Hi Dusty Stranger is pushing forward with atmospheric, instrumental Hip Hop just like DJ Shadow did with Entroducing. Where Shadow took journeys that touch on Drum and Bass and the at the time, the newly penned genre Trip Hop, he still remained Hip Hop to the core. In fact, he was changing the face of Hip Hop and beat oriented instrumental music forever. Frane has grabbed on to that philosophy however, and gone a step in his own direction. He too remains Hip Hop to the core, but also keeps it equal parts Funkadelic, Pink Floyd, 60′s Psych and Jazz, and Hip Hop history all rolled up in a 10 track Frane themed beat lesson. This effort falls more along J.Rocc’s Cold Rock Stuff in comparison than Entroducing, but it deserves to be right up there. It’s groundbreaking in this day and age of the 70 BPM beat or Dubstep ridiculousness and has been applauded by everyone from Wax Poetics to High Times (duh) to XL8R and more.
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