His taste in beats are impeccable?
Richard Diaz | 04/29/2003
(4 out of 5 stars)
"It's gotta be one or the other; keep the track instrumental or put on a vocal worthy of being there. That is - precisely - the dilemma with Bedrock Fractured, Hyper's worthy follow-up to last year's Bedrock Breaks.His taste in beats are impeccable. The cooled breaks of Momu's "Sunsicle," the buzzing bassline of Meat Katie and Christian J's heads-down "Cusp" and all around ace Pilgrem/Uberzone "Cous Cous," start things right, while a superb disc two shows off the sublime electro dub, chopped-vocal Dr. Mottie/Westbam "Sunshine." Hyper's own high-quality work matches anything here, notably the slap bass "Slapper." And then there's PMT, BLIM, Timo Maas...Right, the beats are superb. So next time, either bug artists to keep one-line repeater tracks like Spork "Freek Like Me," Oakenfold "Starry Eyed Surprise" and Ils "Music" from mucking up the stellar work underneath, or get some decent lyrics like the (lone exception) PFN "Beautiful Day." That is all. Disc 1: 3 stars Disc 2: 4 stars."