Ego War, the new full length artist album by west London’s bad boys the Audio Bullys, is an unmixed artist production which has elements of breakbeat, garage, and hip-hop. Audio Bullys’ unique sound would be hard to put in one type of genre.
”Way Too Long”, the third track, features an Elvis Costello guitar riff sample blended with a garage beat with some scratching and other effects. It is quite nice indeed. The song “Real Life,” a real party track, works a crunchy, electro clash bassline with some great effects and an emcee style on the mic. “Real Life” is a complete Audio Bullys’ original production, free of any samples. Another non-sampled track is “The Tyson Shuffle” which has a jam band (i.e. Sublime) type of sound to it with a very rhythmic bassline and some ghastly vocals. The albun slows down a bit with the track “The Things” which has a flanger type effect on the vocals and a light touch of horns. Coming up near the end is a quite housy track called “I Go to Your House,” which is funky and very well titled.
The CD ends with the title track, “Ego War,” a great summarization of the whole CD – broken beat and very fun. Just when you think it’s over at 4 minutes 36 seconds the CD continues till about 8 minutes. A hidden track chimes in that is real downtempo and gives shout outs to there fallen homies - a good way to wrap up this innovative CD. The Audio Bullys have there own style of electronic music and they aren’t afraid to show it.
