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I would say they would be exhausted if they sang the usual songs of Dalla & Bennato. Instead, they are 50 years old and remain rooted in peculiar, experimental music that is very alternative to the usual stuff. The fact that we are no longer scared by anything, unlike the fear evoked by their first three or four albums, doesn’t mean they have run out of steam; it just means that the threshold of "tolerance/preparation" for the average listener has risen. Now, to amaze us, the Faust would have to make a Pop album; that would probably astonish us, but in a negative way. It doesn’t surprise us that they insist on the line of thought of "never stopping exploring" (as evidenced by the fact that at 50 they are collaborating in Hamburg with a group of young rappers from San Francisco), but we are the weird ones; they remain astonishing. You can get used to anything, even magnificence. Briatore, after a year of sleeping with Naomi, might have even grown tired of seeing her naked. But that doesn't mean she became ugly. But thank God we still have Dalla, Bennato, and all the experimental singer-songwriters from Italy.
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We Sardinians, on the other hand, are better, about why Vagina is called Broddoi, if you think about it a bit, you'll figure it out, right? :D
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I grasp much less than I should, but the essential points are clear. The slang is a bit trickier, but they have much less variety than we do; in the end, they just distort words, they don't invent them from scratch like we Italians do. The final "er" becomes "a," and they play with assonances (for example, New = Nu), which are fairly fixed mechanisms. We're much worse; how "appuntamento mancato" becomes "tirare bidone" is a bit difficult to explain with a fixed rule.
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Once upon a time, the lyrics and rhymes were the most important thing of all, given that the sparse and similar beats from ten years ago didn’t really allow for much choice. From '97-'98 onwards, with all the new material, I started to appreciate the beats as well, but I still believe that lyrics and rhymes are always the most important thing overall. I can’t tell you what the newspapers think now because I haven’t read them in ten years, but I believe they write more or less the same things.
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Yes, if you didn't enjoy Noise & Violence by Ansence, you'll definitely like this one much more. Grab the pusher (and don’t forget to ask for the extra, my grandmother used to say).
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Much less violent than Absence, but what it loses in violence it gains in the expansion of sounds, so it's a bit difficult to determine which is tougher between the two; it depends on what you're more accustomed to. For example, I digested Absence more easily; I believe it's more direct. Although, as it was said about Lukin, it's much more a Faust album than a Dalek one; comparisons with Absence are "legitimate" but also not.
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I would like them a lot more, he’s a handbrake that can be good or less so, depending on the point of view. You're right, but I insist on letting go of all the connections to old patterns. One of these days I’ll set myself free to discover the Beats that Oktopus made for someone else to see how the result turns out. Do you remember any? Honestly, besides the Dalek, I don’t think I have any Oktopus stuff, but you can never know in a field where every album has 9 producers and 15 MCs.
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You should really like the sounds, but the mood is dark and quite ambient-kraut. Few little noises, a lot of low-frequency rumblings. You wouldn't hate it, but you wouldn't go crazy for it either; maybe one day I'll send you the first Faust albums, those should appeal to you much more.
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Beautiful the Klangbad site, Airone. There’s also the first of the Dalek on double vinyl, I don’t think it’s available on Ipecac either. For Faust, there’s a ton of special stuff; I’ll mark it in my favorites.
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People who I think would fit better than Dalek over the beats of Oktopus would be: Black Thought from the Roots, El-P + Cannibal Ox (I would definitely enjoy these first ones a lot), MF Doom, Mos Def, DoseOne, Alias, or even Fredro from Onyx. It’s not that he’s bad, but the beats of Oktopus are the "most forward" (maybe not the best, but definitely the most forward) while Dalek isn't quite as forward. He’s good, but not as progressive. The gap is noticeable and it's a bit of a shame. That said, I believe Absence by Dalek deserves to be included in the top 10 rap masterpieces of all time for innovation (in this field, it’s only behind Funcrusher Plus by Company Flow), it’s out of this world.