This is what hip-hop is about; the mash is minimal but rich, the delivery fat and smooth, the beats supportive and the rhyming abilities stretchy. It’s also the kind of material that can be performed live without sounding totally shredded. The real beauty of great production lies in making the producer sound invisible – making it sound like the sessions took place without him. Too many hip-hop records, even great hip-hop records, sound like they impose a no-limit ruling on ideas. The result is a fistful of tracks often teeming with imagination, bristling with possibilities but boasting little or no identity. An exception to this rule was Wordsworth’s ‘Mirror Music’ released originally in 2004, and earning a timely reissue on Halftooth Records in Spring 2006.
Following ‘Mirror Music’s unprecedented critical success on urban radio, and its exceptional response from fans, press, DJs and taste-makers alike, a remix-packing, break ripping deluxe edition is being reissued as a limited edition 2-disc set. The ‘Deluxe Edition’ includes the entire 20-track original ‘Mirror Music’ album from Wordsworth, plus a mighty bonus disc of material featuring remixes by producer, Oddisee.
Beautiful beats, smooth, rippling flows and some of the most melting downtempo grooves ever put to a hip-hop record. Soul up. Break out. This is pure.