LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS
VOL.1 - THE FALL OF PILLARS (ASTHMATIC KITTY)
This complex and obsessively-detailed sci-fi epic utilizes the medium of recorded hip-hop as a fundamental construct, not just as a shtick connection to the fiction of science.
The album's commitment to narrative detail is exhaustive, like a zealous Dungeon Master for suburbanites weaned on Choose Your Own Adventure books, Yo! MTV Raps and noise cassette culture.
Land of a Thousand Rappers thematically shoots in multiple arcs like quantum variables.
Temporal discontinuity, the dialogue of race in American music, pyschohistorical revisionism? Geolinguistics, the vernacular of spam email, concrete poetry, the 1980's art market boom, Harry Partch, a book on afro-futurism that sells for $150 on Amazon? The Theater of the Absurd, John Titor, early female hip-hop duo L'Trimm, liquid computing, Moondog, Mesoamerican civilizations, etc? Huh?