RELEASES
DEF TEX
Poetic Speech Techniques EP
Son 008 / March 1999
With release number 8, SON delivers an EP full of surprises. UK underground veterans,
DEF TEX show their finest work to date on a piece of vinyl chock full of imagination, intelligence and straight-up hip-hop skills. This four man crew consists of emcees CHROME & ANTHROPOLOGIST, producer R-KEY and deejay SURE DELIGHT.
POETIC SPEECH TECHNIQUES
R-KEY hits it off with sweeping strings and a haunting guitar lick, before bringing the kick and the snare to make way for the lyrical tag-team dynamics of freestyle fanatic CHROME and poetic technician ANTHROPOLOGIST, each dropping intricate rhyme styles to satisfy any who appreciate finest beat poetics. Finely tuned scratches by deejay SURE DELIGHT make this polished production an effortlessly convincing opening shot from a crew long overdue.
RARE RIDE
This one’s got bounce by the bucketful, but there ain’t nothing jiggy here. Pure energy, as rhymes collide with living beats and bouncing double-bass. Hyped up scratches from SURE DELIGHT cut to ignite, while the DEF TEX emcees demonstrate personality and lyrical dexterity to get your party juices flowing. If you don’t feel this, then you must be dead ...
YES U CAN
Time to chill: the sound of insane human beatbox fused to enormous rumbling b-line provide the launch pad for our emcees to take you on a bizarre ride to the farside. Once again ignoring the expected, hyperactive rhymes fly around the lazy rhythm and induce severe head-nod. Primed to blow a sound system near you soon.
IN FLIGHT WITH DELIGHT
To round off proceedings, we thought we’d give you some more of that ill dj stuff. SURE D gets biz on a self-produced beat, and flings in some more of those funky dope manouevres. Icing? Cake? Yep.
A1. POETIC SPEECH TECHNIQUES
A1. POETIC SPEECH TECHNIQUES (INST.)
B1. RARE RIDE
B1. YES U CAN
B1. IN FLIGHT WITH DELIGHT
