Beauty And The Beat

Description

Rapper, DJ, producer, and passionate vinyl collector, Edan Portnoy has built a unique reputation on the independent hip-hop scene by combining an encyclopedic knowledge of music from the 1960s and 1970s with a decidedly experimental approach to sampling. With Beauty and the Beat, his second album, he composes and produces all the tracks, blending psychedelia, funk, garage rock, and old school hip-hop into a sound collage of remarkable coherence. Driven by tracks like Funky Voltron, I See Colours, Beauty, and Promised Land, featuring contributions from Mr. Lif, Percee P, Insight, and Dagha, the album is now considered one of the major works of independent rap from the 2000s, praised for its sonic boldness and deeply personal approach to production.