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...done because we were new to the game, let the barriers down, and just went anywhere,” Jolicoeur said in an Ice Magazine interview about their latest release. But while this album may not rank with De La Soul’s classic debut, Bionix is a hip-hop album of surprisingly high consistency: There is perhaps only one song on the whole album that could not be released as a single, Pawn Star, and only because it has the sounds of girls groaning passionately throughout the chorus...
...Soul have, over the 12 years of their existence, become something of a hip-hop institution. Since 1989 they have released five albums: 3 Feet High and Rising (1989), De La Soul is Dead (1991), Buhloone Mindstate (1993), Stakes is High (1996) and Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000). Their style has obviously evolved a great deal, but the constant has been their instrumental experimentation, which is furthered on Bionix instruments as diverse as the French Horn, flugelhorn and flute. What is more interesting, though, is the group’s diversification of musical genres, most notably the appearance...
...group’s commercial success gave them the springboard to introduce a much wider audience to De La Soul’s characteristic brand of hip-hop. That’s what they were doing with the re-release of 3 Feet High, and it is continued, to an extent, on Bionix. Whereas Mosaic Thump was geared towards atmospheric beats and creating a party vibe, Bionix is much more lyrically focused, much more a return to the intensity of communication that sets albums like 3 Feet High apart...
...willing to lose hate for Love?” to which a chorus of small children answers, “Yes, we’re willing.” In a genre that can be intensely cynical and self-absorbed, it is a relief to find a hip-hop song of wider scope...
...Soul’s brand of hip-hop may always be too esoteric, too genuine to be truly popular. But that’s not something they’re worried about, and it shows in their music: it really feels like it is from the soul de la soul. And that makes it all the more enjoyable to listen to. They have been around forever, and with the final installment of the AOI trilogy due out next year, we definitely haven’t heard the last of this group. Here’s hoping they?...