hip-hop and sludge

General Patton vs the X-Ecutioners
General Patton is Mike Patton, you may remember him from Faith No More. Nowadays he makes records as Fantamos, runs Ipecac records and does strange records with Bjork. The X-Ecutioners are a group of turntablists who make instrumental hip-hop music. This collaboration is more cohesive than I was expecting, Mike Patton is very much at the forefront of experimentalisation as far as vocalists go, quite often he acts more like a turntable than a singer. Probably best if you listen to the posted track to see what I mean. A thoroughly fascinating CD.

MP3: ¡Vaqueros y Indios! (Joint Special Operations Task Force)

SunnO))) - White 2
How the hell to descibe this? Try to imagine heavy metal stripped of all it's unnecessary parts - strip out the drums, the vocals, just leave 'the riff'. Now slow that down to the point where the difference between notes is so far apart that any sort of melody is removed. Now add a sprinkling of mysticism and shamanism into the mix and your almost there. Awesome CD

MP3: HELL-O)))-WEEN