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Pharcyde

Frank Broughton, Mixmag, May 1993

LAYERS OF sophisticated jazz are slinking their way through your speakers. Smokey strains of Blue Note beats collide with the mastery of John Coltrane, Donald Byrd and Lou Donaldson. And then four cartoon voices chime up with breakneck freestyle rapping, looney tune skits and blunted Californian madness. And it works. It kills in fact.

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