Fans of hip-hop will love this young performer, who also bills himself as working in the industrial and experimental music areas.

Adrian H. Molina’s new collection Up Before the Sunrise (2008 CHiTT Productions) is apparently the work of a “sucka free writer, mic ripper, poet, and performance artist.” He says, “Artistically, my loyalty lies with Dustin Neal and Will Ross. We don’t give a CHiTT if our sound ain’t bourgeois–It still kicks ass.”

The tune, “Skydreamer” from this new CD is also hip-hop, but I must admit there is some nice instrumentation behind the vocals. The extra vocals are nice.

“Beyond Sundown” has an eerie feel to it. It also reminds this listener to some of the late night sound-track music you hear on high-budget movies starring Pierce Brosnan or Bill Murray (Lost in Translation). I’m not sure why it brings that to mind.

Molina lists influences such as “poets, painters, musicians, free thinkers who don’t conform to the mold, people who openly criticize power structures without apologies, chile rellenos and fresh fish, a good cheap bottle of wine, visions, water, swaying trees, abstract conceptions of reality.”

Maybe it’s best to just leave it at this- rap, hip-hop, the non-singing genres have to be about the lyrics, the meaning of the words. Molina says, I’m not your average emcee. My music doesn’t sound like traditional Hip-Hop, much less a classic fusion of Rock and Hip-Hop. It’s raw, fresh, and creative.”

Fine. Check him out in the great western states.

Adrian H. Molina at MySpace

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