Carnage (Accompanied By Booka B) - Sense Of Sound
ARTIST.....: Carnage (Accompanied By Booka B)
TITLE......: Sense Of Sound
LABEL......: Hecatomb
URL........: www.myspace.com/carnagetheexecutioner
RIP DATE...: Sep-07-2007
STORE DATE.: Jul-17-2007
GENRE......: Hip-Hop
QUALITY....: VBR / 44.1Hz / Joint-Stereo
SIZE.......: 55,4 MB
Track Listing:
01 - The Onset (feat. Jimmy2Times) 01:19
02 - Orientation 02:04
(feat. Bill Mike & Jimmy2Times)
03 - Unleashed (feat. Bill Mike & Jimmy2Times) 02:27
04 - Maximum Carnage (feat. Bill Mike) 02:53
05 - Creative Freedom 04:21
(feat. Creative & Bill Mike)
06 - Bring The Soul Back (feat. Bill Mike) 02:47
07 - Negative Space 03:19
08 - Monsters Ink (feat. Illusion) 03:58
09 - The Stank 05:04
(feat. Desdamona, Bill Mike & Jimmy2Times)
10 - ...Get Down Wit Us (feat. Jimmy2Times) 03:41
11 - Signature (feat. Concentrate & Bill Mike) 02:53
12 - State Of Emergency (feat. Jimmy2Times) 03:50
13 - Sense Of Sound (feat. Jimmy2Times) 03:01
14 - Bring The Soul Back Continued 04:27
(Produced by Last Word) (feat. Jimmy2Times)
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46:04 min
Release Notes:
www.carnagexxxl.com
www.myspace.com/bookab
www.myspace.com/hecatomb
"I am called Carnage The Executioner. If I were to describe my
rhyme style in one sentence, it would read, "Immorally hand-woven
catastrophe tapestry orally attached to beats". My independent
LABEL & CREW are called HECATOMB.
I've appeared on over 30 releases since 1996. I was featured on a
number of Rhymesayers releases: Eyedea's "The Many Faces Of Oliver
Hart" album in 2002; Eyedea & Abilities' "E&A" album in 2004;
Eyedea's "Face Candy" album in 2006. The SWEEPS and myself
released "Bootleg Tracks From Junkion" EP in 2001 & the "Foreign
Genetics" full-length album in 2003. I released "The Carnology 0.5
EP" in 2004, just before touring with Eyedea & Abilities. My
newest release, "Sense Of Sound", dropped on July 17th 2007..."
Carnage is one of the Twin Cities' most diabolical battle MCs, a
beatbox juggernaut and the fastest-rapping Midwestern man on the
mic this side of Twista - but the opening lines on his first
full-length solo record, Sense of Sound, are carefully measured,
quietly whispered, and plainly factual: "What is a DJ if he don't
got scratch?/What is a producer without a tight track?/What is an
MC if he cannot rap?/Well we can do it all, baby, just like that."
As commanding as he is on the mic, Carnage always seems willing to
share the focus, so it's not much of a shock that it's taken him
almost a decade to drop a disc with his name as the most prominent
one - and even then, producer Booka B's name is still the same
size on the spine.
That brief refrain at the beginning of the album is the only
moment where Carnage seems to be holding something back, and the
rest of Sense of Sound is an exercise in the man's main strengths
- namely making the complex sound simple, and vice-versa. His flow
here skews toward a maniacal intensity that he sometimes ratchets
up to absurd levels: He's practically cackling by the end of
"State of Emergency"'s first intense syllable-juggling minute
("freakish astounding/pugnacious conflict petty renouncer of the
Jesus medallion").
Tracks like "The Stank" and the title cut display a b-boy
poet/street preacher-side to his style, with its sing-song
taunting and conversational rumination coming across like some
manic hybrid of Sadat X and Mike Ladd. Booka B's production keeps
the beat pounding even when the tone gets anxious (the scuzz-funk
of "...Get Down Wit Us" and the MGM musical dementia of "Creative
Freedom" are highlights).
Guitarist Bill Mike adds some maggot-brained snarl to cuts like
the seething "Bring the Soul Back," and guests ranging from Ill
Chemistry's Desdamona to Throwback Protocol's/SWEEPS' Concentrate
to Hecatomb labelmate Illusion drop in to give the album some
career-spanning context. But on Sense of Sound the spotlight is on
Carnage, and he owns it completely. (www.citypages.com)