and, i'm going to pop an obligatory influential in, here, too.
this record is another lost classic, in it's merging of the various historical chicago sounds - industrial, yes, but also a lot of hip-hop and a lot of jazz, along with a bit of a punk perspective. excepting the fact that the wax trax sound was obviously influential on reznor, saying it sounds like nin is really pretty much wrong. it sounds more like a mash-up of miles davis and the beastie boys, and could reasonably be seen as a substantial forerunner to flying lotus - that's certainly more of the right genre, anyways. the thing is that that genre didn't really exist in 1995. it's one of those examples of a very forward thinking disc going over everybody's heads and being forgotten. that happened a lot in the 90s.....so often, that it seems like people stopped making forward-thinking discs, because it was just going to go over everybody's heads.
i've been struggling to figure out where i was approaching the track from, lyrically. i've never listened to a lot of hip-hop, but i was definitely listening to a lot of die warzau. the record hits similar themes of being "liberated" from the political spectrum. so, i think this record is probably about the right thing to cite in terms of the unusual beat-boxing in the track.
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