(Stay High) Boom Bip rises from the instrumental hip hop graveyard

There was a time when one man armed with a sampler and a few crates was enough. It was an era fondly referred to as "instrumental hip hop" and the records it produced smelled of nag champa and took listeners deep within their hanging tapestries. Boom Bip comes from that time. His record with Dose One entitled Circle remains one of the most daring and challenging records from the early Aughts, predating Anticon's "advanced hip hop" era. Like his contemporaries from that e...

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