Final Fantasy meets Andrew Bird meets hip-hop. ...wait, what?

The entire thing is just too surreal and hilarious to pass up. As it turns out Owen Pallette, the violin looping musician otherwise known by his ridiculus monicker, Final Fantasy, paired up recently with Canadian emcee (okay, we can all stop giggling about Canadian hip-hop now) Cadence Weapon to perform some live music.

I did a little digging and found that Cadence Weapon is pretty damn awesome, in a Anti-Pop Consortium kind of way. Beautiful, fractured beats with an electronic/experimental bent. So they go and perform "Sharks" from his album, with Pallette providing underlying violin loops. If that's not enough for this violin worshiping, hip-hop loving blogger, Pallette decided to build the loops quoting from Andrew Bird's tracks, Imitosis and A Nervous Tic Motion Of The Head To The Left ending with Cadence quoting the latter's lyrics.

One can only imagine how this blogger reacted (I always keep a spare pair of pants around for just such an occasion.) The results are not as awful as one could expect, in fact I shook my booty violently. And the best part, it introduced me to some great hip-hop.

Now the Andrew Bird fan in me has to ask, is this move an homage, a compliment? Or has Pallette thrown the musical gauntlet down expecting some type of challenge. That can only mean one thing... LOOP BATTLE!!!!!!! Begging the question, who will MC for Bird? Following the Anti Pop Consortium tip, I'm putting my money down for Beans.

Give this booty shakin' track a listen