Yet DJBB is not in fact a big band, but a four-member group with the right instruments operating in multi-gear as a hip-hop band. There’s such variety in their music that labeling them as hip-hop masters just doesn’t do them justice. At the heart of the band is the talented MC Tommy Lindgren, and much of the music is more or less in the vein of hip-hop featuring rhythm music’s many forms reinterpreted in new ways.

DJBB is at its best live, but Breaking Daylight includes many tracks in which the group’s energy is captured at its best such as the hits “One MC, One Delay” and the ragga-flavored “Jah Jah Blow Job.”

Lindgren’s English-language rap stands up to international comparison and the band’s playing simply can’t be knocked. Many reviewers would award them five stars (out of five) but I’ll leave the fanatic praise to the trend press.

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