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Rockers Hi-Fi
Released 1997

Going Under
07:38
87 plays

90 Degree Fuzzwalk
04:14
81 plays

The 8th Shade
11:00
76 plays

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- 1
- The 8th Shade
- 11:00
- 76 plays

- 2
- Theme From Mish Mash
- 02:17
- 63 plays

- 3
- Now I Deliver
- 04:41
- 56 plays

- 4
- Uneasy Skanking
- 06:47
- 72 plays

- 5
- Fling Mi Ting
- 07:36
- 40 plays

- 6
- Mish Mash Episode One
- 02:03
- 28 plays

- 7
- 90 Degree Fuzzwalk
- 04:14
- 81 plays

- 8
- Mish Mash Episode Two
- 02:14
- 32 plays

- 9
- Going Under
- 07:38
- 87 plays

- 10
- Paths Of Life
- 06:29
- 28 plays

- 11
- One With Another
- 07:43
- 60 plays

- 12
- Copycat (Follafashiondropoffaconkatree)
- 07:10
- 24 plays

- 13
- Queen Of The Ghetto (Ghetto Defendant)
- 05:03
- 35 plays

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album review

On its second album, the Rockers Hi-Fi crew continues its musical exploration of the dark borderlands that separate hip-hop, trip-hop, reggae, dub, and electronica. With its sometimes nebulous chord changes, casual rhythms, and murky textures, this is music that is constantly in danger of bogging down, and it sometimes does -- good luck getting all the way through the skull-numbing "Mish Mash Episode 2" (even at a mercifully brief two minutes) or the very aptly titled "Going Under." But when the energy picks up just a little and the groove kicks in just right, the results are quietly spectacular: "One With Another" combines samples from a sermon with faint and eerie synthesizer washes and an intermittently complex house beat; "Uneasy Skanking" is exactly what it says it is, a dead-slow one-drop reggae groove overlaid on a faintly queasy chord progression; "Fling Mi Ting" makes offhand reference to jungle while focusing your attention on a loose, dubwise funk groove. The album's real highlights are the singing and rapping interludes provided by Phoebe Esprit, whose "Now I Deliver" is an exquisite fusion of reggae and hip-hop, and who puts her own personal stamp on the Clash's "Ghetto Defendant" with "Queen of the Ghetto." Highly recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, All Music Guide