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Chet Betz

:: A focus on the city’s hip-hop, a once burgeoning underground fountainhead for putting out excellent, slept-on Midwest shit.


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Chet Betz

:: Much like soul singers let their vocals explore their interpretation of a song's feeling, Andre uses his rapping to make his words glow.


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Chet Betz
Associate Editor, Turkey Sandwich Enthusiast

e-mail: chet@cokemachineglow.com

Record Reviews:
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Time Machine :: Life Is Expensive
(Glow in the Dark; 2008)Sinkane :: Color Voice
(Emergency Umbrella; 2008)Dirt Dress :: Theme Songs EP (NBH)
(Papermade; 2008)Boris :: Smile
(Southern Lord; 2008)Flying Lotus :: Reset EP
(Warp; 2007)
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13 & God :: 13 & God 90 Day Men :: Panda Park Ai Aso :: Chamomile Pool Ai Aso/Wata :: She's So Heavy EP Anchors for Architects :: Dirty Settlements (NBH) AZ :: A.W.O.L. AZ :: The Format Erykah Badu :: New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War Bald Eagle :: Hot Shoulders Bark Psychosis :: Codename: Dustsucker Battles :: EP C / B EP Battles :: Mirrored Victor Bermon :: Arriving at Night (NBH) Beyonce :: B'day Black Fiction :: Ghost Ride Black Milk :: Popular Demand Bloc Party :: Silent Alarm Blueprint :: Chamber Music Blueprint :: 1988 Boom Bip :: Corymb Boom Bip :: Blue Eyed in the Red Room Boris :: Pink Boris :: Smile Califone :: Heron King Blues Califone :: Roots and Crowns Cinemechanica :: The Martial Arts CocoRosie :: Le Maison de Mon Reve Count Bass D :: Begborrowsteel The Deadly Snakes :: Porcella Death Cab for Cutie :: Plans Destroyer :: Streethawk: A Seduction (OF) Destroyer :: Destroyer's Rubies Kathy Diamond :: Miss Diamond to You Diddy :: Press Play Dirt Dress :: Theme Songs EP (NBH) DJ JS-1 and DUB-L/Tony Touch :: Claimstake/Piecemaker 2 DJ Rels :: Theme for a Broken Soul DJ Signify :: Sleep No More Dose One :: Skeleton Repellent Enon :: Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds Feist :: The Reminder Flying Lotus :: Reset EP Flying Lotus :: 1983 (NBH) Fog :: 10th Avenue Freakout Fog :: Ditherer Foreign Exchange :: Connected Foundry Field Recordings :: Prompts/Miscues (NBH) Foundry Field Recordings :: Fallout Stations The Game :: Doctor's Advocate Ghostface :: The Pretty Toney Album Greenhouse Effect :: Columbus or Bust Greenhouse Effect :: Greenhouse Effect vs. Radiohead EP Handsome Boy Modeling School :: White People Hi-Red Center :: Architectural Failures Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark (CP) Ill Poetic :: The World is Ours Illogic :: Celestial Clockwork Illogic & DJ Przm :: Off the Clock Illogic :: Write to Death 2: The Missing Pieces Insight :: Blast Radius J Dilla :: Donuts Jel :: Soft Money Joe Beats :: Diverse Recourse Jurassic 5 :: Feedback Kelis :: Kelis Was Here Les Savy Fav :: Inches Jamie Lidell :: Multiply Low :: The Great Destroyer Loretta Lynn :: Van Lear Rose Mash Out Posse :: Mash Out Posse Masta Ace :: Long Hot Summer Masta Killa :: No Said Date Masta Killa :: Made in Brooklyn Med :: Push Comes to Shove Marissa Nadler :: Songs III: Bird on the Water Nas :: Hip Hop is Dead Noah 23 :: Jupiter Sajitarius Odd Nosdam :: Burner Oh No :: The Disrupt One Be Lo :: The Rebirth Organized Konfusion :: Stress: The Extinction Agenda (OF) Pedestrian :: Volume One: unIndian Songs Pedro :: You, Me & Everyone Pharoahe Monch :: Desire Plantlife :: The Return of Jack Splash The Ponys :: Celebration Castle Prince Po :: The Slickness Quasimoto :: The Further Adventures of Lord Quas Radicalfashion :: Odori Radiohead :: In Rainbows (CP) Rapider Than Horsepower :: Stage Fright, Stage Fright/This Is My Big Night The Red Giants :: The Red Giants (NBH) Rich Boy :: Rich Boy Rodan :: Theophany: The Book of Elevations Rondo Brothers :: No Time Left on Earth Roots Manuva :: Awfully Deep Seam :: The Problem With Me (OF) Secret Machines :: Now Here is Nowhere Sin Ropas :: Fire Prizes Single Frame :: Body/End/Basement Sinkane :: Color Voice Sole :: Live from Rome Soul Position :: Things Go Better With RJ and Al The Stairs :: On Sleep Lab (NBH) Styrofoam :: Nothing's Lost Subtle :: A New White Sunset Rubdown :: Shut Up I Am Dreaming Swan Lake :: Beast Moans Television Personalities :: And Don't the Kids Just Love It (OF) Theodore Unit :: 718 Timbaland :: Shock Value Time Machine :: Life Is Expensive Time Machine :: Slow Your Roll (NBH) Time Machine :: TM Radio Velella Velella :: The Bay of Biscay (NBH) Viktor Vaughn :: VV2: Venomous Villain Kanye West :: College Dropout Kanye West :: Late Registration Kanye West :: Graduation Wolves in the Throne Room :: Two Hunters Woven Hand :: Consider the Birds Wu-Tang Clan :: 8 Diagrams Xiu Xiu :: Fabulous Muscles Zero Star :: Forever's Never Really That Long (NBH)

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Edan :: Beauty and the Beat OutKast :: Idlewild Pantha Du Prince :: This Bliss Subtle :: For Hero : For Fool
[↓top rated albums of 2008 by this author] /
Erykah Badu :: New Amerykah, Part One: 4th World War
(Motown; 2008) / Rating: 87 / Combined Rating: 85 Dirt Dress :: Theme Songs EP (NBH)
(Papermade; 2008) / Rating: 84 / Combined Rating: 79 Sinkane :: Color Voice
(Emergency Umbrella; 2008) / Rating: 75 / Combined Rating: N/A Boris :: Smile
(Southern Lord; 2008) / Rating: 74 / Combined Rating: 74 Time Machine :: Life Is Expensive
(Glow in the Dark; 2008) / Rating: 70 / Combined Rating: N/A Hot Chip :: Made in the Dark (CP)
(Astralwerks; 2008) / Rating: 69 / Combined Rating: 65