Hip Hop for Dishwashers Scumballs and Upstarts is the long awaited follow up from Smaze, half the duo behind “Enki Dus Mono” released in mid 2000 on Hefty Records, under the Beneath Autumn Sky moniker. For those who had given up waiting for further BAS offerings in the years since 2000, this release is highly anticipated and long overdue. This time it is Smaze himself, under the new moniker Sheveks Masada, the first release on the newly formed - Abandon Building label. A vinyl only pressing, with four distinctly different offerings over 27 minutes, it is an instrumental and lo-fi beat mural - moody, and melodic. The breaks are deeply woven through a meditative landscape, dotted with samples tinged of paranoia from sci-fi movies of old. Differing from previous work – and unable to be pinned to a particular style, it is Smaze’s special talent to work within a beat driven framework, across all forms of jazz and electronica, which makes the sound truly his own.
Dan Collins |
