Love Drive Commission $26.99 (AUD) Presenting a degustation for your ears: the Love Drive Commission is the debut album from Brisbane-based MC and producer Calski. His approach to beat making on the MPC, sampling and live instrumentation brings pathos back to hip hop.
Calski’s ability to build diverse sonic scenery is on par with the likes of Madlib, Yesterday’s New Quintet and Cinematic Orchestra. LDC shifts us into the world of dreams, becoming the soundtrack to an unmade film, with the grit of Detroit, the drums of New York and the smoothness that only comes from the west coast.
This album showcases the talent of an emcee and a producer who gives the finger to digitised-to-death music and hollow stars. Hailed for his “great sample manipulation” (Dave Ruby Howe, assistant music director, triple j), Calski has handled production duties for Shawn Lov, the Bingethinkers and Impossible Odds. The Love Drive Commission is an intelligent album from a tho |