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What the press is saying about Rainydayz Remixes. |
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"The Bay Area producer (Akon, Talib Kweli)/half of Zion
I has scrapped together a project dubbed Rainydayz Remixes, culling
six IR cuts and chopping 'em up, spiking the punch with varying
degrees of embellishments. "Weird Fishes" stays true
to the original's arc -- one groove, one progression; slowly grooving,
slowly progressing -- spiced up with a fake finish, some Thom
tinkering and a Radiohead-meets-Neptunes-enhanced-JT beat. Ain't
nobody love you like I love you, etc." - Stereogum "Wow. California MC Amplive slices and dices a (let's face it, kind of bloodless) new Radiohead song and turns it into a sleek and simmering hip-hop track. If more of In Rainbows sounded like this, we might not feel so chapped about shelling out for the discbox." - Rollingstone.com
"Why can't hip-hop and indie rock values segue together as gracefully, as artfully, as Oakland DJ-producer Amplive's trip-hop–tinged remix of "Nude," a suturing together of his group Zion I's "Don't Lose Ya Head" and Radiohead's ethereal hum, with classic Yay touches of Too $hort?" - SF Bay Guardian "Rainydaze Remixes is most effective when it is at its boldest, accelerating the dreary original of 'All I Need' into hard-nosed trip hop punctuated by stabbing brass, or transforming 'Weird Fishes' into a gentle drift downstream." - Guardian UK
"One standout track from the project is "Weird Fishes," which Amplive has transformed from a synthesizer-and-guitar odyssey into an ominous electro-trance expedition. Some other strong tracks feature guests: The pimp-rap specialist Too $hort enlivens a bass-boosted "Nude," and Del Tha Funkee Homosapien triples the verbiage on "Videotape."" - New York Times
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