Edan's "Echo Party" (and a special Cinefamily event in LA tonight)

The MC/DJ known as Edan is described as “one of the masters of elevating the genre of hip-hop into sonic art.” Tom Fitzgerald of Cinefamily edited together an amazing 30-minute found film mix to Edan’s new album, and a snippet is shown above (YouTube link here).

For those of you in LA, Cinefamily is hosting a West Coast premiere tonight, with Edan spinning live.

About the album, and the “Echo Party” video:

For the album, Edan was granted full access to the Traffic Entertainment Group‘s extensive back catalogue of old-school beats ‘n breaks, and after layering them with his own instrumental work, Echo Party emerges as an astounding, obsessive pastiche of dance, rap and punk that utilizes everything from turntables to tape echo, glockenspiel to guitar, and Moog to kazoo. Tom’s accompaning film is no less dizzy, mixing Bollywood, B-boys and a barrage of abstractions á la Brakhage into an addictive full-on psychedelic brainslayer that begs for repeat viewings.

Bonus at the Los Angeles event tonight: a slideshow of iconic hip-hop images from photographer Ricky Powell, author of Public Access, Frozade Moments and Oh Snap!.

Album: Echo Party (Amazon)

(Thanks, Hadrian Belove!)