Rjd2 - Dead Ringer

His debut LP for Definitive Jux, DJ/producer Rjd2's Dead Ringer is a deeply creative and musically poignant hip-hop record for summer 2002. Creating a raging underground listenership from a series of 45s and white labels and being the only non-MC signed to Def Jux, Rjd2's talent as a DJ and as producer, to match beats and lay cult/pop gems over dusty soul tracks, is paralleled only by people like Dj Shadow and Z-trip. However, his ability to record and marry MCs to his primarily instrumental and sample-based style is evidenced in outstanding tracks with Copywrite and Blueprint as well as his legacy with The Mhz crew; at the end of day that puts our man from Ohio ahead of his primarily one-dimensional peer group. Read More