Beastie Boys
Hot Sauce Committee Part Two 2LP

Biosphere's 'Substrata' is a rarely topped pinnacle of the '90s ambient canon. On its 18th birthday, the album's producer Geir Jenssen's Biophon label treats it to a subtle facelift at Pole's mastering desk, reanimating the still-mindblowing likes of 'Sphere Of No-Form' in all their captivating and frost-bitten wonder.

Hot Sauce Committee Part Two is the Beastie Boys' eighth album. Their wizard blend of goofy creativity and deft discipline ensures that the best tracks here are simultaneously scattershot and focussed – like the way Too Many Rappers cooks up mean funk from Space Invaders noise and cranium-crushing low-end (and throws in a guesting Nas), or how Say It pulls nagging hooks from abstract feedback drones and then welds them to subterranean bass grooves that could level mountains, before collapsing into stoned synth doodles that’ll amuse all but the terminally dreary. On paper, both are messes; but on record they make canny sense. The sound of the Beasties here is catnip for those who still revere their late 80s/early 90s output: vocals are drenched in reverb like a hippie dabs patchouli, while the tracks fuse live instrumentation and samples with a simpatico they’ve perfected since Check Your Head, delivering tracks alive with ideas and chaos and funk and noise and groove, dense enough to get lost in for at least a summer. They don’t shy away from pop moments, though: OK has a dippy new wave catchiness evoking Ad-Rock’s BS 2000 side-project – it’s as infectious as crabs – while the dub-a-delic Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win has Santigold playing straight-woman to their Marx-Brothers-of-Rap lunacy with an aplomb that could own the charts if the weather stays balmy.

2LP - Double 180 Gram Vinyl.

Produs Nou / Anul aparitiei: 2011 / Reissue 2017

Tracklist:

A1 Make Some Noise

A2 Nonstop Disco Powerpack

A3 Ok

B1 Too Many Rappers (New Reactionaries Version)

B2 Say It 3:25

B3 The Bill Harper Collection 0:24

B4 Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win

C1 Long Burn The Fire

C2 Funky Donkey

C3 The Larry Routine

C4 Tadlock's Glasses

C5 Lee Majors Come Again

D1 Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament

D2 Here's A Little Something For Ya

D3 Crazy A** S**T

D4 The Lisa Lisa/Full Force Routine