Future Rapper "Land of a Thousand Rappers Vol. 1: Fall of the Pillars" (Asthmatic Kitty)

If you've been listening to rap and house music for a decent amount of time it's
really easy to wonder where in the world Carmen SanDiego is anymore? We've been
to the edge of the globe and back again several times. We've remixed. We've seen
covers of remixes of mashups. We've heard hasidic rap and blinged out pakistani soul
rockers beeping for installations of stone cold beeflings. We've watched hard house come
and go and come again. We've seen minimalist drill spittle reissued. Golden ages.
Backpackers vs. backpatters. Cassette tapes, mp3s, and then cassette tapes again!

So I guess what I'm getting at is... what's left? (Plenty of course.)

And here we go... just over the last year or so comes spilling in Dan Deacon's
"Spiderman of the Rings" and Future Rapper's "Land of a Thousand Rappers..." (Future
Rapper is largely the brain child of Soul Junk member Slo-ro.)

Here's the 10 word version:

Deacon is to house/electro as Future Rapper is to hip-hop/rap.

That's almost the best way I can explain this record. (With another record you may or
may not have heard.)

Here's the top 10 version:

1. Ecstatic
2. Everything but the kitchen sink
3. The kitchen sink remixed
4. Letterist critique of the illbient movement through biblical smell offs
5. Kant
6. Noise vs. parody verses
7. Has anybody ever used an email for lyrics?
8. What does it all mean? vs. "Are you my sister?"
9. A duet of both soap operas and operas of soap where the dirty mouths of our
contemporary society, the true bling tossers chairing megacorporations, get thoroughly
lathered and rinsed.
10. Yeah, so... uh... like... free rap

Bottom line (there had to be one right?)... it's a wild listen. The lyrics are ALL over
the place. Automatic writing with bumper cars? Sounds right. Songs with samples that
switch nearly every other phrase to match. Bombastic as it is lovely at times. Noise
with triumphant guitar swell breaks. Dense audio philosophy that is onto something.
Just proves that there's always cracks to spelunk. Those things that open up into the
horizon above much to our suprise.

Rating: 8/10