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Free Deal - Anticipation

Anticipation by Free Deal

4...according to our on Tue 28 Nov, 2006.

Fancy some more of that dark, funked up French hip-hop that we like here at the towers (see next week for our shameless plugging of Greek funk-punk & Belgian neo-classical doom metal) FreeDeal's 'Anticipation' on Arbouse, home of rabid Hood fanciers, Acetate Zero. This is interesting notably for the way the colourful accents twist, bend & flip  round the perfectly competent beats & jerky D.I.Y samples. I do struggle with this stuff sometimes but this comes across as a fresh & vibrant listen. Like a more coherent Ghislain Poirier.

Hip Hop French saw a crisis of identity, not knowing which voice to follow: that of the music business (mass culture, with its through media marketing and its handling) or that of the underground music, carries word of a fringe the recalcitrant ones. Freedeal unloads in this context, far from the stereotypes, the illusory claims or the Parisian modes, throwing blow a paving stone in the pond. The duet originating in the city to the Crocodiles (Nïmes), delivers a wafer length format here, without compromise and any complex. Holding up the autodidaxie like spearhead, Freedeal is a project completely "Do it yourself", all is composed of to A to Z, not of instrus easy with a piano or a violin, all is thought, reflected. The sound is rougher, percussion there, lorgnant towards mentors such as RZA, Mobb Deep (without false modesty nor prétention)... Freedeal returns thus to the sources, with a vindicatory rap, certainly, acid, not saving anybody especially not an industry of the disc disaster victim and hypocrite. But the duet is not satisfied to be useful of the lessons, and to make morals. Freedeal speaks about its history, of its felt and gives its point of view on our often sordid, individualistic and crushing company of creativity. If their vision can appear pessimistic, it does not remain less realistic about it, giving Hip Hop where it should always have remained, in a step almost citizen in the form of contemporary poetry.

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