' and 'Rock And Roll'. The thirteen-track programme closes with 'Smile' and 'Promised Land', completing a compact album that treats rap history and imaginative sample construction as parts of the same conversation.

Format: Vinyl LP
Label: Lewis Recordings
Catalogue number: LEWIS1118LP

Tracklist

A1. Polite Meeting
A2. Funky Voltron (feat. Insight)
A3. I See Colours
A4. Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme
A5. Murder Mystery
A6. Torture Chamber (feat. Percee P)
B1. Making Planets (feat. Mr. Lif)
B2. Time Out (Segue)
B3. Rock And Roll (feat. Dagha)
B4. Beauty
B5. The Science Of The Two (feat. Insight)
B6. Smile
B7. Promised Land