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DJ Krush
Released 1996

3rd Eye
04:47
982 plays

Blank
02:18
889 plays

Ground
05:56
857 plays

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songs

- 1
- Only the Strong Survive
- 04:14
- 1,656 plays

- 2
- Anticipation
- 04:44
- 1,094 plays

- 3
- What's Behind Darkness?
- 03:06
- 1,035 plays

- 4
- Meiso
- 04:03
- 1,431 plays

- 5
- Bypath 1
- 00:00
- 699 plays

- 6
- Blank
- 02:18
- 889 plays

- 7
- Ground
- 05:56
- 857 plays

- 8
- Bypath 2
- 00:00
- 677 plays

- 9
- Most Wanted Man
- 04:00
- 766 plays

- 10
- Bypath 3
- 01:13
- 763 plays

- 11
- 3rd Eye
- 04:47
- 982 plays

- 12
- Oce 9504
- 03:36
- 818 plays

- 13
- Duality
- 08:49
- 2,242 plays

- 14
- Bypath - Would You Take It?
- 00:00
- 594 plays

album review

Having won a deserved underground reputation, DJ Krush was able to take things to a higher plane with his excellent Meiso album, featuring another range of strong collaborations to help him carry out his mission of creativity with the turntables. Kicking off with the excellent "Only the Strong Survive," featuring C.L. Smooth, Meiso resembles Krush in that shorter bridge tracks crop up between longer songs, all flowing together just so. His overall approach remains unchanged: low, mid- to slow-tempo grooves and breaks, with varying low bass tones, touching on everything from jazz and funk to experimental ambient production. The album's mood is at once reflective and edgy, always threatening to get vicious just around the corner. Highlights of his strictly solo tracks include "What's Behind Darkness?" and the deceptively gentle "Blank." Most of Krush's collaborators this time around are on the vocal tip; musically, the real winner comes with the astonishing "Duality." This track is a full partnership with the equally well-ranked DJ Shadow; one can easily tell when the latter takes over the drum programming for the tune, with a shimmering darkness cascading down. Vocally, both Black Thought and Malik B. of the Roots take a spin with the tight grooving title track, getting in some wonderfully playful rhymes playing off Krush's Japanese background while the man himself shows some smart scratching flash. Deflon Sallahr of Hedrush kicks down with a confrontational effort on "Ground," while a more than logical fellow traveler in jazz and hip-hop, the legendary Guru, works out the music with Krush as Big Shug delivers a bold gangsta rap on "Most Wanted Man." ~ Ned Raggett, All Music Guide