Urban Shocker

General | Aug 2004

Reviews

stirling
Reviewed 2004-10-04
Excellent sample-art trip hop and electronica. All sounds found on the recording were recorded live on the streets of NYC. However, this is not a gimmick, as the end result is not an obvious sum of the parts. This is the real deal. For the fans of Matmos, People Like Us, Prefuse 73. -stirling

(((1))) Street vocal samples and street sounds looped in an irregular fashion that evolves to emulate the effect of walking down a busy change.
((2)) Beat make from street sounds (a la Stomp, but more artistic) Nice interspersing vocal samples.
3) Spoken word about baseball along with samples of children. (under 1 minute long!)
4) Crunchy beats, various notes create a basic melody.
((5)) ** FCC’s ** Hip hop! Beat made from horse hooves.
6) Another street collage with a heavy emphasis on bus sounds and horns.
7) vocals listing off where they are.
8) buzzing sounds, birds, swirl around.
9) A good light beat made with clicking sounds with long chords of music (how’d they sample that?)
10) short song playing with vocal samples (under 1 min long!)
((11))) **FCC “pissed”** hip hop! Great beat and lyrics.

Recent airplay

Let Me Show You Somethin
Cognitive OverloadAug 17, 2006
Let Me Show You Somethin
Mike's ApproximationNov 12, 2004
We Dont Have Much Time
Umami Jazz ProgramNov 04, 2004
The Ballad of Urban Shocker
Baptism of SolitudeOct 22, 2004
We Dont Have Much Time
Not the City Council!Oct 11, 2004
Your Body Gets Used Tuit
Oh Messy LifeOct 10, 2004

Charting

2004-10-04 — 2004-12-06
Week EndingAirplays
Nov 14 1
Nov 7 1
Oct 24 1
Oct 17 2
Oct 10 3

Track listing

1. We Dont Have Much Time
2. Your Body Gets Used Tuit
3. The Ballad of Urban Shocker
4. The Fake Mccoy
5. Sucka Watch
6. Rebar
7. D.U.M.B
8. Trash Processional
9. Let Me Show You Somethin
10. Micro-Phonics
11. The Urinal Song