Hey, Remember WordSound Records?

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I just dug out some cassette mixes of their stuff I made a few years ago. Pretty goddamn great. Better than I remembered, in fact. Now I'm gonna have to go re-buy some of their old CDs, I think.

― pdf (Phil Freeman), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:21 (7 years ago) Permalink

You'll find them cheap. I always like the label, but I don't think I spent more than $5 on any of their discs.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

I think I've dropped Sensational's name on some ILM threads ... dude is seriously one of my favourite hip-hop artists ever ... I used to say "I love me the lo-fi minimal hip-hop" but now lots of hip-hop sounds like that so the statement has been stripped of much of its meaning.

They fell into a same-y, doom-ethnodub rut with some of their early releases, but most of their stuff is damn fine.

They seemed to lose their focus after putting so much effort into "Crooked", even though the movie fucking ROCKED.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:36 (7 years ago) Permalink

Yeah Sensational was good - he'll be rediscovered and feted and compiled in years to come.

Hw was Torture from the Jungle Bros right? (JBs with the Remedy era)

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 22:59 (7 years ago) Permalink

the Philosophy Major CD is really good too, inna mid/late 90's Trip Hop/Acid Breaks rip-off type way.

― biz, Wednesday, 14 September 2005 23:12 (7 years ago) Permalink

Hw was Torture from the Jungle Bros right? (JBs with the Remedy era)

Holy shit, I didn't know he was a member of Jungle Bros! I've got to hear that album now!

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Jungle+Brothers

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:06 (7 years ago) Permalink

I assume he joined and left within the space of an album or two (hence his name being crossed out in the bio)?

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Thursday, 15 September 2005 00:07 (7 years ago) Permalink

There was a great track about "The Nigger that Jacked Me," and I remember them having something to do with Red Shift.
I dunno. A friend of my father's sent him those albums, then after I heard 'em a couple of times, my brother decided that he liked 'em more and just pretty much swiped 'em. I know he got a new copy of Wordsound a couple months ago though...

― js (honestengine), Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:47 (7 years ago) Permalink

download 'em off itunes and whatnot so as to help pay my rent.

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:56 (7 years ago) Permalink

what about hawd gankstuh rappuhs emsees wid ghatz?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:14 (7 years ago) Permalink

hahaha 2 hype 2 wype!

― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 15 September 2005 02:15 (7 years ago) Permalink

i love that Kill Dog-E album. totally connected with my love for New Kingdom sound, but i guess thats kinda obvious considering it was the same producer and featured Seb etc .. still really dark/heavy/scratchy hip hop.

― mark e (mark e), Thursday, 15 September 2005 05:58 (7 years ago) Permalink

some of the early stuff sounds a bit constipated (ok trainspotters where did i crib that from?). but i like the label. skiz did a reasonable book on hip hop in the 90's too?

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 07:11 (7 years ago) Permalink

psychoanalysis was fantastic. crooked = 1 of the best hip hop films evah

i feel sorry for skitz fernando, i heard he was working a day job a couple of years ago cos the label wasnt making enough money for him. he was a pretty good journo too.

― okokoko, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:08 (7 years ago) Permalink

I forgot the original press of Prince Paul's Psychoanalysis was on WordSound. That's a great album.

Was that series of Hoodz ten inches a WordSound off-shoot? Check out the Crazy Wisdom Masters one, it's Torture-in-the-line-up period Jungle Bros. tracks that their label refused to release. The song"Rah Rah Kid" sounds like "Bombs over Baghdad" remade on a Playstation by kids who've forgotten to take their Ritalin. Except that it predates "Bombs..." It's FANTASTIC.

― Raw Patrick at Work, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:32 (7 years ago) Permalink

ive got the subterranean hitz (was that the title?) comps, most of them are great, although wordsound were ocasionally prone to sludgy, downtempo, sullen, too moody for its own good stuff. any chance of a yousendit on that rah rah kid track?

― okoko, Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:49 (7 years ago) Permalink

Check out the Crazy Wisdom Masters one, it's Torture-in-the-line-up period Jungle Bros

dingdingding

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 10:52 (7 years ago) Permalink

7 years pass...

This label is still around - Spectre's just put out a new one that's vinyl/DL only (no CDs). And the first two volumes of Crooklyn Dub Consortium are now a 2CD set.

― 誤訳侮辱, Friday, 26 October 2012 19:30 (6 months ago) Permalink

ok i did not know crazy wisdom masters had finally turned up

― r|t|c, Friday, 26 October 2012 21:53 (6 months ago) Permalink

Perusing the discography, I remember HiM and We™ (on the comps, albums on Asphodel) somewhat fondly. I recall having a personal backlash against that sort of leaden, post-Laswell dub at the time.

I also note that the first appearance of Kevin Martin's The Bug project was the album Tapping The Conversation from 1997 on WordSound. Kinda wonder how it compares to Pressure, 7 years later, when I next delved into the digidub.

― ‽ Interrobang You're Dead ‽ (Sanpaku), Friday, 26 October 2012 21:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

what about hawd gankstuh rappuhs emsees wid ghatz?
― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, September 14, 2005 9:14 PM (7 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nuts album

― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 26 October 2012 21:59 (6 months ago) Permalink

That Bug album is nothing like Pressure.

― One bad call from barely losing to (Alex in SF), Friday, 26 October 2012 22:02 (6 months ago) Permalink

ok i did not know crazy wisdom masters had finally turned up

You mean the 10" or did someone finally put the whole thing out?

― I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:24 (6 months ago) Permalink

RA RA CAPER
I GOT SOME MORE WICKED RHYMES ON THE PAPER

Fucking crazy record, I want the whole thing.

nuts album

HELL YEAH. Body slam a sasquatch, make your mom watch.

― I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 27 October 2012 04:33 (6 months ago) Permalink

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