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Ed Rec Vol 3
words by Dean Driscoll
So ridiculously trendy and 'now' that your pubes fashion themselves into an asymmetrical haircut as you're listening to it, Ed Banger's latest comp featuring usual suspects Busy P, SebastiAn, DJ Mehdi, Uffie and Feadz is another testament to just how fucking mental the French are. What would you like to listen to? Disco? Gangster Rap? Nosebleed techno? Italo house? Thrash metal? How about we chuck all of them into a rusty bucket, whisk it up with some lo-fi production and turn whatever we come up with up to 11. Then stick a baseball cap on it at a jaunty angle. It'll never work... yet somehow, more often than not, it really does. And even at the bits where it's so eye-wateringly abrasive that you cry for mummy, you've got to admire the sheer balls of it. That Uffie still can't rap though.6/10 in stores now
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