Basehead : Rolling Stone

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Not in Kansas Anymore

It's got a good beat, but you can't dance to it. Like Play With Toys, Basehead's first album, Not in Kansas Anymore is an unlikely sonic mishmash, a melting pot of musical styles under which no flame burns. The ingredients – broken rhythm & blues, stinky rock, big pieces of fat funk, borderline...

1993 RS: 4of 5 Stars

1992

Biography

Featuring a scratching DJ and spoken-sung vocals by group leader Michael Ivey, Basehead defied simple categorization. Ivey mumbled or sleepily crooned his wryly ironic lyrics over quirky, quietly rockish arrangements in a hip-hop/college rock hybrid critics termed "slacker rap," while comparing Ivey to Lou Reed, Tom Waits, and Sly Stone.

A middle-class black kid who grew up learning guitar, Ivey...

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