WWW – Tanec Sekyr

• WWW . Tanec sekyr
• 2008 . Czech
• experimental.electronic.abstract hip-hop

Czech music scene sucks. Last interesting performer who had some talent was Antonin Dvorak who died billions of years ago. After that, the communists seized country and degenerated listeners taste for forty years with their russian-friendly music. Consequence is that we are now simply satisfied to go to watch fucking musicals with crapy pop singers, listening Bono, Jagger and other groups of walking undeads, without any interest to discover or create anything “progressive”. The most progressive genre what you can get in Czech is indie rock at the most, but even the best of them are qualitatively comparable to an afternoon jamming of three retarded fifteen years old british students.

The end of the nineties brought some promises, primarily in terms of electronic music (Escon Waldes, Juanita Juarez, EOST, Khoiba), but all good projects either finished or people behind them just went crazy (formerly great Muchow now composes music for cheesy TV series,Sunshine became a successful copy of copy of copy of copy of copy of Bloc Party)

So and now try to imagine, how proud we are to have band like WWW, which is anything but a conventional. Because I have no idea how to describe them, I took next few lines from last.fm: WWW aka We Want Words was formed in 90′, however their first proper release, Neurobeat, was out in 2006.Lubomír Typlt’s surrealist poems rapped and recited by the vocalist Ondřej Anděra (aka Sifon) in synergy with Anděra’s rather hard industrial music sampled from various field recordings amalgamate into a ponderous existential experience with a very characteristic dark sound.

Their second album, today posted Tanec sekyr (Dance of axes) is the direct successor of Neurobeat. WWW’s eased off a bit of aggression and sampled layers and made a tiny step from abstract hip-hop towards a progressive, experimental, electronic music, which is still dominated by an incredible recitation of singer Sifon.

For foreigners who do not speak Czech is the biggest stumbling block lyrics, which are, paradoxically, the greatest weapon of this band. But even if you don’t understand it’s still definitely worth trying out, because this is without a doubt the best Czech record of all time (it doesn’t sounds like compliment at all), which can withstands in comparasion with the best abstract hip-hop record’s.

Lexikon from debut album Neurobeat: