Two Fingers – Two Fingers

Genre:??? Electronic, Hip Hop
Style:??? Breaks, Grime, IDM, Dubstep, Electro, Experimental
Year:??? 2009

Tracklist:
01 – Straw Men (feat. Sway)
02 – Whatuknowabout (feat. Sway)
03 – Better Get That (feat. Ms. Jade)
04 – Two Fingers (feat. Sway)
05 – That Girl (feat. Sway)
06 – Keman Rhythm
07 – Jewels & Gems (feat. Sway)
08 – Bad Girl (feat. Ce’Cile)
09 – High Life
10 – Doing My Job (feat. Ms. Jade)
11 – Not Perfect (feat. Sway)
12 – Moth Rhythm

由于前一阵儿瞎逼折腾，忘了关注Ninaj Tune，并且数据库没鼓捣明白，所以一直也没“发片”。刚才突然发现Amon Tobin跟一个叫Joe Chapman的人组了个Two Fingers。还在今年跟Big Dada发了一张同名专辑Two Fingers，据说还火的挺厉害，不知道大家伙儿是冲着Amon Tobin去的还是真的很带劲？

不知道哥儿姐儿几个听了没有，我先给发出来，有啥马后炮之后再说吧。

Release Note：

Imagine if Timbaland were kidnapped and held hostage in a council flat in Tottenham. Imagine then, that elite robot agents aligned to the New World Order were sent into rescue him with laser cannons little knowing that the kidnappers were in fact an underground cell of benefit-cheat Jedi. Imagine hip hop recapturing the sheer brutality of classic-era Public Enemy without it becoming a retread. Imagine if “urban” music was made not for the charts but the heart. Imagine “Two Fingers”.

Two Fingers are Brazilian beat-adventurer Amon Tobin and Joe “Doubleclick” Chapman. The pair met when Tobin lived in Brighton and bonded over an interest in music that ran way beyond the boundaries of “electronica”. In Montreal they applied production techniques associated with UK styles like drum & bass to the template of hip hop. It was an experiment with explosive results. MOBO-winner Sway (now signed to Akon’s Konvict label in the US) heard what was brewing he was so taken with it, he flew straight out to Montreal and recorded seven tracks with them, showing a harsher, more serious side to his personality whilst offering wry social commentary on everything from the way young Black men are treated (”What You Know”) to crazy girls who do too many pills (”That Girl”). The remaining rhythms were voiced by sometime Missy protégé Ms Jade and dancehall legend Ce’Cile. A couple of instrumental rhythms were added and this, first stage of a continuing project, was complete.

“Two Fingers” is a project unlike anything that any of the three main players has ever made before, a unique, utterly uncompromising, brutal and beautiful record that could only have grown out of the UK and the internationalism of those involved. If it’s not hip hop as we know it, then nor is it drum & bass or grime. Like all the best music it transcends genre to stand on its own icy, transcendent, brilliant.