Ain’t no better way to celebrate beats than that twilight bump. Fist swaying like the car in yo living room. Samples fucking with your nod, but only enhancing the energy it’s already been giving you. At first glace, it looks like Paul Hares’ The Definitive Works cassette is only about 30 minutes, but dear beat-head: it’s a full hour. You think Dirty Tapes would ever do you bad like that? BLESS NAH!!! The skinny is The Definitive Works is the complete collection of Hares’ tapes since 2012, featuring bumpers To Chew the Fat, NT WRK IIB, Muddy Cocktail, and Internal Dialogue, including unreleased singles that warp your thinking like a National Geographic collage poster of just about every green picture they ever printed. World Music fans? Well, to consider Hare “World Music” is a stretch, but the dude is from a small industrial city of the former USSR (famous for its Nuclear Power Station catastrophes), Balakovo, Russia. As if Sheepshead Bay weren’t already rampant with Russian CD beat-heads on the boom-bap, Paul Hares keeps it straight up West Asian, grinding on that reel-pull manipulation, incorporating heavy drones and sounds akin to industrial overload. Scope the video above of “Loop Flaw” to wipe the crust out ya eyes, and/or enjoy snippets of Paul Hares’ The Definitive Works below:
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