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	Alias Resurgam Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Rock In August 2007, after eight years of innovating in Oakland, Alias went home to Portland, Maine, a city which, despite plenty of inclement weather, has burned almost to the ground four times whose Latin motto translates in ... more » « less
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All Artists: Alias
Title: Resurgam
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Anticon
Original Release Date: 1/1/2008
Re-Release Date: 8/26/2008
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Rock
Style: Pop Rap
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 656605859521

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Album Description

In August 2007, after eight years of innovating in Oakland, Alias went home to Portland, Maine, a city which, despite plenty of inclement weather, has burned almost to the ground four times whose Latin motto translates in no uncertain terms to I will rise again. Thus, that motto, Resurgam, is a doubly fitting title for Alias' first solo instrumental album in five years, one which finds the accomplished electro/acoustic musician and beat-smith returning to a proven foundation, while building all else anew.

CD Reviews

Hip-hop Yin

David M. Madden | salt lake, utah United States | 08/28/2008

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Alias's work follows the sample-heavy, drum machined (note the title "I Heart Drum Machines"), bit-reduced formula of hip-hop, and though he's also known for producing harder stuff for the likes on Sage Francis, here he prefers to package it all with a lighter, sometimes fey (ala his work with Tarsier) approach, dropping tripped-out folk guitar and softer sounds as well as crunchy snares into his MPC. He counterposes every big-beat ("New to a Few") and spry "dance" track ("Well Water" with Why?) with pulpy pieces such as the spacious piano-driven "Weathering" (Featuring The One AM Radio)" and a droning, otherworldly radio transmission on "Place of No More Choices". For all the Public Enemy and Wu-Tang you listen to all week, it's nice to put on something that incorporates the same elements but does so at a languid pace, just to refuel or take a break on a foggy morning."

Hip Hop Yin it is.....

N. Koller | -/\\/ATRONIC-> | 08/25/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is some good stuff......if you like drum-machines, distant synths, bass, and peaceful vocals this is for you. Personally, I find this fits my favorite form of music were there is a simple harmonious sound, yet this underlying creepy intense feeling that you're on a mission.."