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Curse Ov Dialect is an alternative hip hop group based in Melbourne, Australia. It consists of Raceless, Volk Makedonski, Atarungi, and Paso Bionic. They were the first Australian hip-hop group to be signed to an American record label. They have been described as having a “wild theatricality with an urgent street politic, raw cultural expression with collagist, first generation hip-hop aesthetics, surrealism with activism.” ==Musical career== The group formed in 1994 with the original line up consisting of MC Raceless, MC Malice and DJ Paso Bionic on turntables. It was with this line up that they recorded their demo tape ''Evil Klownz'' (1995) and ''Hex Ov Intellect'' (1998). Not long after the release of ''Hex Ov Intellect'', they met Ollie Olsen (Max Q, No) who went on to produce their self-titled EP ''Curse Ov Dialect'' (2000). Malice left the group during the recording of ''Curse Ov Dialect'' and was replaced by Atarangi, August the 2nd and Volk Makedonski. With this line up they grew in popularity due to their wild live shows and strong anti-racist, anti-homophobic and internationalist message at a time of rising xenophobia in Australian politics and society. After shows supporting Anticon (Doseone, Sole, and Jel) in 2001, they landed a record deal with Mush Records who released ''Lost in the Real Sky'' in 2003. The album was mixed by Paso Bionic and mastered by Simon Polinski. On release, it was awarded 'Album of the Week' on 3RRR and 3PBS. Sebastian Chan says that “whilst (album ) radiates a strong psychaedelic surrealism, at the core there are strong anti-racist, multiculturalist themes – which give the record a very specific Australian-ness. Likewise the beats are drawn from literally every- where – Arabic, mediaeval English, and of course traditional Macedonian. Anthony Carew in The Age wrote “from acknowledging racist states, to attacking such prejudice, to dreaming of some utopian global community in which ‘all cultures come together’, the album, unlike so many rap records, finds the lyricists talking about not just themselves, but the world at large.” Brian Ho at Dusted Magazine described it as “a wonderfully imagined album that successfully borrows and reinterprets sounds from all facets of music and culture, creatively but still with enough energy and bounce for frequent neck exercise.” Curse Ov Dialect followed with ''Wooden Tongues'' in 2006. Mixed by Cornel Wilczek and mastered by François Tétaz, their second effort for Mush Records received equally positive praise. Brian Turner of WFMU described the album having "flowing rhymes and scratches () complement Muslimgauze-ish beats, baroque horns, kid choruses and operatic flights, Bollywood cooing, Balkan horn blasts all presented in sharp precision appropriate to the assorted lyrics (which focus, needless to say, on worldly diversity/cultural unity). It's really admirable that all this can be presented with total energy and cohesiveness while *still * acknowledging all that is right about hip-hop history". Beat Magazine noted that "the biggest shock is that the second half plays with shade and texture, revealing subtlety to be one of their strengths, possibly the only thing not sampled on their debut".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Curse Ov Dialect - Wooden Tongues )〕 Their next album ''Crisis Tales'' was mixed by Danielsan and mastered by François Tétaz. The album was released in Australia by Mistletone and internationally via Staubgold in 2009. The song "85 percent" received high rotation on Triple J. Dan Rule in ''Music Australia Guide'' found that "while as untethered as ever, new record Crisis Tales is also Curse’s most concise. Even with jaunts into previously unexplored terrains... there’s an unswerving quality to the production that harnesses each of Crisis Tales’ disparate strands". Shaun Prescott in ''Mess+Noise'' wrote "Crisis Tales is a maximal cluster fuck of references, lectures, wordplay and contorted surrealism. It’s a result of a hip-hop generation tanked with input and ever greedy for more, eager to be overloaded by disparate textures and unorthodox style/aesthetic/philosophical cohabitation." Ron Hart in Pop Matters noted that "some may not have much interest in issues such as Aboriginal rights or the rampant political corruption of Curse Ov Dialect’s home continent, Crisis Tales nevertheless commands attention, thanks to the uncanny mic skills of MCs Raceless and Volk Makedonski and their unique back-and-forth with vocalists August the 2nd and Atarungi". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Curse ov Dialect」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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