Hey guys, Dimxsk again. Things are a bit chaotic for T and I, so what we're gonna do for today is post the post originally scheduled for Friday the 5th, before we decided we each needed to weigh in on the revolution going down in our home country and X-Man revealed some serious lack of insight on race relations. Both of us are busy this week, so we figured we'd just let this be an extra serving of dope music.
Here it is, the unreleased post from 6/05:
So some of you may be familiar with Eric McIntyre, also known in the Canadian hip hop scene as EMC (no not these guys, although they're very dope in a very different way). He's got a solo release To Whom it May Concern dating back to 2006, but is probably most recently well known for his work with Hermitofthewoods as Higher State who's first album dropped in 2017 on Endemik Music, and is not an album to missed. An emcee, producer and beatboxer from Nova Scotia, EMC makes a particular brand of rock and protest folk influenced old school style hip hop that I've always enjoyed.
Three Sheet is probably the most ambitious of the projects he's involved in, and attempts to do, with varying degrees of success, something that to my knowledge has never been done before. Their band consists of live instruments, a rapper (Expedyte) and a female vocalist along with all percussion and turntable sounds created through EMC's beatboxing on the mic. I say with varying degrees of success because while I find myself enjoying almost all of their songs, sometimes the lack of real percussive "oomph" usually created via breaks or live drums is conspicuously absent.
Three Sheet has three full length albums, with In Circulation and Heart to Make it Perfect both fairly easy to find online. This album, Sheet Music is not. This is a shame because it seems that lead rapper Expedyte agrees with me about the issues encountered with their studio recordings of beatboxing, and so this is their one and only album recorded live, off the floor. The result is a much fuller sound, with every instrument seeming to hit harder and with a stronger energy overall that does the beatbox percussion a bit more credit. It still doesn't always quite work, but what it lacks in presentation it often makes up for in sheer audacity and creative energy.
For any of you who already have their first release In Circulation, you may recognize some of the songs featured here, but they are universally better sounding with this new arrangement. The rest of the tracks are original and cannot to my knowledge be found anywhere else, and the result is a fairly solid album of bold experimentation and very decent songwriting.
So with that enjoy Sheet Music, and thanks for being there with UGF to reach our 150th post last week! You guys kick ass.
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