15 Battles - Mirrored (Warp Records) : Everybody’s been talking about “Mirrored” this year, and they kind of deserve it for getting their oddtimed dissonant music to find strange acclaim from mainstream circles as well as mathheads.
14 Deejay OM - Reheated Naan and Curry (Galapagos4) : A fine hybrid of Indian samples mixed with beats. [...]

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Mike Gao seen here with his crew in 91!
I mentioned Chicago’s Galapagos4 Crew on Deejay Om’s lovely effort a few posts ago. This leftfield instrumental hiphop/beat crew has been on my playlist with their 2005 stuff for some time with artists like Mestizo, Denizen Kane, Royce, Meaty Ogre and Mike Gao. It’s a shame [...]

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Whooo, it’s time to review one of my favourite CDs from 2007 just before it gets a regular western world release on Galapagos4, a leftfield hiphop label that slipped through my filters this year, with artists like Mike Gao and Mestizo. I’d like to introduce you to Deejay OM’s eclectic postmodern masterpiece “Reheated Naan and [...]

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