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Artist:	DJ VADIM
Title:	U.S.S.R. The Art Of Listening
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	ZEN 068CD

"Hip hop's favorite Russian ex-pat returns with his third album. ...Listening has all of the angular abstractions of Vadim's earlier work, but here it is combined with a new depth of musicality, a love of bass and an interest in music and words from around the world. So, alongside US MCs like Slug, Gift of Gab, Motion Man and Vakill, and the cream of underground UK wordspitters Taskforce and Phi Life Cypher, can be found Polish jazz legend Urzula Dudziak (a favored sample source for A Tribe Called Quest back in the day), Gruff from Super Furry Animals, Ade Soma and the Rev'd Clevie Brown. Tablas and djembe drums mix with Japanese flutes, Brazilian guitars, spoken word, obscure scratched sound bites all build the whole into something unusual and special. It makes for a heady mixture, a record which Vadim describes as 'a very grown up but cheeky and extremely musical album.' Urban but experimental, fresh and different, this record goes beyond not only what he has done before, but beyond much of today's hip hop. With its global view of music, its new emphasis on soul, and its concrete feel for the aesthetic of the sample, The Art Of Listening is funny, serious, unique."

Artist:	DJ VADIM
Title:	USSR: The Art Of Listening (Instrumentals)
Label:	NINJA TUNE (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ZEN 068RLP

"Hear all your favorite cuts in all their naked glory. Put new vocals over the cuts and pretend that for one shining moment you too got smuggled out of Russia when you were young and went on to be an internationally known hip-hop producer... Okay, enough. This is some handy shit. Kids got to have it. As an added bonus there's some tracks on here that are instrumentals of cuts that never even made the original version of the album."

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