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...Backed by cinematic strings, “The End Starts Today” is a positively grandiose affair, indicative of the major change Bis have undertaken. The raw immediacy of their past has been displaced by an apparent craving for a deeper sound—exemplified by the expanding bass-drone and movie strings that occupy “Chicago,” imbuing it with an almost oppressively romantic quality. The same song represents Bis’ new approach at its best, boasting a multi-tiered structure and intriguing ending, which, with its cut up breakbeats and 303 acid...
...lyrics are merely a trampoline to get the band bouncing before they head off into the clouds. It all comes together beautifully on “Mr. Oysterhead,” the song that sums everything up both lyrically and musically: From the ludicrously phat funk of the bass, and the high-hat shuffle that used to send Sting into orbit, to the cocky lyrics, “When all else has been done and said / Along comes Mr. Oysterhead / He’s an inspiration to us all.” Indeed he is?...
...which De La Soul slides in perfectly amongst the brass stabs and chunky guitar. The rhythm section has to rein in their polyrhythmic tendencies a little, but the momentum is great. At times Ozo sound, to their credit, a bit like a sublimely rejuvenated and bass-heavy Buena Vista Social Club, with lugubrious vocal lines even in the midst of relentlessly upbeat songs like “Guerrillero.” Which makes Kanetic Source’s rap in the middle of “Dos Cosas Ciertas” sound a little like a mic-rush...
...paranoia level has grown to the point that airlines sometimes are throwing people off flights simply because nervous fellow passengers deem them "suspicious." When an Indian passenger told an American he was a bass guitarist, which another traveler misheard as "Bosnian terrorist," he and another Indian flying with him were booted off a Singapore Airlines flight preparing to leave for Hong Kong. Northwest ground staff refused to board three Iraqi-born Americans on a flight from Minneapolis to Salt Lake City, and two Pakistani businessmen were marched off a US Airways Florida-Baltimore shuttle when the pilot refused to take...
...band members are a loose group of a dozen musicians mostly from early-'90s Hong Kong rock bands N.T., Mai Tai, Screw and Anodize. They started jamming 10 years ago, and in 1999 put together a rap album with live guitars and drums. To do so, they turned bass player Jimmy's apartment -- which had earlier doubled as the Anodize band HQ -- into a recording studio that has since produced four LMF albums, plus solo albums by band members DJ Tommy, who spins and scratches hip-hop beats onstage, and guitarist and producer Davy Chan. The band's songs...