"It's a stunning album, all textured, atmospheric genius and tweaked streams of rhyme, and about as far from the hip hop run of the mill as you can imagine... anything goes, everything's an option."

"Gamma understand the need to put on a show. They hit the stage bursting with energy. They proceed to rock the mic with a passion that matches the intelligence to be found on their new album. Their tooth-loosening production is rough enough to rip the surface off a road. A man next to me notes that he can feel the bass in places only his girlfriend normally touches."

"Deeply compelling, at times disturbing listening and, unusually for Big Dada, often enchantingly beautiful."

"The real dynamism of the wonderfully cliche-free lyrics offers a unique insight into a subculture that remains largely undocumented."

"Original, dynamic and intelligent hip hop for the UK audience, constructed by some of the freshest and most enthusiastic artists this side of World Service."

"Big Dada's latest heavyweight mentalists Gamma jumped and shouted tracks from their hyper(in)tense debut album Permanament. True to their title's neological combination of permanent and firmament, Gamma were militantly polysyllabic, equal parts Afro-futurist anger and bruised Brit agitation."

"UK hip hop just keeps getting better and better."

"Gamma aren't going to languish in a parochial ghetto. Talent is their engine, anger is their fuel and the future is their destination."

"Even amid the goldrush of high quality UK-derived hip hop over the last year or so, Gamma are a name to watch more closely than most. They could possibly be the finest exponents of urban homegrown since Roots Manuva. 'Permanament' caps a vintage year for Big Dada and announces the emergence of a major new talent."

"Gamma, like Roots Manuva before them, mark something of a new dawn for homegrown hip-hop, a respite from the faux-Americanisms, watered-down breakbeats and the general follow my-leader mind-set currently afflicting the scene."

"Another fine hip hop album... with a unique sound. Their influences clearly include raw electronica, but it takes nothing away from their ability to rip up the mic with strong lyrics and forceful flows."

"A Big Dada LP is always something to look forward to; yet a feat to anticipate as you never know quite what to expect. The consistent quality of past releases continues here with Gamma. I do hope the masses that got into Mr Manuva's works last year will sniff this out because this carries with it an equally striking sense of originality - and longevity to boot. Intelligence, wit, styles are all in frothing abundance here. A well-meshed marriage of soul and science. Listen to their content and get with the program."

"This brain-scrambling slab of sonic darkness eschews the banal 'four elements' badinage usually served up by trite MCs who front like they're from Brooklyn and not, in fact, Balham, to produce a titanic album that'll blow all but the most sublime UK mic-slingers away with its righteous black light. Afro-Punk - a noise you won't be able to ignore, a sound-quake whose aftershocks will be felt far into the future."

"Gamma's MCs resemble what ragga baritones like Tiger or Lexxus would sound like if they had read William Burroughs and watched John Carpenter flicks."

"Assaulting conformists with sandpaper-tongued street poetry and a boredom-defying audio armoury, Gamma further the advances made by Roots Manuva and New Flesh For Old, cultivating their caribbean roots and delivering battle rhymes for their alien nation. A victory for hip hop heretics."

"Through the clouds of smoke and noise step Gamma, Brum-rappers who play their debut London show. Moving like lethal preachers, they lay down fiercely psychedelic rap assaults like 'Prang!', dripping a very voodoo magic, kicking to kill."

"This is subterranean, determinedly gloomy black secret technology peppered with the kind of fucked-up bass trauma and lyrical miserabilism Big Dada are starting to make their own. Sink your fangs and get poisoned."

"Emerging through the swirling mists of history are the black Atlantians, to restructure UK hip hop. New Flesh's Juice Aleem leads his fellow abstract word wizards into more earthy beatscapes laced with spooky organs."

"Not for those who like their shit weak."