Fear of a Black Tangent

by Busdriver

Fear of a Black Tangent cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 February 2005
  • Label: Mush
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 59:58
  • Community rating: 3.81/5 from 4 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Project Blowed veteran Regan Farquhar unleashes a torrential display of hyper-speed vocal delivery and heavily satirical lyricism. The production relies on wildly erratic jazz samples and left-field beatwork provided by underground stalwarts like Daedelus and Omid, perfectly framing Busdriver's complex, free-associative critiques of mainstream rap culture.

Genres

Descriptors: satirical, conceptual, sampling, rap, underground, experimental, avant-garde, witty, spoken-word, electronic, dissonant, lo-fi

Tracklist

  1. Yawning Zeitgeist Intro (freestyle) (1:30)
  2. Reheated Pop! (3:00)
  3. Unemployed Black Astronaut (4:00)
  4. Happiness('s Unit of Measurement) (4:37)
  5. Avantcore (2:24)
  6. Wormholes (4:26)
  7. Map Your Psyche (4:15)
  8. Cool Band Buzz (3:28)
  9. Note Boom (3:43)
  10. Low Flying Winged Books (4:56)
  11. Befriend the Friendless Friendster (3:38)
  12. Sphinx's Coonery (4:43)
  13. Lefty's Lament (3:41)
  14. Avantcore (D-Styles Remix) (2:33)
  15. Happiness('s Unit of Measurement) (Prefuse 73 Remix) (4:16)
  16. Unemployed Black Astronaut (Nobody Remix) (4:39)

Credits

  • Busdriver - primary artist
  • Subtitle - keyboards
  • Abstract Rude - vocals
  • Ellay Khule - vocals
  • Devin McNulty - keyboards
  • Isaac Sprintis - guitar
  • 2Mex - vocals
  • Mikah 9 - vocals

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