- Audio CD (April 5 2004)
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Obese Records
- ASIN: B00020H48E
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
- Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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Product Description
Album Description
2006 release from this Australian Hip Hop outfit. Hilltop Hoods have been performing live and writing Hip Hop music for over ten years. On the stage, Hilltop Hoods consisting of MC's Suffa, Pressure and DJ Debris, bring their music alive with their warm-blooded rhymes and electric stage presence Their trademark combination of Jazz influenced beats, solid lyrics, tight flows and a localized viewpoint is why so many people are taking about Hilltop Hoods and why they won't be labeled up-and-coming for much longer. Obese.
Album Details
Coming from the Fertile Glades Ofadelaide, the Hilltop Hoods Are Perhaps that Most Universally Respected of all the Australian Hip Hop Crews, Managing to Avoid Much of the In-fight that Comes with Scrounging for Too Few Crumbs of the Music Industry Pie for Far Too Long. As an Album, "Calling" is a Reflective and Almost Melancholy Adventure Exploring the Notion of Hip Hop as a Set of Ideals. Although the Phrase 'keeping it Real' Has Been Relegated to Cliche, the Hilltop Hoods See Hip Hop Not as a Genre, a Set of Elements Or Marketing Tool but as a Framework for Living.
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Hip hop fans rejoice
Dec 11 2006
Format:Audio CD
In this world there is only one true universal language that breaks down all barriers and dialects and that is music. Whether your australian or not, or understand our culture, you could do nothing else for yourself than give up thirty bucks to listen to this solid gold disc.I listen to a lot of north american hip hop, and don't understand a lot of the lingo, and listen to music from europe and africa of which i know not a word, and it resonates, thru emotion and rhythm and in hip hop's case rhyme. So do yourself a favour and listen to some very well produced, intelligent, humourous and serious flow that is the HILLTOP HOODS.
Quite possibly one of the best Hip Hop albums out there.
Jun 4 2006
Format:Audio CD
I'd like to start by stating that I am most definately not a fan of hip hop. I listen to a bit of MF Doom or Deltron now and then, but generally shy away from the genre. This being the reason I was a bit concerned about paying nearly $30 for an album from which I'd only heard three songs.
I must say though, my concerns were most definately not warranted. Not only is it easily my favourite hip hop album (not too much competition there), but it's sitting at the top of my CD collection and riding in the first slot of my disk changer, where it'll most likely be staying for quite a while.
The production on this CD is fantastic, with some of the best beats I've ever heard. The lyrics also stand out on this beauty, always tight, and ranging from serious and thought provoking to laugh out loud funny (Simmy and the Gravyspitter comes to mind) and everywhere in between. Samples come from everywhere, and although I don't recognise most of them, one that really stands out is of Tommy Lee Jones from 'The Fugitive,' fitting perfectly with the song.
The one gripe I have with the album is the length. It definately isn't a short album, but I was let down to realise that out of the 17 tracks there are three interludes (one of which is comedy gold), an intro, and an outro.
Stand out tracks from the album would have to be 'The Calling,' 'Dumb Enough?,' and 'The Sentinal' (A CD only bonus track). Final verdict: If your a hip hop fan, pick this up RIGHT NOW, and if you're not, listen to the samples from their site, get hooked, and then pick this up.
I must say though, my concerns were most definately not warranted. Not only is it easily my favourite hip hop album (not too much competition there), but it's sitting at the top of my CD collection and riding in the first slot of my disk changer, where it'll most likely be staying for quite a while.
The production on this CD is fantastic, with some of the best beats I've ever heard. The lyrics also stand out on this beauty, always tight, and ranging from serious and thought provoking to laugh out loud funny (Simmy and the Gravyspitter comes to mind) and everywhere in between. Samples come from everywhere, and although I don't recognise most of them, one that really stands out is of Tommy Lee Jones from 'The Fugitive,' fitting perfectly with the song.
The one gripe I have with the album is the length. It definately isn't a short album, but I was let down to realise that out of the 17 tracks there are three interludes (one of which is comedy gold), an intro, and an outro.
Stand out tracks from the album would have to be 'The Calling,' 'Dumb Enough?,' and 'The Sentinal' (A CD only bonus track). Final verdict: If your a hip hop fan, pick this up RIGHT NOW, and if you're not, listen to the samples from their site, get hooked, and then pick this up.
Australian hip-hop is reaching maturity
Dec 3 2004
Format:Audio CD
For way too many years, Australian hip-hop sounded plain awkward - mostly because Australian artists were spending too much time trying to sound like their Nth. American counterparts. Of course, the accent gave them away and everything just came across lame.
In this decade we are privileged to be witnessing the birth of real Australian hip-hop. Distinctly Australian with Oz lingo, issues and sayings, distinctly groovy with elegant, jazz-influenced mixing that puts anything from Europe to shame and thought-provoking lyrics that don't get bogged down in the kind of market-driven pretentiousness that too often mars Nth American pop-rap.
The Hilltop Hoods have been leading this Oz hip-hop birth for the better part of 10 years and now, they're hitting their stride with this classic. Smooth, lyrically genius, samples from everywhere (everything from Dudley Moore and Melanie Safka to flute solos that'd make St. Germain envious) looped and stitched together seemlessly. Bound to demand listening with the "repeat" button taped into the "on" position.
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undoubtably!
it may not be the very best australian has EVER put out, but this is undoubtably the most professional, well produced CD in australian hip hop to date... Read more
Published on May 15 2004 by kasey barkle
Buy Me
Hilltop Hoods are awsome, the ONLY hip hop act that I like, from Adelaide, Australia. Fresh and worth a listen.
Published on May 4 2004
Decent Hip Hop with no bling bling
The Hilltop Hoods from Adelaide, Australia are on the frontline of the Aussie hip hop scene. Bringing funky, jazzy, bassie beats with strong lyrics and quick witted ryhmes they are... Read more
Published on April 30 2004 by vicbitter
hilltop hoods
ahhhh....when your hips start to shake,your head starts to bop and you have a disgustingly cheesy grin on your face and you dont know why,its cos these guys are playin... Read more
Published on April 9 2004 by tiger
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