BASSI MAESTRO – Classic

Chronic Area/V2

Sn no particular preamble and not even having to wait too long we have arrived at the third solo work of producer, DJ and mc Bassi Maestro. Twenty tracks for almost an hour of good Hip Hop without too many compromises, so raw and real as to seem indigestible, so spontaneous as to sink slowly into the deepest underground confirming talent and passion that still push and pulsate. Having abandoned the painful melancholy of the previous work, all that remains is the fairly objective analysis of a ‘crazy world’ of beats, rhymes and whatnot? The accompanying productions, all borne by Bassi, are sparse and precise, great for a good freestyle, symptomatic of our producer's study and state of learning, with an apt series of refinements and preciousness that will not fail to strike and capture your attention. If you already know him, you will not be displaced by this record, Sano Biz's work of the last two years should have prepared you for this: provocation (“Parla Tu”) and irony, intelligence (“Il Mondo Dei Pazzi”) and a desire to have fun... how?! Don't believe it!?! Then catch “Wack Rappaz,” a first single as bold as it is different from what you've heard so far. Special attention is required in order to go all the way through, you can just move your head but there is much more to it, although talking ‘only about Hip Hop’ with paradoxical almost B-Movie language, the ‘drama’ you will listen to will involve you to the point of meditation and emotion. Minimal but apt features: of course CDB, present in one track but then scattered here and there in many tracks, in short an increasingly close-knit partnership, Tormento and Medda in the same track “Lo Sanno” and finally Macro Marco in “Yo, Hey”... for the record you will find much more, but again pay close attention who knows there might be some other of your favorites hidden in the folds of these 14 songs and/or 6 skits. A record that I recommend you listen to for at least three or four times all in one go almost as if it were a movie, but I recommend: don't miss that great track that is “December 1999.” Bases like this are heard few more and even if it is only one verse and a refrain, well scratched anyway, you will find here the summary of the record and more. “Classic” may sound like a very pretentious title but in some ways you will realize how it is also very apt.

By Vez