Articles by Andy Lee

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  Porest

  Prude Juice for the Heritage Swinger

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Porest is the moniker of Mark Gergis, a Bay Area composer bent on raising hell with a microphone, a computer and his own wit. Gergis is rig...

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  Voodoo Child

  Baby Monkey

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Baby Monkey is the offspring of a night of drunken revelry in subzero Glaswegian weather by one Moby in 2002. Inspired by an underground pa...

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  Opus

  Breathing Lessons

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Mr. Echoes and The Isle of Weight, collectively known as the Opus, have been making beats for years. They specialise in gloomy cinematic nu...

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  RJD2

  Since We Last Spoke

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  How do you follow up a debut credited by underground heads as saving hip-hop? If you’re RJD2, you ignore the hype and do what you do best:...

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  Z Man

  Dope or Dog Food

  PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2004

  Z Man’s Dope or Dog Food is a concept album of sorts that ironically exists between its titular polar opposites. The Hieroglyphics-affiliat...

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  Planet of the Apes

  Franklin J. Schaffner

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Long before Marky Mark and the monkey bunch, Charlton Heston starred in the original Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle's vintage science-fi...

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  Crystal Method

  Legion of Boom

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Legion of Boom begins innocuously enough, with a sly synth riff that bursts into an U.N.K.L.E.-themed break beat. It’s followed by "Born To...

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  Northern State

  Dying In Stereo

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2004

  Northern State consists of three NYC b-girls with a mission: redefine hip-hop. Hesta Prynn, Guinea Love, and DJ Sprout keep it old school w...