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| Release: | Dimension Tide |
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| Media: | [Audio CD] | | Released: | 2005 [ Listen to HHH from this era on Spotify ] |
| Recordlabel: | ESeye Music |
| Info: | 1. Intro
2. Can't Lie
3. Fragile Leaves - featuring Playdough
4. Operation Restoration
5. Redesigned
6. Famous Lovers - featuring Ruffian, Wonder Brown and Mouf
Warren.
7. Curse Or A Cure? - featuring JustMe
8. Snake Eyes
9. Roll With The Punches
10. We To Do (remix) - featuring JustMe and
Sintax.the.terrific. |
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| | Review: | Written by Conduct Lionhardt
Tuesday, 15 August 2006
Cas Metah - Dimension Tide
(Indie)
Receiving CAS METAH's EP, "Dimension Tide" in the mail, I
found myself looking forward to a wonderful experience. CAS
is an artist that I'd heard a scarce few tracks from here
and there and, with this being my first exposure to him on
an entire project, I was really into hearing him stretch his
rap muscles.
Upon peeping that it was 10 tracks, though, I remembered my
brother's adage about albums of 10 tracks or less, "In 10
tracks, you can't have room for any errors."
Cautiously, I placed the disc into my stereo…
The album opens with one of my favorite intro's to date,
with CAS allowing his young brother Scot Haney to run amok
on a microphone saying whatever he wanted and introducing
his big brother as CAS METAH. From there we're launched
into the single bust "Can't Lie" produced by JustMe. It
brings a smile to the face as the soul sample opens up for
CAS' bravado about his rhyme skills and his crew,
Scribbling Idiots.
After that we find ourselves dipping into the Freddie Bruno
produced, "Fragile Leaves", which also features Playdough
on a rare singing feature as CAS speaks on the human
condition and how we sometimes don't fess up to the Babylon
state of the world.
The next track spirals the listener into "Operation
Restoration", which retails two times in history that God
has sought to restore the order to his creation, first with
the Flood and Noah, then the second time with Jesus Christ
death on the cross. This track features a chorus sung by a
guy named 2-Tone who proves to be a lackluster to this
reviewer. He has an odd vocal tone that leaves him sadly
between Nate Dogg and Elias. 4th Command's beat and CAS
make the track even with the chorus mis-step, though.
"Redesigned" opens up a romantic sounding Mattman
production as CAS speaks on his life and how he began moving
from being sinful to seeking to be sinless. Tara Kennedy
handles this sung hook, sounding slightly shaky as if it
were her first recording yet, after a second listen I found
her to be less bothersome than when I first heard her.
"Famous Lovers" with features from fellow Scribbling
Idiots (Wonder Brown, Ruffian, and Mouf Warren) is a
masterful stroke on the lyrical tip but, once again, strikes
out on the hook with an almost abrasive hook that doesn't
accomadate the level the emcees bust from verse to verse. I
found myself skipping past it on every listen, cause the
track was good and the Panik beat was nice.
"Curse or Cure" featuring JustMe sounds like a missing
track from the duos collab album and holds up very well on
this disc and begins the albums swing back into the level of
"good". CAS and JustMe do well together and match the Dj
Frantic beat well, with its tight violin sample.
"Snake Eyes" ends up being my favorite track on this album
as CAS METAH flips into storytelling mode ("there something
Jan don't know/ Ray has some bad habits/ no he's not a
gambler or a crack addict/") about and up, then down,
relationship between a woman of faith and a young man who's
a liar ("But Ray likes to lie/ Ray likes to cheat/ alibi
after alibi, conceit-deceived/ succeeding defeat by lying in
the eyes of diamond whose priceless/ comprised by the
righteous, divine like Dionysis"). Mattman really impresses
me with the beat that captures in its essence the potent
emotion of the tale that CAS weaves until ("Then one day,
all of a sudden/ Conviction hit Jan so hard it rendered her
with a spiritual concussion") a close by Theory Hazit's
trained cuts on the 1s and 2s.
"Roll With The Punches" is produced by Dust and CAS floats
on it like you'd expect someone too. Its definitely another
gem on this project as CAS tells it like it is and even
comes off somewhat like Dust partner, Manchild in his
delivery.
Finally, Theory Hazit serves up a remix of "We To Do"
featuring JustMe and the incorrigible Sintax the Terrific.
The track is stellar on the lyrical levels, as one would
expect, but Theory's heavy baseline proved somewhat
distracting to this reviewer to a point I had to disable the
bass on my stereo as well as turn down the volume. With a
slightly less robust bass volume, the track proves highly
entertaining as well as offering a classic Sintax verse.
My brother's statement, however, proves to be true as the
missteps in a few hooks bogs down the album that, on the
whole in terms of beats and lyrics, could have been a
stellar EP, making anticipation for the upcoming LP, "Guest
Room" palpable. Instead it leaves you hoping that the LP
ends up being a continued step forward for the most
outspoken member of the Scribbling Idiots crew.
For fans of: Scribbling Idiots, JustMe, Deepspace5,
Sintax,the.terrific, Sev Statik, Stu Dent, Mars ILL
3.5 of 5 stars | | source: Sphereofhiphop.com, added: Aug 17, 2006 |  |
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