ULTRAMAGNETIC MC’s ‘Critical Beats’

In ‘88 there was a storm coming. The short-lived Ultramagnetic MCs hit the hip hop scene like a runaway train. Critical Beats was released the same year as Public Enemy’s ‘It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back’ and Boogie Down Productions’ ‘By Any Means Necessary’. Introducing Ced-Gee, Kool Keith, Moe Luv, and T, to the world. The crew gelled with a clash of street and studio wizardry – here’s the first album to use a SP1200 drum machine which would become a new standard. In reflection, this was the Ultramagnetics debut, and it’s still stands as one of the freshest productions. Remember, The Prodigy obsessed over it and plundered it.