Releasedate: 16.05.06
Radioinactive's new album features his most robust production and skillful lyrics yet - an electro-rap masterpiece. "It's not a concept album, but it's conceptual," says Radioinactive, who together with producer/engineer Gideon Zaretsky have concocted a head-nodding and quirky world from far-fetched sources. Among them: a giant synthesizer from 1975, an interactive robot from 1978, a soundtrack composed by a cult leader in 1982, a drunk storyteller from 1979, and rhymes written on the back of a Mayan calendar in the year 2012 - these are just some of the elements that make Soundtrack to a Book. Guesting on the record are Shapeshifters' DJ and longtime Radioinactive collaborator LA JAE and producer Eliot Lipp (Hefty Records, Eastern Developments).
Soundtrack to a Book is not a soundtrack or a book.
Radioinactive is a one man cult. He formed the Log Cabin Crew with (pre-Living Legends) Murs, Eligh and Scarab and the seminal West Coast Workforce with Subtitle (GSL). He has been a core member of left-field hip hop pioneers The Shapeshifters since the mid-90's and can be heard most recently on their Cornerstone R.A.S. label release Shapeshifters Was Here (2005). He joined the Mush Records roster to release: Pyramidi (2001; The Weather (2003), collaboration with Busdriver (Ninja Tune, Epitaph) and Free Kamal (2004) with producer Anti MC.
For the first time, a best-selling novel adapted into a novel album.
The album's cover art depicts a young Radio with his 8 track playing droid, 2-XL. There's a lot about Soundtrack to a Book that's tongue in cheek - but Radioinactive transcends his own irony to intuitively impart some kind of off-beat wisdom to the listener. Rediscovering old techniques and making them new again is central. Who wouldn't trade in their PSP for a 2-XL? Radioinactive would.
Soundtrack to a Book is not a book on tape, but rather a tape on book.
Glaube aber kaum dass der albumtechnisch was reißen kann, auch wenn sich die Beschreibung oben ja eigentlich recht interessant anhört...
