The Spacetones
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The Spacetones

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"Review: “Moon Tunes,” by the Spacetones"

Success in hip hop is like balancing a pin on its head–the slightest miscalculation can send everything down the slippery slope to flopdom. As a result, the most common course to take is one that requires no calculations at all; just copy what someone else successfully did and watch your own pin stand up, too, albeit for less time than the original. Then there are those delightful mavericks who don’t care if the pin stands up at all, since they’ve already bent it into a pretty shape of their own and it looks just fine laying down, thank you. Consider the Spacetones members of the latter group.

From the outset of Moon Tunes, the group flies in the face of every convention it can find. Beats made to play in the club? Nah. Southern-drawl lyrical delivery? Pass. Instead, rapper Tahmipee, beatmaker Casey and turntablist DJ Geeg craft an album as agile and cohesive as anything the local hip hop scene has produced while laying out a soundscape as expansive at the group’s name suggests. There are a lot of nods to old-school artists on this album, such as A Tribe Called Quest to Del tha Funkee Homosapien, and with many P-Funk-influenced guitar tones and vocal treatments to round out the early-’90s feel. It’s shameless homage that varies enough to avoid feeling derivative, which is a coup for a group just two years into its existence. The space theme suggested by the group name and album title is present but not pushed to excess, which is nice since work this good shouldn’t be dismissed as a gimic. The Spacetones have the goods to make music that bends their pin however they want, and in doing so it frequently stands up.
- thefourfour.com - By thederosh


Discography

Serving You Something Tasty [LP 2006]

Moon Tunes [LP 2008] free at http://www.archive.org/details/TheSpacetones-MoonTunes.2008

Tah Mii Pee's currently untitled solo debut [LP sometime soon 2010]

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The Spacetones bring a fresh perspective to the ever growing hip-hop scene. DJ Geeg brings the trios hot productions to the stage with while mixing in the newest, most progressive beats of the scene. MCs Tah Mii Pee and Chuckmo round out the group with original rhymes and lyric.
In their hometown of Springfield, Missouri; the Spacetones represent the live scene with an almost weekly appearance at LemonDrop nights downtown. [LemonDrop was originally a record label co-founded by the groups own MC Chuckmo (who occasionally mixes live video for The Spacetones, too) . LemonDrop is now an over-arching organization that helps “nurture local creative culture.” ] The group’s live show is constantly evolving with songs from their debut LP “MoonTunes” and the upcoming solo debut of MC Tah Mii Pee.
The trio has also gained attention recently with opening gigs with the Digable Planet’s Doodlebug and Butterfly, Big Gigantic, and Tennessee’s own Lord T and Eloise. The Spacetones continue to grow, gain new fans, and bring the party wherever they play.