Skyscraper Stereo

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BY BRENT OWEN For the past decade, Louisville’s musical focus has been dominated by My Morning Jacket, while artists as varied as Wax Fang, VHS or Beta and Ben Sollee have emerged as contenders. Skyscraper Stereo is ready to be added to that mix. Their latest release, Homebois in Outer Space (Little Heart Records), might very well be the best hip-hop album you’ll hear all year. Period. Skyscraper Stereo might also be the only group around that can namedrop Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix next to Lil Wayne, Notorious B.I.G. and Kanye West without any sense of irony. “I don’t really listen to much hip-hop at all,” says rapper/producer Jawon “Chuck Deuce” Dunn as he sips iced coffee in front of the Starbucks at Baxter and Cherokee. “I started as a guitar player, so Led Zeppelin is huge, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix — all of that is what I listen to.” The group has been working together for five years, starting with Jawon and Daniel “Goodbar” Guess. Skyscraper Stereo began to mesh when the duo brought in Jawon’s brother Landry “Dat Boi Dunn” Dunn and Yao “DJ Fluid” Hong. “We used to fight over G.I. Joes; now we fight over music. It just changes themes,” Landry says of their creative/familial dynamic. “He always wanted to be Storm Shadow. He’d never give me Storm Shadow; I had to be Snake Eyes.” “I wanted to be Snake Eyes, and you wouldn’t give him to me!” Jawon interrupts. “But that’s another story.” They recorded their new album at Dunn’s father’s home off Newburg R