I wanna thank you...

[The White Shadow]

My album's now no.6 at Hiphopsite.com

Thanks to everyone on here who copped it! I appreciate it! :)

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[DJ Celeste Alexander]

Congrats My Friend! So Glad to hear your hard work is paying off. Way to Do The Damn Thang!:wink:

[The White Shadow]

Much appreciated Celeste, and thank you very much for all the help, support, and love! :remybussi:

The album's doing well, but the hustle continues. :)

Peep the reviews..

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The White Shadow- Untouchable

By: R.M. London

((3.18.2008))

After his highly touted debut release from 2006, Renegades, which featured well known independent hip hop acts such as: J-Zone, Celph Titled, Wordsworth, and more, The White Shadow of Norway is back with another energetic compilation boasting a lineup full of rising stars and well known mic masters. The Producer/Turntablist from the far North has worked with a lot more artists than you might know, producing records for hip hop heavyweights like The Roots, Army of the Pharoahs, Supastition, and Celph Titled. On his new release, Untouchable, White Shadow features a heavy roster of more unknown MCs mixed with a grab back of grimy lyrical wizards that the seasoned indie fan would instantly recognize.

During my first trip through the record one of the first things I noticed right off the bat was the versatility of The White Shadow's production-- quirky electronic funk on minute, gritty battle sounds (a la Stoupe) the next. Unlike producer compilations in the past like Marco Polo's "Port Authority" and the Molemen's "Killing Fields," the Shadow's beats do not focus on one sound or style, but a waterfall of influences and patterns. In the first portion of the album Shadow shows his funky side with a Demigodz like track with the Pizdamen in "Without a Shadow of a Doubt," switches to a hyper-energetic battle laced banger with "Sick Rhymes" with Reef the Lost Cauze and Mr. Malchau, shows off his quirkyness with the electronica inspired "Robots," and even pays homage to the G-funked West Coast style on "LA California" with The Alkaholiks' own Tash at his side. While his sounds bounce all over the hip hop map, White Shadow still manages to keep the album cohesive and the wide range of noise will instantly snatch your attention and make you wonder what's going to pop on next. Which was usually a dope surprise one right after the other.

As the record continued I found myself rewinding numerous tracks to let the metaphors and colorful lyricism embed and bloom in my ears. While unfamiliar names like Strange Brew, IDE, Clokworx, Knuxx, amongst others bared their teeth and proved worthy of a listen, veterans like Esoteric, Reef the Lost Cauze, Tash, Nabo Rawk, and Slaine anchored the ship with their power presence and iron fist vocals. As the record came to a hault I felt replenished. For a hungry hip hop fan that is always craving more hip hop from all different directions "Untouchable" is a feast of furious rhymes, elastic beats, and spotlights a tray of rap finger foods that various hip hop fans can eat right up.

With a tight LP consisting of 14 tracks with various ingredients from all over the rap world "Untouchable" is a perfect album for a new independent hip hop listener, or one who is looking for a sampler platter of gritty indie hip hop. But, whichever category you might fall under-- it's all tastes good.

Favorite Tracks: Sick Rhymes, Playtime's Over
What to do (Buy/Try/Frisbee): Buy.
Digits:7.5 // 10




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The White Shadow Of Norway
Untouchable
Uncut Poductions | 2008

A thousand years after the Norsemen conquered Europe, Norway's White Shadow is on a quest to do the same anno 2008. And not only Europe, because with a guest list composed of some of the US's most respectable rappers in the underground community, he's ready to pull the same trick on American soil too.

Since the early nineties, he’s been making noise in New York (collaborations with BDP and Jamalski), Belgium (through a B9000 Rec release featuring Maylay Sparks and Grand Agent), Milwaukee (through his Pizdamen collabos), and just recently he produced on Army Of The Pharaohs and Celph Titled albums. 'Untouchable' is his second solo production album, two years after 'Renegades', showing what White Shadow is capable of, through long-time production and turntable experience and building up a solid network of US rappers.

With 15 tracks deep, this compilation is a gathering of either raunchy boom-bap and vicious basslines ('Sick Rhymes' featuring an excellent Reef the Lost Cauze 'I'm much hungier than all of you ànd I'm poor' or the mystic 'That’s That Shit' with L.I.F.E. Long a.o.) or, at the other hand, slammin funk drums with witty, playful rhymes (in the Pizdamen featured 'Without A Shadow Of A Doubt', 'Untouchable' with Chicago's Matlock and Verbal Kent or 'Bringin It Back pt 2' with Esoteric and Mic Stylz, the latter showing Shadow’s undying love for the 90's era).

Throughout it all, 'laser' (sci-fi even)-samples are scratched faster than his own Shadow (the solo at the end of 'Sick With It') and twisted samples ('Playtime's Over') add to the trademark sound that the White Shadow is known for. The one track that differs from the overall sound is 'LA California' featuring Alkaholik Tash (not really surprising because it’s the only track not produced by Shadow, but only containing his scratches) but a veteran on your album is certainly not nefast for one’s selling figures. And let this be an album that deserves to be sold like ice cream on a hot summer day, because it got that freshness all over.

posted by: cpf | 02-24-2008 | rated: mighty phat

RATES
Classic:
10

Topnotch:
9-9.5

Mighty Phat:
8.5-9

Phat:
7.5-8.5

Nice:
6.5-7.5

Aight:
5.5-6.5

So & So:
4-5.5

Rubbish:
0-4