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Ammoncontact
- Avg user rating:
Out of 14 votes - Similar Artists: Subtle, Boom Bip, Danger Mouse, Sun Ra, Ozomatli
Out of 14 votes
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Genre: Hip-Hop » Beats/Instrumental Hip-Hop
Editor's review
These two Los Angeles experimental hip-hoppers sure pack variety into their beat-funk brew. Offering everything from worldbeat rhythms and '70s funk to diced-up instrumental loops, they create a seemingly infinite number of kinetic sounds that shimmer with their signature rhythmic flow.
Biography
Ammoncontact is a hip-hop production duo that has been releasing some of the funkiest sample based/live instrumentation beat hybrids of the last couple years. With releases on Emperor Norton/Dublab, Eastern Developments (a label that Ammoncontact's Carlos Ni?o helped Scott Heron a.k.a. Prefuse 73 and Graphic Havok designer Peter Rentz start,) Soul Jazz and most recently Ninja Tune with remixes for Jaga Jazzist and
Mochilla/Up Above with a remix of Keepintime alongside mixes by Cut Chemist and King Britt.
Following up two previous releases for Plug Research, their acclaimed debut full length SOUNDS LIKE EVERYTHING released in November 2003 and this
summers smash E.P. BROTHERS FROM ANOTHER comes this latest collection of tracks ONE IN AN INFINITY OF WAYS. Confident that it is their best work to date, Ni?o and partner (since high school) Fabian Ammon have been eager to get it out to the world.
Flowing from track to track like one of Ni?o?s Spaceways Radio shows on KPFK 90.7FM in Los
Angeles, ONE starts off with a piece that features Plug Research label mate and long time
Ammoncontact collaborator Daedelus called "Dreamy." It then jumps tempo into a loop and live mash up called "Healing Vibrations." It is here that the introduction of the extended
Ammoncontact band is heard with The Rebirth's Greg Malone on electric bass and electric
guitar and Andres Renteria of Build An Ark on trap drums. The tracks stride from lush and
luminous to heavy and krunk. ONE features guest appearances by members of Build An Ark and MC Lil Sci of Sol Uprising, Scienz Of Life, K.M.D. and Shaman Works' The John Robinson Project.
Made simply on an MPC 2000 and an ASR-10, with a few keyboards and synths, Ammoncontact are all about having fun and trying to stretch the boundaries of hip-hop. Shying away from any ?electronic? labeling since there is no use of a computer or tech-electro sound sources, Ammoncontact consider their sound organic and vibey. Prefuse 73 has labeled their sound ?machine funk,? and that is about right, but it?s not glitchy or heavily processed at all. The live aspect then come into play as the original programmed tracks are transferred to mix and Ni?o runs with ideas for the expansion of the pieces.
What you have before you is music that the makers had fun making and that if nothing else you?ll be able to groove to.
