SLUG Magazine Review Of ESGC !

April 9, 2008

SLUG Magazine Review Of ESGC !

Ecid
Economy Size goDD Costume
Fill In The Breaks
Street: 10.16.07
Ecid = Kristoff Krane + Impulse
Minnesota is home to a plethora of talented hip-hop artists thriving among the region's hydrogen-rich lake landscape. Particularly conspicuous in this fertile field is Ecid, an emcee who has taken the do-it-yourself lesson of the area's numerous success stories to heart. With a penchant for crafting sinister imagery and flipping American clichés into semiotic finger traps, Ecid shows a complex understanding of contemporary American identity. "You could have it all / and it still wouldn't be good enough." Economy Size goDD Costume is full of such Marxist critiques, not to mention experiments of the unconscious, American mythology and self-deception. Did I mention he makes his own beats: dirty, dusty, drum loops and weirdly appropriate esoteric samples? Ecid is a self-sustaining, dynamic artist who has something to say-whether or not the music industry's stagnant paradigm wants to hear it. -Makena Walsh