Greatest Hits by Rap Class

Dropping Gems is proud to present a long time project that’s finally come to fruition: Rap Class’ Greatest Hits. This journey into sample-chopping takes the practice to a place it doesn’t often go, a next-level of unyielding sideways angles and pyramidal inversions. Created on an all-hardware set-up over a period of years, Greatest Hits harkens back to a deeply personal time in Rap Class’ life, an unmediated period of innocence “when the dopest electronic music I heard was in a Dockers commercial or in a trailer for a movie,” as he puts it. While genre labels could apply to any of the tracks, the music is the product of a singular electronic voice, one that few, if any, other producers could even attempt to reproduce. Encapsulated in each track is a sense of irrepressible restlessness, change in its rawest form, and a willingness to jump forward, backward, or to either side whenever required. The work also captures a fascinating middle ground between pre-internet and post-internet sensibilities, an image of music with only one purpose: itself.

XLR8R: http://www.xlr8r.com/mp3/2012/08/brothers-superhero
Dublab: http://dublab.com/rap-class-when-youre-with-a-girl/
Live For The Funk: http://www.liveforthefunk.com/recent/post/rap-class-greatest-hits/
FRSH SLCTS: http://www.freshselects.net/rap-class-greatest-hits-one-word

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