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META 004CD
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After two brilliant 12"s, Berlin dub magicians Tolcha release their first longplayer Gestalt. Put out by Shir Khan's and Tolcha's new digi-hop label Meta Polyp, this album is going to be something like dark electronica, mixed with smoky dub and grimey post hip-hop. After all, there is a new scene coming up from Berlin and it is somewhat dub infused and bass heavy, with members like Tolcha, Jahcoozi, The Tape, Al Haca, Data MC, Modeselektor and Quio, all calling from the same 'hood... all part of the new sound. With Gestalt, Tolcha are introducing their brand new soundscape of rolling bass, pitch-bending effects and streetwise lyrics all recycled through the echo chamber. Tolcha experiment with their tracks in a very unconventional way. They use dub as a musical tool, but more in terms of creating that certain darkness. RQM, the man with the love for spoken word artforms, rough beats and thick basslines, the mutated offspring of the hip-hop movement, who is always trying to push it into the future through his sonic experiments, features prominently on his contributions to this record. Fourteen tracks of pure audio madness, experimental shit and deepness galore. Gotta love it! Also featuring: Sasha Perera (Jahcoozi), Maxx (ex-The Goats), Rider Shafique (Pressure Drop), Ras T-Weed (ex-Rockers HiFi), Neonman (Pale) and Al Haca (Klein).
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META 003EP
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This is the first official Al Haca release since last year's groundbreaking collaboration with Vienna's Stereotyp. Rather than pure dancefloor madness, the new material drops the BPM count and goes for the smoked-out headphone aesthetic. The sound is impenetrably deep, bass heavy and dubbed the fuck out. "Mind Games" features Ras T-Weed, formerly of rockers Hi-Fi and RQM, and "Day Break" features RQM alongside Pressure Drops emcee Ryder Shafique rapping about the ups and downs of relationships in a spoken word style. The song is an introverted masterpiece set to the most subliminal contorted bassline. This 7" is Al Haca showing what they do best -- defying genres in a way that make any audiophile's ear thirst for more.
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META 002EP
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Metapolyp introduces a future soul, high tech, dubbed-out heavy hitter from Al Haca's MCC + RQM and Tolcha's Rasda. Earth (the real...) was recorded in a little cottage deep in a forest on the island of Usedom, Germany. A wayward mushroom picker named Dunlok Backson spontaneously provided the entire Earth lyrics in one freestyling outburst. Everyone agreed the track was a certified banger, and so the band Ütz was born. The project was sealed with a Stereotyp remix -- a colossal reinterpretation of the original. And as for Dunlok, the only evidence of him is his vocals and an email address that doesn't work, scribbled on a Tolcha record release flyer before he bounced.
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