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  • Summary: This latest installment in Thirsty Ear's Blue Series of progressive/experimental jazz recordings is the work of turntablist DJ Spooky (Tha' Subliminal Kid), whose own mixing, bass, and kalimba are joined by jazz notables such as Matthew Shipp, Guillermo Barreto Brown, William Parker, and Medeski, Martin & Wood's Billy Martin.… Expand

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  1. Positive: 11 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 14
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  1. Entertainment Weekly
    91
    Morphs subtly between hip-hop abstraction and unalloyed free-improv exploration. [Listen 2 This supplement, Aug 2002, p.23]
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  2. Alternative Press
    90
    A cohesive, 100-percent successful record. [Oct 2002, p.95]
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  3. Urb
    60
    A complex, avant-garde amalgamation of styles for only the most adventurous ears. [Aug 2002, p.116]
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  1. PaulG.
    9
    A killer transition for That Subliminal Kid from a dubwise to a jazzy illbient work.
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