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Aztlan Underground
Haves and Have Nots
Album: MUSICBLITZ Exclusive
Genres: Alternative,Rap/Hip Hop
Aztlan Underground rear their heads (with the help of Ozomatli's Wil-Dog) to hip you to their own brand of beat-heavy, socially conscious music on this blazing MUSICBLITZ Exclusive. |
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Aztlan Underground’s MUSICBLITZ Exclusive, “Haves and Have Nots,” is bound to remind a lot of listeners of Rage Against the Machine. Certainly, the bands share a penchant for socially conscious lyrics and a hard rock-meets-hip hop sound. However, Aztlan Underground easily set themselves apart from RATM and their clones -- this track is fresher, more original, and more authentic than even Rage themselves. Where Rage’s hip hop elements can seem contrived and a little too “white boy wannabe” for fans of true hip-hop, Aztlan Underground set a smooth, gangsta flavored groove on the verses, broken up with some tasty scratching and highlighted by riveting Spanglish lyrical delivery that demands you pay attention. Some credit for the polished sound should be shared with the track’s producer, Wil-Dog of the L.A. hip hop/salsa/kitchen sink collective Ozomatli, a man that definitely knows his way around a hip hop groove.
The song’s choruses fall into a thrashy, metallic shout-along that belies the funky grooves of the verse, but this element is by no means off-putting or forced -- it conjures images of hundreds of kids pogoing like their lives depend on it. And though the band seems more at home with the hip-hop elements than the hard rock, they deliver the goods on both. In the final analysis, this is a track you don’t want to miss, “not,” as the choruses shout, “by a long shot!”
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Julio Diaz |
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Julio Diaz is the Editor-In-Chief for Ink 19, the largest music magazine in the Southeast US, and the third largest regional magazine in the country. He is the former Webmaster of The Florida Ska Web Page! and the former Vice President of A&R and Marketing for Citrus Records. His work has also been published in Focus magazine and translated into French for Dig It! magazine.
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Awesome!!
Joe Derange
Azltaln Underground is the shit. Definetly one of the best bands out there today period. The fact that they've been able to stay true to thier political beliefs while consistantly putting out head banging fisy clencing music proves that.
clenched fist
AUG ROCKS!!!!!!
mai-a
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