After his excellent 2005 album Beauty and the Beat, Edan pretty much disappeared. But now, after years of laying low, he's back. Boston's unlikely hip-hop community member has released a 30 minutes long mixtape filled with his odd hip-hop/psychedelic fusion, however, his raps are, sadly, absent here. From his earlier releases it's obvious what his influences are (musically, lyrically) and on Echo Party he continues to pull from these sources. Old school rap samples run amok on this thing whereas his more trippy/stoney/psychedelic side takes a smaller role in the Echo Party final results (not to deny that there is far more here found than just about any other mixtape from the past two years). This is just a good example of what a mixtape sounded like circa 1985 (if they had better technology and a slight lean towards 60s/70s psychedelica).
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