Five Deez - Pt. 3: Kommunicator / Induce Posted by independent j

When The Silence Is Gone - Five Deez. from Kommunicator on Rapster (2006). Faceless (Induce Remix) - Five Deez from the Vapors Project 12" on Counterflow (2001). Note: I was inspired to write a series of posts about Five Deez and their producer Fat Jon recently, so this will be a multi-part post. The Five Deez stuff will be here over the next week or so and so as not to clog up site from my fellow posters the Fat Jon posts will be over at www.criticalbeatdowns.com. Please use the comments to let me know if this works well or not. Last of the Five Deez posts features my favorite track from their latest album Kommunicator, "When The Silence Is Gone." The third album brings the Deez to their third label, but they are still consistently inventive and pumping out the good music. I cannot say that album comes across as a completely different from Koolmotor and Kinkynasti, as they once promised, but instead is a really nice mingling of the two. "Silence" is another multi-part Fat Jon production workout with the rapper waiting until 1.5 minutes passes to jump into a song that is sleigh bells, dubby/echoey/filtered vocals, and marching band drums in equal measure. Then boom, we get a mid-point transition to a somewhat sparse bass pulse and snare percussion backing and piling up vocals while the sleigh bells continue. Commercial hip hop this is not. However, the album also features really fun, bouncey tracks like "So Good" and "BMW" that sound like they could have been made by pre-bodybuilder Timbaland. The album isn't as uniform in its sound as either of their first two efforts, but it is one of my favorite albums so far this year (in what is turning out to be a pretty tight field). Boom, Fat Jon style abrupt transition...I also put up a really excellent remix of Five Deez's track "Faceless" from back in the Koolmotor days by the underhyped Induce. He left the vocals alone for the most part other than some filtering (interesting choice since the beat is so organic), but put together a nice upright bass and funk drums beat. Induce's intricate drum programming is showcased in the long outro breakdown that begins at 4 minutes with the rather obvious "let the drummer get wicked" lead in.