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 Station
Best Friend Ever
Best Friend Ever is not a breath of fresh air.
It is not a new, bar-setting record or an attempt to cross genres and make a new sound "cause no one’s tried it before."
This is hip-hop. This is an artist being honest, earnest, and truthful. This is Eric Goodman, AKA Station.
Across the album's twenty tracks, there are recurring elements that define Station's sound, the most obvious being the extensive use of
1970-era electric guitar, stuttering Rhodes attacks, 1950's horn
sections, and time-compressed female vocal drones.
Making it a rule to
use only samples from 1958 through 1982, Station is anything but lazy.
His minimalist drum programming is a compliment to the instrumentation he lays on top. He isn't cutting and pasting a couple of
measures over breaks. You can tell he takes his time to make sure every
piece of percussion is evenly matched to precise sample cuts and
poignant bass lines played with a “crappy Costco keyboard.”
Because of this attention to detail, Best Friend Ever never loses the listener's focus.
It’s like that party in your head that goes on in the coffee shop line – the anticipation of what’s coming next.
In a nutshell, Station just might be the Sacramento hip-hop scene's new best friend ever.
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Re: Sation: Sacramento`s New BFF
thieugiavotinh December 18th, 2011 - 4:39 PM
It is not a new
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thieugiavotinh December 19th, 2011 - 1:49 PM
They also frequently popped up in my "bands you may also like" recommendations on various music websites. I finally succumbed and listened to the band’s album, Union, in April of 2010 and damn if the computer wasn't right. I do like them. In fact, I was embarrassed that I hadn’t already bought everything the band had released.
Boxcar Rebellion's music reminds me of a modern day Peter Gabriel with sounds and vocals churning around a rhythm ranging from a cathartic undulating to a testosterone-driven schoolyard fight. And I'm in absolute awe of the voice of Nathan Nicholson. His ability to take words and vocally attach them to the emotional center of the brain is the best in the business. ( If you own all the Radiohead, all the Editors, all the Doves albums and think your music collection is complete in this genre, you are very mistaken.)
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thieugiavotinh December 21st, 2011 - 1:10 PM
Tonight at the High Dive, former members of Tad and Murder City Devils will inhabit the space in front of the stage to deliver heavy doses of psychedelic rock. Their band, the Annunaki, headline our monthly Four on the Floor show.
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