Lapsed & Nonnon is Jason Stevens and Dave Madden and āThe Death Of Convenienceā is their third release. A sleeve with ugly artwork and unreadable typing in too many different fonts contains a disc with a mixture of hiphop, electro and turntablism. So expect many samples and a lot of scratching, some MCās, here and there a danceable tracks with sometimes electrobeats and now and then industrial like thumping, including some funny intermezzos.
After a way too lengthy intro, Buck Dexter gets behind the microphone and immediately we hear the comparison to the catchy music of Mothboy: industrial like electro and a slick MC. Also āSurgeā is a nice industrial-like dance track which keeps thumping interestingly. No wonder that this āSurgeā is presented in a Mothboy remix at the end of this release. In āAdnoiseamā we get an explanation about what kind of album this is and why the label definitely wonāt release it: somewhat childish, but still a bit funny. āGod Is A Glitchā is a real hiphop track with minimal musical influences and a lot of attention paid to the raps of Nongenetic, Subtitle and Bleubird. Songs like āRainy Day Paradeā are good electro/turntablism tracks and show us the musical know-how of the two gentlemen Stevens and Madden. The closing track is a creation of Mothboy, who brings us a remix of āSurgeā, which he funnily introduces on the voicemail of the both gentlemen.Ā
The album of Lapsed & Nonnon is interesting, but a bit too calm and easy and well-produced for my taste. Halfway through the album I lose my concentration and there are too much rappers in my opinion. Some is fun on an album as this, but too much is simply too much. A better variation between interesting instrumental tracks and raptracks would make the music of Lapsed & Nonnon more interesting to listen to. For a next release I suggest these gentlemen to ask label companions like Mothboy for some help more often.
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