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Swap Meet Seers

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Download links and information about Swap Meet Seers by Dissent. This album was released in 2004 and it belongs to Electronica, Jazz, Bop genres. It contains 12 tracks with total duration of 44:01 minutes.

Artist: Dissent
Release date: 2004
Genre: Electronica, Jazz, Bop
Tracks: 12
Duration: 44:01
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Time Trekker 4:23
2. Je Me Souviens 3:58
3. Coming of Wage 4:40
4. Somewhere Up There 1:14
5. Where Lost Is Found 2:27
6. Off-Kilter 3:00
7. Dangling Strings 1:56
8. Buhdust 2:29
9. String Theory 4:42
10. Angels 4:16
11. Draft 2005 6:20
12. L'ame Celeste 4:36

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As hip-hop becomes the universal catch phrase for anything with drums (and even some music without drums), this exceptionally large San Francisco group — led by composer/multi-instrumentalist Greg Howe and featuring any and all combinations of 12 drummers, hitters, string players, horn blowers, and computer programmers — is insistent on pushing the hip-hop definition as far as possible. The dark and moody film soundtrack style of "Coming of Wage"? Hip-hop. The hyperactive jazz break and horn skronk of "Off-Kilter"? Hip-hop. The slow-dancing French coo of vocalist Nathalie Sanchez on "Je Me Souviens"? Yup, you guessed it, hip-hop. Truth is, this album isn't that horribly different than what U.K. labels like Mo' Wax and Ninja Tune have been insisting is hip-hop for a decade, only someone finally has the gall to call it such without some quirky "trip-hop" tag. One guesses the main point is that you can envision some adventurous hip-hop DJ cutting on any one of these dozen selections between some Jay-Z pomp or Lil Jon crunk. Or, at least it sure would be nice if some DJ out there would do just that. Hip-hop used to mean one thing; now it means all things. Some fear that might dilute the cause. But if more "hip-hop" sounded like dissent, the movement would be stronger than ever.