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Oddateee
Halfway Homeless
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With his second album doing double duty as the debut for experimental electronic/hip hop artist dälek’s new label, deadverse recordings, the pressure is certainly on for the Bronx, NY-born and Union City, NJ-raised rapper Oddateee. All hope hangs on this one-man Wu-Tang Clan – he channels ODB for “Crackrock,” the annoyingly long and repetitive second half outro a trick even Big Baby Jesus might have pulled – with production by a slightly-restrained dälek rather than RZA, and a little bit of Metabolics mastermind Mr. Dead and kooky king Kool Keith thrown in for good measure. So yeah, much of the album is dark and dusty, with apocalyptic fantasy/prophecy/nightmare “Not Even One” perhaps the dimmest, but there is a ray of sunshine thanks to the violin-heavy, electro-fied bite of Black Sheep’s “It’s Yours,” although they redeem themselves by making it into a catchy Puerto Rican anthem. And proving it’s about more than just dope raps, Oddateee provides his producers (dälek , Komplx, Digital Unicorn) with some shine through a couple of instrumental interludes and some open spaces on the songs, many of them filled with cut-and-scratch solos from in-house DJ Motiv. Sure, Halfway Homeless may not be as out-there as the music of the head of his label, but Oddateee has still delivered a pretty daring record that fits the deadverse mission statement: “[R]eal music by the illest musicians out there. Never mind genre...” I wonder what they’ll follow with... [Thomas Quinlan]
deadverse recordings
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