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Part-Time People Cage... Or Part-Time Key
Hip-Hop · 1999 · 16 tracks · 1h 11m

Part-Time People Cage... Or Part-Time Key

WHY?

Seventy minutes of murky, tape-hissing abstract hip-hop. A fragmented collage of neurotic poetry and dusty, skeletal beats from the Anticon underground.

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It's like a 4-track recording of a genius having a very quiet breakdown in a basement.

A claustrophobic and deeply intellectual descent into solitary overthinking.

Part-Time People Cage... Or Part-Time Key · vs · WHY?
Basement Show+2.0σ

Basement Show saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 16 Tracks · 1h 11m
01
Trapped
0:58
02
7:35am
3:12
03
Yoni, Let's Fit Like a Puzzle
2:35
04
Half Full/Empty Universe
12:38
05
Mr. Lovliest Cat Esquire
2:59
06
To See the Sea
4:24
07
Edison in Formaldihyde
2:43
08
Ode to the Modern Squirrel
1:03
09
Why I Don't Fit in in School
1:32
10
Blood Puddle on Wall Street
1:05
11
Lovliest Cat (reprise)
3:54
12
Comments on Fred Ramdal's Whale Cocks
0:53
13
Contents of a Dead Vandal's Mailbox or Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places
23:22
14
7:35am (Part Two)
1:05
15
Murdering the Invertibrate
4:17
16
The Original "To Kill a..."
4:43
Moments Worth Waiting For
The jarring transition into the twelve minute sprawl of track 4 where the beat dissolves into static.
The way the vocal in 7:35am sounds like it was recorded through a telephone in a different decade.
The repetitive, hypnotic loop of Mr. Lovliest Cat Esquire that feels like a broken record in a dream.
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