Listen! up

Rip It Up, Issue 211, 1 March 1995, Page 1

Listen! up

ICECUBE Bootlegs and B-Sides Over the course of his solo career, CUBE has released a score of hit singles, several with B-sides never before included on any album. Couple those with six brilliant remixes of classic Cube tracks and a pair of excellent new songs and you have Ice Cube's new album! Tracks include *24 With an L’, What Can I Do', '2 N the Morning' and My Skin Is My Skin'. The album ends with D'Voidofpopniggafiedmegamix', a collage of over 15 CUBE songs fused into one.

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JULIAN COPE Autogeddon The wonderful, eccentric ex-Teardrop Exploder has got on his bike and recorded a brand new album for a brand new record label - hooray! Autogeddon is Julian's first album for the Echo label and it is the final part of the environmental trilogy that also includes Peggy Suicide (WM) and Jehovahkill (1993). It deals with similar themes about the pillaging of Mother Earth, this time with an emphasis on the evils of car pollution. One track, Paranormal in the West Country' was recorded inside West Kennet Long Barrow, an ancient burial tomb near Avery.

BLOWN Kind Of Blew Think sultry French hip-hop; think smokey New Orleans jazz; think mellow urban grooves and you have Blown. A new three-peice act from the U.K., Blown caught the attention of music lovers everywhere with their version of 'Je T’Aime' (the sexy Serge Gainsberg/Jane Birkin 1969 classic). Kind of Blew is their debut album out through Liberation Records and if you're into some love and jazz this is the album for you! ...By the way, if you were wondering about wind instruments - there aren't any.