Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical BeatdownNew York Hip Hop revolutionaries Ced Gee, Kool Keith, Moe Luv and T. R. Love, known as Ultramagnetic Mc's dropped their seminal debut album Critical Beatdown in 1988. Immediately grabbing the attention and pushing the boundaries of hip hop into new horizons, it was hailed as a masterpiece by the underground. Influential hip hop magazines The Source and Hip Hop Connection both listed Critical Beatdown in their Top 100 charts, naming it one of the best

Never has the recounting of atrocity been so seductively pitched

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Breathless and hymnal it gave pause for thought for anyone who liked to use the words personal and political in the same sentence

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LP - 200 copies only

its assemblage of reconfigured and recontextualised aural sources preceded the sample clearance system that later emerged in the music industry

Liquid guitar lines that wriggle around each other like oiled up eels

the band released two albums for Bar/None and three for Kindercore

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but each of them taking everything in from very different perspectives

Declaring the album "already out

each with pure exhilaration at its core