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Aleister X - Half-Speed Mastered (2013) {Steev Mike SM-21478}

Posted By: ruskaval

Date: 26 Feb 2018 00:41:41

Aleister X - Half-Speed Mastered (2013) {Steev Mike SM-21478}
EAC rip (secure mode) | FLAC (tracks)+CUE+LOG -> 258 Mb | MP3 @320 -> 88 Mb
Full Artwork @ 300 dpi (png) -> 18 Mb | 5% repair rar
© 2013 Steev Mike | SM-21478
Underground Rap / Dub / Hip Hop / Rock / Punk-Pop / Electronic

For fans of Juicy J, Beck, Kool Keith, David Crosby, Andrew WK, Sweet, DJ Screw, Lee "Scratch" Perry, "Half Speed Mastered" is unreal album of disparate influences and stream of consciousness pop cult lyrics. Aleister X has been releasing underground and digital release since the mid 2000s, but "Half Speed Mastered" is his full length debut and the best thing the performer has done yet. Confusing but intriguing on first listens, this album grows on you and gets its hooks into your brain like nothing else. Bouncy pop hooks meet chopped n screwed beats and big picture lyrics, all with a seedy celebration of the Los Angeles vibe. Give the songs a chance and you will not be disappointed.

Mysterious N.Y.C. performer Aleister X first emerged in the late 2000s with a series of EPs, cameo appearances, and mixtapes, building steam toward his proper debut album, Half-Speed Mastered. The record's 14 tracks present a collection of endless stimuli and demonstrate an intentionally obscured mastery of different musical styles in constant clash. While certain reference points could be made to try to explain the sound, nothing neatly wraps up the experience. Some of the same intensity that characterizes Andrew W.K.'s recordings (incidentally, the album was mixed by W.K. and released on his Steev Mike label) is pushed through a psychedelic filter that drains into a melting pot of grimy bedroom beats, screwed samples, and an almost Ariel Pink-meets-Lil B production. Aleister X's conceptual approach is so deep it becomes invisible, with both the brilliant production choices and litany of hooks sometimes overshadowed by the incredible weirdness of the project. Gritty street raps centered around Hollywood debauchery are delivered in a faux-British accent with frequent shout-outs to New York City. Bouncy sunshine pop basslines ride on scattershot electro beats on catchy tracks like "LAX" and the mantra-like "Bad Vibrations" before disintegrating into either depraved rhymes or gorgeous vocal harmonies buried deep in the mix. Equal parts guitar rock, Streets-styled bedroom rap, and even the druggy paranoia of early Royal Trux recordings play into walls of noise like "California Gurls," and elsewhere "Comedy City" is little more than a list of comedians as recited while on some particularly bad acid. "Dome Master Mike" manages to strangle contemporary dancehall elements around a stuttering drum machine, wrangling even more disparate sonic elements into the album's ever-expanding patchwork. The strength of Half-Speed Mastered that might not come through at first listen is that its seemingly random mess of strange sounds and its wild combinations are completely considered and sculpted with intention and control. Listening closely, it's easy to see that it'd be impossible to accidentally create something this astonishingly weird and yet surprisingly engaging. Aleister X has built an intricate and totally befuddling world on Half-Speed Mastered, one less accessible but not too far removed from Beck's weirdo beginnings or Kool Keith's most bizarre sidetracks. The music may be too ahead of its time to connect with every listener, and no doubt will see a fair amount of controversy, but the secretly infectious songwriting and utterly head-scratching elements of X's persona make it a sound that's hard to ignore whether you understand it or not.

Track Listing

01 - Lax
02 - Hxllywxxd Signs
03 - Topanga Strangla
04 - Bad Vibrations
05 - Mulholland Driver
06 - Cheeseburger Tits
07 - Malibu
08 - Fairy 'S'nuff
09 - California Gurls
10 - Comedy City
11 - West Coast Tees
12 - Domemaster Mike
13 - The Closer
14 - Dude Turned Blue

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Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 29. August 2014, 17:24

Aleister X / Half-Speed Mastered

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