Babel Fishh - North Star - daveydreadnot

Start: Aug. 17, 2013, midnight

BABEL FISHH (Houston, TX)
http://knertz.bandcamp.com/album/wed-rather-not
Babel Fishh (aka Scott Huber) produces a masterful blend of hard hitting beats with thrashing sound samples, major metal riffs, and off the cuff lyrical assaults. This heat absorbing Texan has worked with many noteworthy artists including a rare split with Astronautalis and collaborations with beat artists Tenshun, Edison, Oskar Ohlson, FRKSE, and Filkoe. More recently he joined native Texas Evak for a collaboration as Prison Soup. Member of the 667 Guild, Huber produces dark, lasting hip hop in a style many have trouble putting into words.

Fishh's style resembles that of the Bay Area weird-rap Anticon collective more than anything else -- he employs the same kind of flat, deadpan delivery and too-damn smart metaphors as cLOUDDEAD, as well as some of the smart-ass sarcasm wielded by Slug of Atmosphere. If you couldn't guess it from the Douglas Adams-inspired stagename, Babel Fishh is less of an alley-hardened battle rapper and more of a geeky, deep-thinking street poet, with a touch of both sci-fi freak Mike Ladd and ex-Soul Coughing frontman/poet M. Doughty to the whole mess.