Boom Bip is a Cincinnati-based hip-hop artist whose command of the human beatbox and sample salvage has few equals beside Rahzel the Godfather of Noise. After playing in several bands during high school, he became a DJ in 1993 while attending college in Cincinnati. Offbeat turntablist methods gradually raised his profile, and he began recording for the Lex label. During 2001, Boom Bip collaborated on an LP with rapper Doseone and provided remixes for Four Tet and Jamie Lidell. He also began a series of breaks records (Doo Doo Breaks) for the Mush label and, in 2002, released his solo debut, Seed to Sun, as part of a contract between Lex and Britain's pres­tigious Warp. Blue Eyed in the Red Room followed in 2005. Two years later, after producing Busdriver's Ro­adKillOvercoat, Boom Bip released the Sacchrilege EP, a poppier and noticeably more danceable set of songs. His next project was Neon Neon, a collaboration with Super Furry Animals' Gruff Rhys that produced an album (Stainless Style) of fascinating '80s throwback electro and new wave, earning a nomination for the 2008 Mercury Music Prize as well. He returned to the solo ranks in 2011 with Zig Zaj, recorded for Lex. Two years later the label released Music for Sleeping Children, a collaborative effort designed to accompany the photographs of visual artist Charlie White.

Seed to Sun is the debut album by Boom Bip. It was released in September 2002 on Lex Records.

Miss Kittin performed “Last Walk Around Mirror Lake (Boards of Canada Remix)” live at the Sónar festival and included it on her album Live at Sónar.

Review:

Boom Bip, a Cincinnati producer/DJ (roughly in that order), comes from a long line of twisted hip-hop mentalists, stretching from Biz Markie to Company Flow to Kid Koala. And listeners expecting something special from an unknown granted a licensing to the quality-control experts at Warp won't be disappointed by Seed to Sun; it's experimental hip-hop being done on a level reached by few producers out there. More experimental, rangier, and lighter than any Co-Flow material, but more producer-driven than Kid Koala's records, the album encompasses analog electronics, beat-heavy experimental techno, turntablist scratching, and dozens of mostly unrecognizable samples (one strain that briefly emerges from the soup: B.J. Thomas' “Everybody's Out of Town”). Surprisingly, Seed to Sun is also very melodic, audible even when Boom Bip layers dense beats and samples over his tracks, as on “Closed Shoulders.” For “The Unthinkable,” one of the few vocal tracks, guest Buck 65 comes off like a countrified rapper produced by El-P. The other top-notch vocal comes from Dose One (from Anticon), prefacing a Cypress Hill-goes-pop chorus on “Mannequin Hand Trapdoor I Reminder” with some paranoid musings. Nothing against El-P; he's a great producer, and deserves most of the hype he's gotten. It's just that Seed to Sun does what he does so much better.
All Music Guide – John Bush