About this item

La Rat steps up to the center circle with a collection of funk and soul-soaked loops and bars, soundtracks for a late night drive through a rainy city. The La Rat aesthetic weaves wider than a drunken cyclist on a busy gracht, delivering ripostes to the status quo across eight tracks, with nods to psych and blues, jazz and latin. The resulting beat collages then laid the foundations for a flurry of outer-limits raps, beamed in from the mind of a cut ‘n’ paste lyricist. The collaborative duo take inspiration from such varying sources as Georgia O’Keeffe, MC Hellshit and DJ Carhouse, Pauline Oliveros, and Rammellzee, and end up reclaiming a slice of hip-hop’s supercharged universe for themselves.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: A heady brew of benzo-rap, old school head nodders and really experimental sound design stirred in a pot of red lined analogue production and tape saturation. Fronted by an MC who sounds like the female version of Wiki (Ratking), only even more opiated and scuzzed up. An incredible and singular slice of leftfield hip-hop.

TRACK LISTING

La Rat
Crab Dish
Rodent Scavenger
Problems
Dribble
Metal
Puppet Show
New Suns