fattaru - hörde jag skål (svensk bas remix)

when fattaru hit the swedish hiphop scene they went off with a bang. their first single was fast and was their whole album treaded the bounce sound of timbland and his comrades. fattaru was unapologetic in their sound and was unlike their clickmates fjärde världen not neo-traditionalists*. the thing was when swedish hiphop had a major boom in turn of the millenium there was constant references to the traditional values of hiphop. every new hiphop believer that repped their wu-wear to their fullest was going on and on about the elements of hiphop and how important it was to keep it real and all that jazz.

fattaru didn't care about any of that and were looking forward and constantly on the search for beats that wasn't the norm. the bounce of the first album and near drum & bass rhythms of the demo tracks was however changed completely to down to earth beats for the second album. mackan price said that he was sick of bounce and was more interested in doing something else than what he was doing before. however their second album was not a big success like the first album but instead of going back to bounce and just try to get some more of that fame they kept on looking forward.

for their third album you heard a new soundscape with influences of uk grime, dub, ghettotech and (what would known as) skweee. there was no compromising in their vision of what hiphop meant to them and it's most apparent in price and stuffe's productions post fattaru where price has become a prolific beatsmith with a pallet like none other. So for their first single they released a 3 tracker with each (rapping) member doing their own solo effort. notably markus price aka mackan would do 100:- with a beat signed pavan (of moder jords massiva and of flogsta danshall) which was nothing i have ever heard before. it really was some other shit and it really blew my mind.

so when i found the cdsingle of second single 'hörde jag skål', i knew i found gold. I had heard the main track before and it was this wicked track which had a backdrop which was really stripped down. It was more or less just some heavy 808 bass kicks, some shuffling percussion and additional melodics and bass. it was excellent but the version to head to is the svensk bas remix done by markus price as his basutbudet project (it was however first known as just svensk bas). a straightforward footwork/ghettotech banger which kicks like no other. get this. now.

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*the funny thing about fjärde världen being the more traditionalist is the fact that tom piha (of said group) later ditched this pathos and had a bigger career in his solo project as max peezay. piha started rapping over grime and would later on his second lp rap over drum & bass and other forms of uk bass music.