Play With Toys

Play with Toys is the debut album of Basehead has been voted one of the top 50 albums of 1992 in Q magazine, and listed as number 43 in NME’s top albums of 1992. The album was originally released in limited quantities on the Emigre label [ECD 005] and was subsequently re-released on a larger label, Imago, with some of the tracks altered to remove samples that had not been cleared prior to its initial release. The music style of Play with Toys fuses elements of blues, funk, hip hop, pop, psychedelic and reggae, and is often regarded as alternative hip hop and alternative rock. David Jeffries described Play with Toys as "slacker rap". According to Michael Ivey, "There are hip-hop elements in there, but if a hardcore hip-hop fan bought it,...