DJ KRUSH
Jaku
Sony Music
· Eight albums into his career and Krush is still pulling white rabbits out of his hat and moulding form out of abstract ether.
More brooding than a jilted lover and darker than Tokyo during a blackout, Jaku is nothing if not an excellent continuation of DJ Krush’s mad musical mind. The album cruises the underbelly of hip hop’s long lost underground, scoring a soundtrack for that po-mo noir film that everyone talks about, but has yet to see. Krush is joined on two tracks by Aesop Rock and Mr Lif, who act as dealers in counterpoint to his cult of soundscape, Jaku’s most magnificent moments come when Krush leaves a light on at the beginning of a track or tinkers with Asian themes. It’s then that the terrain doesn’t sound quite so forbidding. All told, Krush’s intensity is still alight with his passion for the nether regions of a form that’s been sadly missing his company.
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