With the Dirty Loop collective having defined itself as a purveyor of the most twisted of hip-hop beats, it comes as little surprise to find the 30 tracks which make up
Radioinactive's debut full-length behemoth as messed up as anything they have released to date. The lo-fi production values prove the only effective counter to the schizophrenic delivery of lyricist Radio, but even with the beats simple, they still find themselves flustered by the endless stream of crazed verbals -- with the collapse of the eight-track on "Bop Nightmare," the inevitable mechanical option for the overworked machinery, lone trumpeter Todd Simon left to hustle the depths of his improvisational resources to throw together some melodics before the track is chewed into chaos. The resultant aural complexity amounts to one of the tougher listening experiences to be found in the Mush catalog, but will offer endless joy to those in search of something advanced. ~ Kingsley Marshall