Bidnezz:Machine Drum

Title: Bidnezz

Label: Merck

Genre: trip-hop

Rating: 6.8 of 7

Don’t you hate when you love this amazing artist because you have never heard of anyone like them before, then some new guy comes around and takes the sound you like so much and takes it to the next level. You will always like that first artist, but now you find yourself reaching for the new album instead. This is the relationship between Prefuse 73 (one of my favorite artists) and Machine Drum (the new guy). Bidnezz is an hour of amazing trip-hop straight from the pages of Scott Herren’s journal. Merck’s flagship artist at only 22, Travis Stewart takes characteristics of hip-hop, glitch, house and soul to create a sound that is as accepted in a club as much as it would be in a late night coffee house. This is a damn fine instrumental album that I proudly place in between my Prefuse 73 and Squarepusher albums.

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