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Pete Miser is a hip hop (”rap”) artist from New York (via Portland, OR) whom I’ve never heard of before. Probably you’ve never heard of him either. But his style is very clean and polished, and his music is so full of life and character that it sounds effortless in spite of its complexity.

His new video, Scent of a Robot, is making waves. Even before he had his official video party last month in new York, the video was shot around the world on the internet. It was on British television, much to Miser’s surprise. Why a hit? It’s fresh and clean and little bit geeky. It doesn’t reference porn, denigrate women or inflate the artist, and that’s unfortunately rare in today’s hip hop scene.

Miser explains the song in a recent interview over at FeelingAnxious.com:

“It’s super fresh,” he said. Created by UV Phactory in New York City, the video is part computer animation, part film. “It’s about this guy who works in an office at a company that designs robots. One day he gets an email that his boss accidentally sent to him and it has these descriptions of the robots. Then the guy realizes that he’s just one of the robots that they make,” explained Miser.

The lyric goes like this: I’m a robot, programmed not to know that I’m a robot but some bonehead emailed me the computer code that makes up my soul. Now I’m running around trying to forget what I know.

If he doesn’t get slashdotted or idiotworked soon, I’ll be surprised.

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