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Terranova | Hitchhiking Nonstop With No Particual Destination

Not quite what you'd expect from a bunch of B-boys
CD, !K7/Zomba

Tekst: Dave Roozendaal

Publicatiedatum: 22 november 2002

The Berlin Terranova crew returns with their second album on !K7, albeit without their founding member Kaos, who apparently was too busy recording his own solo album. Hitchhiking... sounds quite a bit rougher than its predecessor Close the Door, with bigger basslines and harder (hip-hop) beats, which is clear right from the start (the chemical-sounding instrumental 'Concepts'). Second track 'Equal Rights' features Ariane of the legendary new wave/punk outfit The Slits on vocals, inna ragga-ish stylee over, again, razorsharp hip-hop beats. She returns on the track 'Mongrel', mixing a no wave-feel with fierce ragga toasting. Other guest vocalists are Stereo MC singer and long-time Terranova collaborator Cath Coffey, dressed-up partly as a robot on 'Breathe' and the Shuggie Otis cover 'Out of My Head', and New York poet Mike Ladd, whose powerful voice spices up 'Sublime' and spits out his ever-critical view on today's western society in 'Heroes'. Another cover is 'Running Away' - a Bob Marley song made unrecognisable with Prince's 'Bob George' beat, Curesque guitar licks and an overall Joy Division-feel. The last song on the album is 'Goodbye the Ferrari', a very garage-y guitar stomper with vocoder voices and a handful bleeps and bloings.
Not quite what you'd expect from a bunch of B-boys, eh? Which makes this record even more enjoyable than it already was.

http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/terranova/hitchhiking-nonstop-with-no-particual-destination/2078/
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