The Sa Ra Creative Partners Thread, finally...

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ok, i've dropped their name in like 20threads already, but figured since no one responded that i wouldn't make a thread (as to not take over the Common thread). they really are my favorite act right now.

it's 3 dudes out of LA making retro/future soul/funk. it sounds like prince meets funkadelic meets the neptunes meets the offbeat production style of Jay Dee (Detroit Downbeat, heh). lots of wicked synths and weirdo falsetto harmonized voices.

so far they only have one twelve inch out on ABB Records and one out on Ubiquity. oh yeah, and they just put out some weird remix 12" with Medeski Martin & Wood (that i'm not the hugest fan of). they've done production work for Heavy D, Pharoahe Monche, Bilal, Dr. DRE, Jill Scott, Jurassic 5, Erykah Badu, the Neptunes. there's also a 20 track something or other being passed around that i got (and if you're interested hit me up and i can get it to you, it's totally worth it)

here are some links:
http://www.ubiquityrecords.com/sa_ra.html
http://www.ubiquityrecords.com/ur162.html (audio links and tons of press)

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:58 (8 years ago) Permalink

You talk a good game, but will I like it?

It sounds like my perfect music.

― Senior Executive/CEO (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:05 (8 years ago) Permalink

I want it!

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:07 (8 years ago) Permalink

they're all over the plantlife record, which is really good as well.

― mark p (Mark P), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:12 (8 years ago) Permalink

adam, i feel like i gave it to you already when i gave you that burned cd a few months ago. maybe?

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

here's a link to the Plant Life site. you can listen to clips of every song on the album. it's very similar, but not as good to me. they're calling it post A Love Below. the point where hip hop and soul overlap. sorta Cee-lo-ish?
http://www.plant-life.net/main.html

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:19 (8 years ago) Permalink

also some other names that have been mentioned regarding this whole camp of music

Platinum Pied Pipers

The Vanishing System

Jneiro Jarel

unfortunately, these guys seem to be more backpacker than i'd like. the beats are cool, but the mcs are sorta ho hum.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:22 (8 years ago) Permalink

I love these guys. I'm a production assistant on KCRW's Chocolate City and the dj turned me on to them last year. Truly wonderful and unique stuff. "Glorious" is a gem.

― Flash (cowboytrance), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:50 (8 years ago) Permalink

you work with Garth?

my mom works at KCRW. she used to run the KCRW presents concerts but recently "retired" and now just voluteers on Morning Becomes Eclectic

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:52 (8 years ago) Permalink

I didn't realize ABB was still going. That's good to hear. I bought some records off Beni B once and he was a pleasant guy.

― mcd (mcd), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 23:56 (8 years ago) Permalink

haha. you are SOOOO wrong about beni. i did their old website and the Peven Everett album cover. i've told the story elsewhere on ILM, but he wasn't that nice of a man to me. </understatement>

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

"Glorious" is an incredible tune, like Moodymann getting busy with a funky Beck.

JaXon that Peven Everett cover you did was great :)

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:13 (8 years ago) Permalink

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:15 (8 years ago) Permalink

I mentioned it on the other thread, but Common mentioned on tv that Sa Ra Creative Partners are now on Kanye's Sony imprint G.O.O.D., which after googling around I found to be apparently true.

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

also from that thread, one of the guys is from Sa Ra is in the Common video

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 00:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

Maybe it was b/c I was handing him money?

― mcd (mcd), Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:33 (8 years ago) Permalink

the 2 singles combined make a great EP and probably one of the best records of the year.

I'm relatively new to Los Angeles, but the strongest local scene is this freaky soul/house/hip hip that's going around...Sa- Ra, plantlife and i want to add Cody Chestnutt to this "movement". It's the best soul music i've heard in years.

― Antonio DePietro, Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:48 (8 years ago) Permalink

that is a truly horrible name. will be on the lookout for them, though.

― ()ops (()()ps), Thursday, 10 March 2005 01:51 (8 years ago) Permalink

i fucked up that Vanishing System link. here it is again
http://www.soulseduction.com/common/item_detail.php?ItemCode=B178739

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:16 (8 years ago) Permalink

their name translates to "the off-spring of the most powerful energy in the universe"

they're definitely in that bo-ho Hippy Hopper camp. if you read the interviews the stuff they say comes off as a mix of philisophical and dudes who are just stoned out of their gourds.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 02:26 (8 years ago) Permalink

Jason (and others into this stuff), you would probably love the new Crown City Rockers (formerly Mission:) record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 03:02 (8 years ago) Permalink

gah, i feel like a chump, but i'm friends with those guys (three name drops in one thread). one of my closest friends Fabian does most of their design work and i almost did their website (fell through the cracks at the last minute). CCR's new one went from a CTI vibe to more of an Impulse sound. it's probably from the addition of saxaphone.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 03:57 (8 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, there are a couple of hot tracks upfront and then it sort of bottoms out into the laid back jam vibe. A little too laid back for me, but the rhythm section (Max esp.) is always killin', and they're great live of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 10 March 2005 04:04 (8 years ago) Permalink

sa~ra are the shit. That cover of "Just Like a Baby" is sweet.

― Star Hustler, Thursday, 10 March 2005 06:25 (8 years ago) Permalink

I a interested in what you say and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

― Austin (Austin), Thursday, 10 March 2005 07:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

love the music, songs are a bit ho hum, apart from a few here and there, but theyre better producers than songwriters. love the production.

their sly cover is ok but just like immaculate karaoke.

― ppp, Thursday, 10 March 2005 11:44 (8 years ago) Permalink

but theyre better producers than songwriters

this is the criticism i hear the most, but i just don't see it - or maybe i don't get it. i think the "problem" is that i like music that most people say has no songwriting (i love Cherrywine and the new Mos Def). i don't even know what poor songwriting means.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Thursday, 10 March 2005 17:59 (8 years ago) Permalink

i don't even know what poor songwriting means.

OTM.

Good songwriting is mostly a myth as far as I am concerned.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 10 March 2005 18:23 (8 years ago) Permalink

The album is sounding great. They should at least get as much press as Amp Fiddler or Peven Everett....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:11 (8 years ago) Permalink

come on, now. it will be much bigger than amp or peven. this is going to blow up. as gill can attest, take the glorious beat and drop snoop's "drop it like it's hot" acappela over the top. wikked.

much more jay dee than moodymann.

Is the full-length coming out on Ubiquity? Jay-Z line three.

― david day (winslow), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:18 (8 years ago) Permalink

holy crap, my friend just got a cdr of new jay dee beats. weird is the first word that comes to mind. bad is the second. lots of chopped vocal loops. sounds like he's copping a kanye vibe. we'll see.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:27 (8 years ago) Permalink

mullygrubbr, did you get my email? the one on this thread got sent back to me. if not, email me.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:29 (8 years ago) Permalink

3 months pass...

loving it

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

that's right!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

Release the album already!

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:24 (7 years ago) Permalink

the plantlife record is doing it for me too. its way less skewed but it makes me smile.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:28 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, plantlife took a minute to grow on me, but i really love it now. i thought just because it was a bit more "straight" that it wasn't worth listening to, but i was wrong.

i don't think Platinum Pied Pipers is very good. decent beats, but bad mc/vocalists.

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

gary, did you listen to the Jneiro Jarel? has anyone?

doesn't look like it

The Jneiro Jarel "Three Piece Puzzle" album is like whoa!

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

jaxon, i think you should try to track down this "cornerstone promotions" mix dj language did for nike if you can. it's probably one of my favorite records this year (oh the shame) and it's a nice mix of this stuff, broken beat, and related satellites.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

i listened to half of it yesterday...kept waiting for him to flow.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

xpost

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

related satellites = spacek, stone's throw rap, slum village-type stuff, saadiq-soul

it's very...hazy. middle of august on the blacktop, hazy.

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

hazy is amongst my favourites

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:51 (7 years ago) Permalink

jess, have you heard the full sa-ra yet? (it's downloadable if you want it)

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:55 (7 years ago) Permalink

i downloaded something called "unreleased cd-r" a while back and listened to it once or twice. is that what you mean?

("once or twice" isn't a commentary on its quality, btw, just my lack of time.)

― strng hlkngtn, Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, that should be it? it has like 20 tracks. i didn't know if you were basing your previous "meh" judgements on one or two songs or the "album"

― The Amazing Jaxon! (jaxon), Thursday, 23 June 2005 23:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

I don't think those are the final versions- definitely the version of "Double Dutch (Co Co Pops)" is a much less layered production than the 12" release. And it doesn't seem like it's a separate single version and album version either, just that one is more finished-sounding than the other.

― Telephonething, Friday, 24 June 2005 00:01 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

FOUR TET & SA-RA: Sun, Drums & Soil 12"

"The hottest UK star pushing against electronic-ecstatic jazz boundaries has just hooked up with next planet's saviors of soul. This is Four Tet vs the Sa Ra Creative Partners! Colliding in a 'Contusion' of Calypso-inflected tack-synth-melodies, squelchy rude basslines and utterly serious 'supercool' speak, this is the most explicit fun anyone's had with Four Tet's musical parts since Jay Dee got involved last year! We're also treated to Four Tet's own 'Sun Drums and Gamelan' remix of the track, which recalls 'Rated X' era Miles Davis."

Anyone heard this yet? Thoughts?

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:38 (7 years ago) Permalink

no. i like the jay dee four tet thing though.

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:41 (7 years ago) Permalink

I've got the Sa-Ra remix on a 3" promo cd dealie...it's quite nice. Anyone want a YSI?

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

pls

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:45 (7 years ago) Permalink

Uh, definitely, yeah.

(this YSI thing is getting outta hand, but link away please...)

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

http://s52.yousendit.com/d.php?id=17BDXQ5HHRB483FFX1D1DLFS40

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

Cheers,

It's so busy, there's quite a few different styles crammed in there. Including harddrive laptop skipping and broken beats, a distinction from straight up disco-looped house?

Don't know about the Fourtet connection in general. I'm interested to see where Sa-Ra position themselves in relation to R'n'B, hip-hop, electronica and downbeat though.

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 07:31 (7 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

worst "show" i've ever been to. paid for presale tickets. go there and have to be subjected to a subpar acid jazz band and then sa ra get on and they're just playing records. FOR THE WHOLE NIGHT! they weren't even playing records. he had a weird midi turntable hooked up to his laptop and was playing boring ass records that i've heard four billion times. i walked up to one of the dude's girlfriends and asked if they were really going to be playing records all night and she said it was listed on the site. fuck that. look at this. it's in the tiniest print hidden in some parentheses. what a fucking scam. first jay dee and now this. what a shitty day.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Saturday, 11 February 2006 10:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

3 weeks pass...

trackademicks > sa-ra

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 13:00 (7 years ago) Permalink

no.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

well, maybe, but i've never heard it.

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

lol @ faggy uk male model jammin hollertronix affiliates

― ,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 15:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

did we ever find a tracklist for the cd-r btw?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 15:42 (7 years ago) Permalink

I know it's corny to say it sounds great when you're high but it sounds great when you're high.

― PAUL HAGGIS, EMOTIONAL TERRORIST (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:23 (7 years ago) Permalink

it does!

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:29 (7 years ago) Permalink

considering my complete 180 on this thread topic i am really worried about the album

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

Is there actually an album? when?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

whatever it is that Jaxon gave me is awesome - easily one of my favorite new things of the last few years.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 March 2006 17:53 (7 years ago) Permalink

i think prince was listening to sa ra in the studio when making 3121

how retardely backwards is that?

― team jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 March 2006 17:57 (7 years ago) Permalink

ah he's always fairly up on new r&b folks (albeit not always with the best judgment - ex: Tevin Campbell)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 6 March 2006 18:50 (7 years ago) Permalink

well i found his myspace tryna hear the e40 single and i kinda liked that keyshia cole rmx on there fine enough! since i never liked sa-ra one bit (like hold on ummm so everyone smirking at neo-soul/broken beat in the 00s ws just waiting for a click of farnsworth bentleys to show up and validate their lives 5 years later?) (and i never liked keyshia cole either, she's a dick!) i wondered if ppl were up on this guy too

the e40 rmx on there is aight as well considering

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

I was never down on neo-soul!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

and lol @ e 4ever waiting to pounce

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah haha tbh adaml i first thought of u! mainly cos ur well into hyphy and trackademicks is out of that i think

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:17 (7 years ago) Permalink

shouldnt you be getting a $200 haircut somewhere

― ,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:20 (7 years ago) Permalink

This is what I am listening to as we speak

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:22 (7 years ago) Permalink

shouldnt you be getting a $200 haircut somewhere

Haha! Is this meant for me? I'd be lucky to afford a pack of gum the way my finances are right now.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:25 (7 years ago) Permalink

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:30 (7 years ago) Permalink

lol probably... i dunno what ur expecting me to say, "call me a male model again and i'll fucking kill you"? i mean ur info is somewhat dated but i guess that's no surprise

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:33 (7 years ago) Permalink

take it outside, ladies

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh, I see. Never mind.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

trackademicks dude is cool, but honestly kinda boring. there's just no surprise. there's really no comparing him and sa ra though.

i did like the e40 beat better than the original.

― team jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

ah ok well i can't say i heard a full sa-ra tape anyway but what i heard the few times they came on radio was fairly offensive tbh

there's that myspace, http://www.myspace.com/trackademicks i'm out

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:40 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hailing from Alameda, an island located off the coast of Oakland, CA, Trackademicks makes music driven by the same philosophy that made him; mix it up. Born to a Filipino father from the Bay Area and a Black mother from Richmond, VA, his cultural diversity inherently translates itself into the music. “Like California Cuisine, I take ingredients and influences from all over to add to our local tastes and create something appealing to everyone.”

So he's like the Alice Waters of 2006 R&B?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:44 (7 years ago) Permalink

Only if relys on fresh locally grown samplers and mixing desks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

sa ra is greatness, but it's what i call "fancy trainer" music. like all that benji-b-ified stuff, it requires serious glad rags. you've gotta fancy yourself up to listen to it...i love it, but i don't have the cash to buy the lifestyle.

― cybele (cybele), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh, and i second the love for ppp and up you an omar. new record's coming out soon...i'm very very excited.

― cybele (cybele), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

it's what i call "fancy trainer" music. like all that benji-b-ified stuff, it requires serious glad rags. you've gotta fancy yourself up to listen to it...

jaxon likes it!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:02 (7 years ago) Permalink

is jaxon fancy?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

i dress like a hobo fwiw

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:03 (7 years ago) Permalink

me too

it's sad when you realize you don't even have the budget to look indie ! (you know, if you actually wanted to).

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

Jaxon strikes me as someone who has one or two pairs of fancy trainers in his industrial living space.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

Of course I shouldn't presume.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:05 (7 years ago) Permalink

i bought a new pair of sneakers the other day and i felt like a rich man indeed

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

The sneakers I wear on any given day are worth more than everything else I'm wearing combined (even when I layer up). It has been this way since I was nine or so.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

This thread is going weird.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

Like today, for instance:

Costco shirt bought by wife (gray-like): $10
Calvin Klein jeans bought at Nordstrom Rack (blue): $15
Champion boxer briefs (white): $5
Socks (black): $5
Somewhat-fancy Italian "lifestyle" shoes (black and blue): $80 (I think)

x-post

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:10 (7 years ago) Permalink

If Sa-Ra go to Costco, it's p'bly to buy big vats of maple syrup in which to dunk their stripper friends.

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

And maybe some CDRs (CDR-ahs).

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:13 (7 years ago) Permalink

Adam you do not dress like a hobo. Hobos don't shop at H&M.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:16 (7 years ago) Permalink

THEY DON'T?

;)

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 20:19 (7 years ago) Permalink

hey--i'm in the market for some new fancy triners. my kangaroos are way to 2004.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

i've been known to wear some fancy trainers and expensive jeans while driving around in my suv that i park in my downtown loft

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

unfortunately that's all true

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:34 (7 years ago) Permalink

oh, and one more thing. SA RA IS NOT NEO-SOUL!!

― team jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:35 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah I don't hear that either.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 17:37 (7 years ago) Permalink

yeah, but they hang with those folks...and folks who luv the neo-soul tend to like'em...

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:04 (7 years ago) Permalink

all slsk folders containing sa-ra tend to confirm this

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 8 March 2006 18:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

So, they're finally releasing an album! April 24th... it's not Black Fuzz, they claim it's just something to get us warmed up for the REAL MAJOR LABEL DEBUT, but hey it's something. Featues Erykah adu, Gerogia Anne Muldrow, Bilal, and a bunch of others.

― The Brainwasher, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 01:48 (6 years ago) Permalink

it's about time, yes

― Michael F Gill, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:00 (6 years ago) Permalink

hmmm

― strongohulkington, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 16:30 (6 years ago) Permalink

i have a sa-ra comp or something i downloaded, but it doesn't have any of the track names. i hate when people don't tag their shit properly.

― artdamages, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:15 (6 years ago) Permalink

New disc is called The Hollywood Recordings and it's coming out on neither Sound in Color nor Sony/G.O.O.D. Music (who are allegedly putting out the debut album) but on Babygrande. Huh.

― Telephone thing, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 17:19 (6 years ago) Permalink

Strongo otm.

― The Reverend, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

Who is mad amped?

HOOS is mad amped.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:28 (6 years ago) Permalink

2 weeks pass...

my friend sent me a few mp3s from The Hollywood Recordings that Giant Step is giving out as a digital promo. 'Feel The Bass (feat. Talib Kweli)', 'Hey Love', 'So Special', 'And If (feat. Ty)'. i'm pretty unimpressed. Hey Love is great. the track with talib has talib on it - ugh. wasn't a fan of the other 2.

so i'm on IM w/him and i say: "so special" sucks. sounds like bad neo soul
and he responds with "that's my good friend Reesie"

uhhhh, ooops.

― jaxon, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:26 (6 years ago) Permalink

biz_markie_oh_snap!.jpeg

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 6 April 2007 21:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2022053495

― jaxon, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

pretty hot

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

kweli sounds :-/ but i like the beat a lot

― deej, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

actually kweli's last verse isn't bad

― deej, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

yeah that beat is dope

― deej, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:44 (6 years ago) Permalink

wait a minute - haven't sa-ra broken up?

― BATTAGS, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://sohh.com/articles/article.php/11219

Undaunted by their road blocks to success, the group has remained focused on the task at hand and denies speculation that they were close to the point of going their separate ways.
"It's not that there was more tension than usual, but with not having money and cats starting to ask questions, that tension gets to a point...", he explains. "It was a growth period. We weren't broken up and as far as I'm concerned we weren't going to break up. I've been through worst situations in the music business. What it does...it's like facing death. You let it die or you resurrect and keep it moving. It made us face the importance of Sa-Ra."

― jaxon, Saturday, 14 April 2007 23:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

so srsly, can someone put down their top 3 unimpeachable sa-ra classics or something? still curious if its me or them - just listened to this album, found it really pretty wack, but i'm seeing people saying the kweli track's hott when there was me reckoning it was the worst track on it by far. 'hey love' is nice.

did anyone ever hear this btw? def better than hollywood from what little i recall. also the cherrywine album that got mentioned upthread, that was fun too

― r|t|c, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:27 (6 years ago) Permalink

http://www.myspace.com/saracreativepartners

u can check the whole album on there now btw

― r|t|c, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:29 (6 years ago) Permalink

kweli sounds :-/

haha

― Jordan, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:33 (6 years ago) Permalink

thnx for the link dude, "Hey Love" does sound great

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 16:37 (6 years ago) Permalink

how the mighty have fallen. this album sucks. all of the new shit sounds like neo soul. guh. the only good stuff on that album is stuff i've already when i started this thread.

so srsly, can someone put down their top 3 unimpeachable sa-ra classics or something?

i don't have all their stuff w/me here, but off the top of my head, i'm gonna say Glorious, Hollywood, and the Agent Orange beat.

― jaxon, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:43 (6 years ago) Permalink

Also Divine. That sounds really good if you are hi.

I'm still looking forward to hearing the album.

― admrl, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:45 (6 years ago) Permalink

But not as much as listening to this stuff makes me want a new Moodymann.

― admrl, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:50 (6 years ago) Permalink

k, getting near the end of the record and the latter tracks are way better. way less commercial. Tracy's pretty good.

― jaxon, Friday, 20 April 2007 19:59 (6 years ago) Permalink

I am never high, but I always like listening to the album -- or at least the version with the songs I zapped out. I also like a fair amount of commercial R&B and have a high tolerance for HOT when hot/MEH when meh types.

― Andy K, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:08 (6 years ago) Permalink

can you translate the last part of yr sentence for me?

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

not trying to be a dick here! genuinely don't understand

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:18 (6 years ago) Permalink

he has a high tolerance for people where their great tracks are GREAT and their less than great tracks are LESS THAN GREAT

― strongohulkington, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:20 (6 years ago) Permalink

oh ok thnx

― deej, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:23 (6 years ago) Permalink

I am not hi that much, I have too many adult responsibilities. Just happened to hear that song once when very hi and it felt like I was walking backwards through an afro-futuristic airlock.

― admrl, Friday, 20 April 2007 21:55 (6 years ago) Permalink

1 year passes...

― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:21 (4 years ago) Permalink

― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 04:26 (4 years ago) Permalink

goddamn those are good

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 06:59 (4 years ago) Permalink

I wish I could find a decent version of Hummer and Glorious on youtube. Those just destroy.

― abusive comments (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 14:44 (4 years ago) Permalink

2 months pass...

I hope "Fantastic Vampere" ends up on Nu AmErykah part 2.

― Eric H., Monday, 22 December 2008 07:42 (4 years ago) Permalink

what is "Fantastic Vampere"?

― The Reverend, Monday, 22 December 2008 07:47 (4 years ago) Permalink

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2008/10/19/sa-ra-creative-partners-fantastic-vampere-featuring-erykah-badu-herbie-hancock/

― Eric H., Monday, 22 December 2008 07:52 (4 years ago) Permalink

I xposted it to here: itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

Amazing stuff, but 3 years old and way more Sa-Ra f/ Badu than the reverse, so I don't have any reason to believe it might show on New Amerykah 2

― The Reverend, Monday, 22 December 2008 08:23 (4 years ago) Permalink

Yeah, 3 years old but still haven't gotten a good clean copy of it. (The one on imeem sounds like a first draft, but it whooshes through the headphones like damn!)

Point taken on the "featuring Badu" aspect, tho.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:12 (4 years ago) Permalink

i saw ommas perform at a club earlier in the year - hilarious stuff. nice little (as in tiny, borderline white stripes numbers) band too.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:16 (4 years ago) Permalink

The version posted on rappersiknow certainly sounds finished.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:32 (4 years ago) Permalink

(It's downloadable btw)

― The Reverend, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

Finished, but highly compressed/muted somehow.

― Eric H., Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

I mean, good enough that I've been listening to it on repeat for the last two months, but still ...

― Eric H., Tuesday, 23 December 2008 00:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

What was the Monch track? It's off youtube now. I haven't found the two or three things I've half-listened to by these even interesting, but Hey Love is really nice, maybe i've been missing out.

― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:25 (4 years ago) Permalink

Am I behind in this convo is is Monch's Agent Orange in question here?

― n/o_O (PappaWheelie V), Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:27 (4 years ago) Permalink

Oh right I either didn't realize or i forgot that they produced that. Thought what you posted must have been a remix of a Desire track. Thanks.

― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:33 (4 years ago) Permalink

Seems counter-intuitive that when Monch returned with much more soul and horns than I expected, sa-ra of all people were partly responsible for an expectation of stuff that was a bit more raw.

― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 23 December 2008 16:45 (4 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

new album is out.

http://ubiquityrecords.com/shop/products/THE-SA%252dRA-CREATIVE-PARTNERS-%252d-NUCLEAR-EVOLUTION%2C-THE-AGE-OF-LOVE.html

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:09 (3 years ago) Permalink

yup. there's some great stuff, but overall it's a bit too much

― but hey, that would be going into sexual details ... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

and it isn't titled Pubic Cube (in Space): Book I of IV ;_;

― but hey, that would be going into sexual details ... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:24 (3 years ago) Permalink

Just got this from emusic... Halfway through it and I think it might be pretty great. The first few songs just kinda floated by, but ten tracks in I'm completely on board. "Love Czars" is awesome.

― Professor Respect, Thursday, 25 June 2009 01:08 (3 years ago) Permalink

I think "He Say She Say" is my early favorite

― blap-and-trade system (The Reverend), Friday, 26 June 2009 07:10 (3 years ago) Permalink

1 month passes...

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3144&Itemid=26

Shafiq Husayn , one third of California beat unit Sa-Ra Creative Partners, will release a solo album via K7/Plug Research on September 15.

― jaxon, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 22:27 (3 years ago) Permalink

the single is ridiculously awesome, and i was never hugely into sa-ra per se before

interviewing shafiq tonight...

― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:05 (3 years ago) Permalink

post the interview when its out... i like that song a lot too.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:18 (3 years ago) Permalink

that track is super rad

― jaxon, Thursday, 6 August 2009 17:50 (3 years ago) Permalink

Even though most of the new album doesn't really do it for me, even after repeated listens, I can't get enough of "He Say She Say" -- it is absolutely, deliriously magnificent.

― Goethe*s Elective Affinities, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:06 (3 years ago) Permalink

6 months pass...

listening to that shafiq album. these guys are so pastichey. almost everything they do sounds slightly deriviative. and i get the feeling its almost deliberate, their way of tipping their hat. but it just sounds slightly drab or like a damp squib. so mish mashy. plus their vocals are really shit and flat. this album should be on ninja tune.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:34 (3 years ago) Permalink

actually the main prob with this album is that surprisingly it seems overproduced. and then theres something about the production thats almost too slick and perfected, with all the grit and rough edges sanded off.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:35 (3 years ago) Permalink

lil girl is the standout. this could be a good ep.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink

4 months pass...

More thoughts on "The Nuclear Evolution"?

― European Bob (admrl), Thursday, 22 July 2010 16:21 (2 years ago) Permalink

melodee n'mynor is a dope track

― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 July 2010 23:37 (2 years ago) Permalink

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