catalogue

LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS

VOL.1 - THE FALL OF PILLARS (ASTHMATIC KITTY)

LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS - VOL.1 - THE FALL OF PILLARS 31447
format:
1 CD
release:
10.08.2007
label:
ASTHMATIC KITTY
genre:
Hip Hop
item ID:
31447
barcode:
0656605810928
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?
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. PAST ICE AND ICE AND MORE
  • 1.2. FUTURE PAST PERFECT
  • 1.3. HIGH WATER TREASON
  • 1.4. BELLY OF THE BEA(TS/ST)
  • 1.5. 14KARROT BUTCHER KNIFE
  • 1.6. GRIZZLY AND THE TENTACLE SUCKERPUNCHED
  • 1.7. THE LATE RETIREMENT OF ELVIS 2
  • 1.8. SILK SIREN SPORTS BAR & GRILL
  • 1.9. CORPORATE THUGGERY
  • 1.10. EXILE OF DR. KIPP NORMAND
  • 1.11. FACTOR IX FOR THE HEADWOUND
  • 1.12. WATER DISPLACEMENT
  • 1.13. GHOSTBASE AND THE THREAT OF ZERO KELVIN
  • 1.14. JUST INTONATION
  • 1.15. YOU, ME AND THE BATTLEBLADE
  • 1.16. ST. FRANCIS GROOVE
  • 1.17. THE STRATA OF BROADCAST
  • 1.18. STOPWATCH BURIAL
  • 1.19. FORGET THE CAPES, TEETH ARE SNAPPING!
  • 1.20. HOLY FOOL EN GARDE