Artifacts

• Artist: Steve Roach
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• Release Date: 1994
• Total Time: 76:50
• Genre: New Age

Review

Steve Roach once again pushes the boundries of musical expression on Artifacts. After 15 years and 24 solo and group releases, Roach continues to defy current musical trends with his progressive electronic, new age, world, techno-tribal, and ambient blend. This new release explores his growing ability with instruments such as didgeridoos, framedrums, dumbek, rainsticks, ocarina, and clay flutes and displays a level of electronic artistry that is approaching legendary. Textured rhythms create a unique, trance-like quality that sounds equally primal and futuristic. ~ MusD, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Groundswell	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(8:15)
Thunder Brother	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(9:29)
The Origin of Artifacts	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(25:46)
Your Own Eyes	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(8:02)
Ancestral Horizon	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(8:27)
Temple of the Frog	Steve Roach	Steve Roach, Loren Nerell	(8:50)
Begin Where I End	Steve Roach	Steve Roach	(8:01)

Credits

Steve Roach (Producer), Steve Roach (Main Performer), Steve Roach (Liner Notes), Loren Nerell (Performer), Loren Nerell (?), Loren Nerell (Gender Barung), Dan Hersch (Digital Mastering), Linda Kohanov (Liner Notes), Eckart Rahn (Producer), Eckart Rahn (Executive Producer), Mark Wight (Photography)

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• Disbanded: 1997
• Genres: Rap
• Representative Albums: "That's Them
• Representative Songs: "The Ultimate", "Wrong Side of da Tracks", "C'mon Wit da Git Down

Biography

The Artifacts are a throwback hip-hop duo from Newark, NJ. Their music reflects and emphasizes three of the four elements of true hip-hop culture: MCing, DJing, and their specialty, graffiti writing or "bombing"; both Tame One and El the Sensai are proficient at all three. With unique styles that play off each other well, Tame and El's graf-rap was well-received by underground audiences and continued in the Jersey rap tradition of Redman and Lords of the Underground. The crew scored an underground classic with their debut single in 1994, "Wrong Side of The Tracks," serving notice to their graffiti bombing missions and their Jersey heritage. The debut album, Between a Rock and a Hard Place, followed soon afterward. Tight, funky production provided the duo's B-boy stance the chance to take shape. Although it contained more of the same, the 1996 follow-up album, That's Them, was not nearly as successful critically, getting lost amid the burgeoning kingpin gangster attitude of Jay-Z and Nas. The Artifacts were hard-nosed backpack hip-hoppers in the halcyon days of hip-hop's golden age revisited, before hip-hop's mainstream explosion and the elevating gangster hardcore style that led to the violent deaths of Tupac Shakir and Notorious B.I.G. The duo split in 1997 and now release singles as solo artists. ~ Michael Di Bella, All Music Guide

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