K Os - ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL

K-os
ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL
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K-os has completed his third album, Atlantis - Hymns for Disco, for early 2007 release in the U.S. Already a platinum-plus artist in his native Canada, k-os arrives at U.S. alternative and pop radio as a confirmed rule-breaker. With this deeply expressive new album, k-os claims a place among such genre-blending, out-of-the-box visionaries as the Beastie Boys, Beck, Gnarls Barkley, Lupe Fiasco and OutKast.

Track for track, Atlantis - Hymns for Disco emerges as a highly personal work with a breadth of style that is, at once, imposing proof of an uncontainable talent, a salute to the adventuresome taste of his followers, and an in-your-face creative challenge thrown down to songwriters, producers, singers and rappers everywhere.

Atlantis - Hymns for Disco runs through as a series of brilliant, uncategorizable tracks, the first official U.S. single, "Sunday Morning," "flypaper," "Born To Run," and "Black Ice - Hymn for Disco" among the highlights -- every one of them addictively rhythmic and brim-full of melody. Also among the album's kaleidoscopically diverse pleasures: an ingeniously mashed-up trip back to day one of pop music's big bang, "Equalizer;" and also "ELEctrik HeaT - the seekwiLL" and "CatDiesel," both based on classic break-beat loops and old-school rhyming style.

k-os was raised in the suburban Toronto area. He chose his professional name to reflect the "knowledge of self." He first impressed the local music scene with two singles in the mid-1990s. His second album, 2004's Joyful Rebellion, has now sold nearly double-platinum in Canada, and the single "Crabbuckit" is universally credited as a landmark in Canadian progressive hip-hop. He has shared the stage with such forward-looking artists as India.Arie, Floetry and John Legend - the latter of whom opened for k-os before a sellout crowd of 16,000 at Toronto's Molson Amphitheater.