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Page 1: North Star Ressurrec ReviewBy Poli Bou
Wednesday, May 9th, 2001
Background
North Star Resurrec is the first group album from Mujestic Records. This self-titled album is also the first official release from Mujestic with all tracks containing their own original samples. Its an accomplished contrast to the earlier demo by Prach with Dalama or more popularly known as Khmer Rap in Cambodia where many of the tracks contain samples from other artists.
First Impressions
Personally, when I get a new CD, I quickly go through the tracks looking for potential favorites. Then I go back play each song in order in its entirety. While scanning the first half of the album, none of tracks especially caught my attention. I thought to myself this is not good, nothing to anticipate and really soak up and enjoy when I go back to really listen to them. The second half shows a glimmer of light as several of the tracks begin to set themselves apart. Before I go into detail about the album and each track there are a few things that caught my attention during the initial scan. Although there are sixteen tracks on the album, about half of them are skits. The skits themselves are very short with most of them lasting under thirty seconds. This makes the album a very short piece of musical work. The next thing to note is the similar sounds between some of the tracks. However, on the positive note, I did notice an improvement in the track layout and recording quality over Mujestics demo release of Dalama. Even with this, if the first impression were all that you had, you could easily be turned away from this album.
Looking Closer
Of course, it doesnt do justice to just look at the surface of anything. Only after several listens do you really begin to realize the musical content contained on this CD. The album opens with eerie beats accompanied with haunting descriptions of Armageddon taking you on a journey through the destruction of the earth and the return. Throughout the album, there is the reinforced idea of cycles and resurrection. This is a nice intellectual inclusion in honor of the groups name. How far this idea extends is up to judgment of each listener. Could it mean the rebirth of the artist? Maybe even the Cambodian people in general? Or perhaps nothing at all, but only the members of North Star Resurrec will know for sure.
The album does a great job of setting up their vocal sounds. You can easily distinguish their style as one full of complex lyrics and rhymes. Although quite a few tracks sound similar, the vast amount of vocal variety clearly shows the groups ability. One thing that I noticed lacking was the nice mix of complementing background vocals to the main rap line that was so smoothly done in Dalama.
Out of the total sixteen tracks on the album, six of them are extremely short skits. Each piece helps to create the total picture of the group. The samples for each track are stylishly done by XL and SOBO.
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