THE TRICKY TAPE

Walasia Noor Shabazz
3 min readMar 12, 2023

Hus Kingpin’s minimalist, avant-garde music & art series continues with “The Tricky Tape” available on all streaming platforms March 13, 2023 with collectible vinyl, CDs and ephemera via Wavo3000.com

Trick·y /ˈtrikē/

adjective ~ (of a task, problem, or situation) requiring care and skill due to being difficult or awkward: “juggling more than one woman can be a tricky business.”

NB: Tricky is a Bristol, UK-born Trip-Hop artist renown for his seamless blends of Rock and Hip Hop who was nominated for the Mercury Prize in 1995. He began to “meddle in music” at the age of 15, eventually forming the group that would become Massive Attack.

THE TRICKY TAPE

Hus Kingpin is back with the latest in his avant-garde series of EP and LP releases. The Tricky Tape takes the listener from Bristol to Brasil, NY to LA, and to a realm where there is only Sound. This is where the parallels to his prior thematics like PortisHus end as TTT is half homage, half homicide on wax.

From the gate, Hus Kingpin asserts himself as the star of this show, flowing over a deep, ambient soundscape reminiscent of Tricky’s legendary works — but Hus…

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Walasia Noor Shabazz
Walasia Noor Shabazz

Written by Walasia Noor Shabazz

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