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Circle

~ Boom Bip & Doseone
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (3 Jun 2002)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: The Leaf
  • ASIN: B000066CQB
  • Other Editions: Vinyl
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 88,825 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

Maverick MC Dose One (of leftfield rap crew CloudDead) and renegade DJ/producer Boom Bip are both known for their idiosyncratic approaches to hip-hop. Circle is not for the weak-hearted. Representing the quite sickening force of their warped minds on wax, this is as turbid and discursive, a document as you're likely to hear. Boom Bip builds his bold, b-boy based bricolage from whatever he can get his hands on: African riddims, birdsong, stamping feet, whistles, eerie graveyard noises, cinematics, dope beats, electro, creaks, rock guitar riffs... nothing is safe from his bubbling sound cauldron. Fluttering around this mazy, bewitching soundscape is the sinister, cartoon-esque voice of Dose One who, if anything, proves himself even more random and demented. Throwing out prose as spontaneous and dizzying as a Charlie Parker solo, the MC revels in nonsensical verse, absurdist juxtapositions and stream-of-consciousness lyrics, sweeping and diving madly from pleasant harmonising to paranoid whisperings. Though consistently unhinged and often unsettling, the moments when the duo line up beats and rhymes in straight-up hip-hop fashion are truly exhilarating, like sunshine suddenly breaking through a dense fog. One part hip-hop, two parts audio theatre, this album is ambitious, indulgent and intensely against the grain. "The only war that counts is the war against the imagination" chirps Dose One--and it looks like they've already won. –Paul Sullivan


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"This might be the best, and certainly the most challenging, document to have emerged from HipHop’s avant garde"
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars What the F**king Hell Was That?!!!!!, 29 Oct 2003
I put this on and sat in disbelief of what I was hearing. It flows! that's for sure. There are moments of pure genius here, like Tricky or Busta Rhymes or Lee Perry at their best - completely off the wall but undeniable. Is it IDM/Electro/Rap/Hip-hop/Trip-Hop/Etc - who cares? it's a piece of pure poetry, sometimes you hear a totally engaging hook and it just disappears from the mix, teasing you and moving on to the next killer break...

Some devastating tracks, listenable from beginning to end, challenging and engaging at the same time, it's just plain good music! (BTW: If you like this try Programmed by Innerzone Orchestra [aka Carl Craig])

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Stream of Unconsciousness, 11 Jun 2002
By deadmanjones (Stockport, UK) - See all my reviews
The Boom Bip music at times gives out because it can't keep up with the utterances, energy or inventiveness of the Doesone verbiage. It's Viv Stanshall for the electronica age; it does for hip hop and like genres what Beefheart did for Rock n Roll. A Trout Mask replica replica. When eventually the music is given centre stage you start to miss the voice of Doseone; no matter what he's saying. Weird, different, hilarious, unlistenable, unavoidable.
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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Square...no melodies., 28 Feb 2008
By J. Clucas (UK) - See all my reviews
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I just bought this and have been listening for a couple of days.

Let me start off by saying that I like Doseone. I think he's an interesting character, and the Deep Puddle Dynamics album is one of my all time favourites. I've also heard some awesome stuff by Boom Bip, although I am a little less familiar with his work. Let me also start off by saying that I am in no way AGAINST expanding the boundaries of hip-hop as it is currently known, and I can name many artists who are doing just that, but this album is neither as groundbreaking or as interesting as I was led to believe. I am a little dissapointed.

You know how "Frances the Mute" by the Mars Volta tends to have a lot of ambience and musical doodling in between songs? So does this album right here, and then you have the monologues and the musings of Doseone. I don't mind a bit of that, as Dose can be quite funny/thought provoking - I just think that they got the ratio wrong with this one. Too much skit not enough song.

The main thing that I think that this album lacks is melodies. Some of the songs/skits are just drums and vox, which isn't as much a step forward as it is a giant step back for hip-hop. Songs such as "The Birdcatcher's Return" have a decent sample with a melody, but others just don't seem to bother - and Doseone's changes in pitch seem to be almost indescriminate at times. I know some people are bored of us musicians insisting that you have to have a melody and a chord progression, but you DO. Not kidding.

Other than that...it's a pretty good, but very patchy album. It is not the work of genius that it is often hailed as, but if you like Doseone's rapping, abstract hip-hop music, DJ Shadow-esque instrumentals and lyrical content that ranges beyond the standard MTV fare, then you'll most likely get something out of this. While it is not universally excellent, the odd bits that are good are fantastic. Although it lacks melody in places, some of the tracks on this album are very rhythmically interesting.

I just feel that it would have made a better EP with reduced filler.

I hope this helps.
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