While the legions of children will put on their best costumes on October 31 for Halloween next month, Outkast will offer another type of treat: a luxury reissue of the 25th anniversary of their fourth album, Stankonia.
The very famous LP cements the members Big Boi and André 3000 as official scientists official of hip-hop, as They combined a meli-melo of sounds and influences, such as blues, gospel, rave and funk.
Stankonia was also the 1998 follow -up RashThe album that showed the duo of Atlanta leaning into their respective group roles – Big Boi being the Sage, the street prophet of space age, and Andre the eclectic poet, who seemed to go to other dimensions between the albums and head directly to the studio when he returned.
Bonus and works of art
So to celebrate Stankoniabirthday, The reissue will include three vinyl recordsNew works of art manufactured by André 3000, and an album cover Gatefold. Photos never seen before seeing Stankonia Promotion days and a brilliant poster in the dark will also be included.
In addition, some bonus tracks will be added: “Speed Ballin ‘”, which was heard for the first time on the 2001 soundtrack for the action film, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, “Sole Sunday”, with the Goodie Mob, and the remixes of StankoniaThe first single, “bob”
Birthday edition will be ready to buy on October 31But fans can pre -order it now and start buying goods specially made from October 2.
Outkast wanted to rebel against rap standards in 2000
Undoubtedly,, a few Stankonia The songs are now considered to be Outkast staples, such as “Mrs. Jackson” and “Bob”, but in an interview of 2001, André said that he did not know how music would be received, because she was outside the musical standards of rap at the time.
He was clear in this conversation that He and Big Bo And creativity had reached a low point.
“Something should happen … because for the moment I think, as, personally, it is a bit like in a real commercial state,” said anxious Australian radio host Rosie Beaton on the triple station J.
“Something new to come, however, something to bring him to the heart,” he added. “We knew that we wanted this sound to be like a rebellious sound … We wanted to be a bit like a rebellion against what hip-hop was doing at the time. This is why I think the album seems so different from what was going on.”
THE Stankonia The reissue will be published on the inherited recordings, and Pre -orders can be purchased on their website.
Source: Triple J via ABC.net
