A Reminder > Malcom Kipe Presents: "Lit". Austin, TX On Flames Of Dj Shadow & Dj Signify Heavy Smoked Tradition.

Second Merck CD from Austin, Texas based producer Malcom Kipe, better known to some as Nautilis (of Planet-Mu). Lit is a get down and dirty piece focused on the aesthetics of raw sample based hip hop and the nasty sampling habits of Malcom Kipe. This is a collection of 52 minutes of beats and instrumentals composed of twenty tracks made and polished in 2004 & 2005. This album is strongly influenced early 90’s hip hop production and excessive crate digging. Including lots of material that fans of his previous full length CD, Breakspiracy Theories, should fall in love with. Digipak. Limited to 2000. By Darla

Malcom Kipe makes mealy instrumental hip-hop, further fermented throughout by the odd vocal sample or electronic squiggle. Simple as that. As long as you're not heading into 'Lit' expecting any blinding bouts of sonic innovation, then you'll likely be cosily seduced by Hipe's rich beats and half-glanced vocals in a RJD2/Blockhead/Mo'Wax-stylee. Otherwise engaged as Planet Mu's Nautilis, Hipe certainly knows his organic beat onions; with tracks like 'Off The Joint' and 'Planet of the Rats' consummately straddling the line between sinister and head-nodding so as to appeal well beyond the bong and baggy jeans brigade. Massaging in nods to everyone from Morodor through to bollywood, 'Lit' is full-fat breaks done well. Literally...By Boomkat

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