A.C amd Terra In England 12" Sometimes, with no hype or fanfare, you stumble on tracks that make you go, “Oh shit!” simply because they are so different from the rest of the tracks currently doing the rounds. I think this slab of vinyl emanated from the East End of London but background details are as shady as a winter afternoon. The concept behind the track is as bold as the St. George’s Cross on the inner label; no flowery shit or fluffy lyrics here, just an onslaught of lines that paint as vivid a picture of what it’s like to live in Blighty right now as anything I’ve heard in recent times. Over a no nonsense beat that sounds a little like the backdrop to the Skinny verse on Fingerprints (that’s big sounding with some tough as fuck drums to match), A.C and Terra smack you in the face with line after line of brute truth including everything from racist attitudes, to white girls on the tip, to KFC, to Tube etiquette, to what they’ll do with their best friends fiancée given half the chance. What makes it sound so fresh is that it doesn’t conform to the same template a lot of emcees and DJs are using on the current circuit. This is more like a no shit blast of aggression you’d have expected to hear from Gunshot or Hardnoise a decade ago. It’s a totally agged-out blast of uncompromising vocal expression. If it sounds like your type of tune then check lauelau@hotmail.com for the hook-up. - Eddie Venom © ukhh.com 1999 - 2002