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Edan

Beauty & The Beat

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PLAY QUEUE 1 Polite Meeting		save
PLAY QUEUE 2 Funky Voltron		save
PLAY QUEUE 3 I See Colours		save
PLAY QUEUE 4 Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme		save
PLAY QUEUE 5 Murder Mystery		save
PLAY QUEUE 6 Torture Chamber		save
PLAY QUEUE 7 Making Planets		save
PLAY QUEUE 8 Time Out (Segue)		save
PLAY QUEUE 9 Rock And Roll		save
PLAY QUEUE 10 Beauty		save
PLAY QUEUE 11 The Science Of The Two		save
PLAY QUEUE 12 Smile		save
PLAY QUEUE 13 Promised Land		save

MOG Editorial Review

It's a hip-hop record in name and execution, but it's easy to consider Edan Portnoy's Beauty and the Beat to be a love letter to the diverse nature of crate-digging and sampling in general. While the sum of the album's parts resemble a hip-hop beat, Edan gets to that point differently than most producers, sampling massive rock riffs and deep soul cuts with equal vigor. As a result, songs like "Rock and Roll" have more bite, allowing Portnoy and his revolving guests to add more snarl to their rhymes. Elsewhere, tracks like "I See Colours" make reference to producers often relying on the same samples to get by, paying respect to hip-hop's core while giving a whole new spin on it.
AMG Review of Beauty and the Beat

Joshua Glazer
All Music Guide

Boston's Edan has scored the hip-hop triple crown, rapping, programming and sampling at a masters level on his second full-length. As an MC, he bows down while hyping himself up on the wink-nudge titled "Fumbling Over Words That Rhyme," giving extended shout-outs to the history of hip-hop, from Afrika Bambaataa and Grandmaster Flash through to Ultramagnetic MC's and Prince Po, all over a break as dusty and faded as an episode of #Carnivale. "Polite Meeting" offers a beat and sample collage on par with the current work of DJ Shadow and RJD2, and one is left to really ponder at the possibility of Edan trying to perform the beats and vocals live. Def Jux bright star Mr. Lif makes a guest appearance on the heavily psychedelic "Making Planets," which leads into a full-on Hendrix-inspired freaky-blues interlude. Percee P and Insight also drop by to flow over some of Edan's time and space warping musical beds (to call these "beats" would be an immense oversimplification) but Dagha guests on the grittiest rocker, "Rock'N'Roll" which manages a full-on Marshall stack set to ten, and a guitar assault that somehow avoids all of the failings of rap-rock. If hip-hop had existed in the days of ~the Filmore, ~Woodstock and the -Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Edan would have been right on the bus.