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3730 N Clark St
773.549.0203
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RJD2
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Saturday Mar 13, 2010 (9pm)
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$21
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You had to respect his restlessness, but when the great hip-hop collagist RJD2 made a bid for pop songwriting with 2007's The Third Hand, the result was a bewildering farrago of inherited indie signifiers and chunky beats. Luckily, Ramble John seems happy to let that part of his past remain a foreign country: The Colossus — his first self-produced, self-released album — in large part hearkens back to his Deadringer days, with sampledelic instrumentals and effortlessly woven vocal spots, while still looking forward with more organic instrumentation and a diminished reliance on Def Jux-approved rap spots. Where RJ once seemed intent on negating his early triumphs, these days he's genuinely expanding upon them.
