Double Cup
by DJ Rashad
  • Record Label: Hyperdub
  • Release Date: Oct 22, 2013
User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
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  1. rhp2014
    May 21, 2014
    6
    RIP. This guy had potential. Real sad he's gone. A really solid album. I'm still bumping this LP to this day after its initial release. Not a whole lot, but revisiting it after his news of his death it's better on my 6th or so listen than my first few were when it first came out.
  2. adhamhany
    Nov 6, 2013
    7
    A good album overall. Great mixing and production by DJ Rashad. I just wish the rest of the album was as brilliant as the first four tracks. Unfortunately it isn't, which makes me a little disappointed as it could have been much better.

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Metascore
79

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 13
  3. Negative: 0 out of 13
  1. The Quietus
    Dec 12, 2013
    80
    Emerging as an outgrowth of Chicago house music, the principle formula is one that combines bubbling 808s and low end with angular snare patterns and looped snatches of vocal samples. It can often prove a jarring prospect in the first instance, but DJ Rashad’s Double Cup is a coherent and appealing starting point for the curious.
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  2. AllMusic
    Dec 11, 2013
    80
    Everything seems to be malfunctioning on the album, and yet, Rashad loves the genres he borrows from so much, he can't ignore the solid grip of acid house ("Acid Bit") or the sweet slide of R&B ("She a Go"). These sparking satellites all remain in their respective groove's orbit, making Double Cup footwork's most sensible and revisit-worthy album to date.
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  3. The Wire
    Dec 10, 2013
    80
    Something about the music's rhythmic flexibility, the paradoxical slippage between half-speed, double-speed and triplet grooves, allows almost anything to be folded in to its matrix without altering its essential character. [Oct 2013, p.57]
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