― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 14:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― JoB (JoB), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― superultramega (superultramarinated), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― s>c>, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 15:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
my friend just picked this up and told me it's outstanding. i've got the Dwight Trible album from a few years ago but it's more of a Leon Thomas cover album than anything else.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
The Jneiro Jarel "Three Piece Puzzle" album is like whoa!
i'd be happy to make a mix or burn cds for anyone who's interested.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:30 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.plant-life.net/main.html
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http:// brucewang.com/adoru/sa-ra.zip (take out the space before bruce)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link
none of the lyrics are concious, but i wouldn't say it's thug either. it is a bit hippy dippy sometimes.
the best i can compare it to is maybe post-a love below. it's taking later period funkadelic with all the weirdness and adding a modern hip hop touch. lots of weird synths. falsettos. Sa Ra has worked with the Neptunes
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
do you like Spacek and Vikter Duplaix. this stuff has a lot in common sonically with those acts.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:14 (eighteen years ago) link
definitely download the Sa Ra stuff, you'll be blown away (hopefully)
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:15 (eighteen years ago) link
i think i might be an rnb-ist! actually, i think i just might be thinking about this stuff in the wrong mindset. (i.e. singles instead of albums or mixes.) (or maybe i just don't smoke enough weed anymore.)
i love jay dee, which is why i keep giving this stuff a second chance.
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― jones (actual), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― strng hlkngtn, Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 11 May 2005 23:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 May 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
the 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover is pretty great.
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 May 2005 18:33 (eighteen years ago) link
And yeah, samba/r&b 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover is waaaay better than it could have been.
― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 16 May 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link
I love that Sa-Ra tour CDr that is going around, here's to hoping they don't fuck with the formula too much on their upcoming studio disc.
― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 16 May 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
how many sub-jay dee beats and programming can anyone take though? i hear that sound of his in so many underground producers, i just want them to move past that mellowness, that stacatto drum pattern, and that 'this could be slum village couldnt it?!' mood music.
"i mentioned in the Sa Ra thread how the major complaint of these guys is lack of songwriting, but i just don't even understand what that means. i mean, there's a beat, a chord progression (or not, but a lot of the jazz i love is only one chord, and NEU!). there are vocals, there's sometimes a hook. i mean, coming from someone who loves jungle and dance music, how can you expect it in this genre, but not in that. are you an r'n'b-ist?"
but this doesnt come from jungle and dance, it comes from soul, R&b and hip hop. id say these guys grew up on hip hop, then are trying their hand on R&b and soul type stuff, and it shows in the songwriting, cos its pretty static and mechanical. they havent quite understood that not all music is made like hip hop is. the problem i have with ppp and sa-ra is a lot of their music lacks any sort of momentum, it just glides along, or jogs along, and never really goes anywhere. its all about maintaining a vibe rather than developing a song as such. kinda like a hip hop beat and someone singing rap lyrics. the songs with georgia (i think) on the ppp album are the absolute pits cos of this. shes just rambling on barely strung together words that sound like they should be rapped instead of sing. and the funny thing is that despite their reactionary dissing of neo soul, theyre still close to that sound with their mellowness, their tranquility and their songlessness. (btw, sa ra are not peppermints and incense, lyrically speaking - people should listen closer).
all that said, sa-ra do have a few good songs to their credit, only about 3 or 4 though.
― ppp, Monday, 16 May 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Sa-Ra have a new single/mini-compilation of their production work for Pharaoh Monche, J Dilla and Steve Spacek out now, called "Second Time Around." It is- como se dice?- fucking awesome. And apparently Kanye's signed them- if I hear "Glorious" or "Double Dutch" on mainstream pop radio I will be orgasmically happy.
― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― okok, Tuesday, 4 October 2005 11:16 (eighteen years ago) link
waajeed live on deviation (bbc 1xtra)
1. diverse - aint right2. platinum pied pipers - try me3. jonny miller - everyday4. teddy seven - steady5. alison crockett - U R (yam who? remix)6. leroy hutson - love this feeling (moodymann reedit)7. metal fingers - orange blossom instrumental8. platinum pied pipers ft elleuud - one to love you9. waajeed - vangelis10. slum village - la la11. jay dee - guitar 12. jay dee - it's dope13. jay dee - kaamal14. sa ra creative partners - glorious 15. fourtet - serious as your life (jay dee remix ft guilty simpson)16. wajeed - untitled beat17. platinum pied pipers - better days18. waajeed - tron19. theo parrish - musical metaphors20. amp fiddler - superficial (moodymann remix)21. urban tribe - covert action22. galaxy 2 galaxy - journey of the dragons23. wajeed - tron24. rhythim is rhythim - it is what it is25. dego & kaidi tatham - ain't nothing you can't feel26. dabrye - you know the formula right27. brandy - turn it up
killer set, esp if you're feeling the whole jay-dee-meets-detroit-techno sort of vibe.
hold tight for the YSI.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― cancer prone fat guy (dubplatestyle), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:53 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway before we get to the YSI:
it's all abt CONTEXT CONTEXT CONTEXT.
it's hard to love this shit when it's SLSKed in the form of hastily-assembled "bootleg"/"unreleased" mp3 folders on random people's. i especially had this problem w/ sa-ra. i don't want to hear a 20 track "compilation" that's 1/3rd intros/skits and 1/3rd studio outtakes and random beat compositions.
on the other hand, hearing it in mixed form w/ benji b and waajeed's heartwarming collegial chatter over the top ... OMGs all around. why have i been sleeping on PPP?!?!
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:00 (eighteen years ago) link
plantlife is gooood.
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:01 (eighteen years ago) link
(any idea how long 164 mb should take on 802.11g broadband?)
well, expect it by ... tomorrow, at the latest.
― vahid (vahid), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:52 (eighteen years ago) link
http://s8.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EZMPVKF3OU18170O5LZ8JTU2B
― vahid (vahid), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― adamrl (nordicskilla), Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Friday, 8 September 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
For a second year in a row, Triple Five Soul will be taking its ongoing interaction with the most cutting-edge of underground music culture on the road. The T5 SOUL SESSIONS TOUR will be expanding internationally in 2006 to include both Montreal and Tokyo amongst its visited cities (NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago and Boston).
Set to kick off in conjunction with the Fall 2006 collection at retail, the major legs of the tour will visit Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Boston, Montreal and San Francisco between September 21st and 28th. The 2006 lineup will include Aloe Blacc (Stones Throw), Black Spade (Reca.Sto), Blu Jemz (Turntable Lab/Money Studies), DJ Spinna (Wonder Wax/Beyond Real), Ge-ology (Female Fun/Time Warp NYC), Low B (Hollertronix), Platinum Army (Waajeed and Tiombe Lockhart), Roger Yamaha (Moonwalk Records), Theo Parrish (Sound Signature), Twilite Tone (Great Weekend), Valida (Proper) and T5 Soul Sessions 5 resident Benji B (Deviation/Radio 1XTRA UK).
Performances will include in store sessions at the T5S flaship store in Soho and top T5S retailers Villain’s Vault, Untitled, Fred Segal, Karmaloop, and Style X-change, as well as evening events at Mighty (San Francisco), King King (Los Angeles), Sonotechque (Chicago), Canal Room (NYC), Underbar (Boston) and The Cabaret (Montreal). Media support for the tour will be handled by the fellow music/fashion lovers at The Fader.
For specific tour date/city/rsvp info, please visit www.triple5soul.com/soulsessions2006
date: city: venue: rsvp: in store: 9.21 San Francisco Mighty sfsoul@triple5soul.com Villain's Vault, 5-7pm 9.22 Los Angeles King King lasoul@triple5soul.com Fred Segal (Santa Mon./ Melrose), 4-6pm 9.26 NYC Canal Room nycsoul@triple5soul.com Triple Five Soul (SOHO), 6-8pm 9.27 Boston Underbar bostonsoul@triple5soul.com Karmaloop, 5-7pm 9.28 Montreal Cabaret montrealsoul@triple5soul.com Style X-Change, 6-8pm 9.30 Chicago Sonotheque chicagosoul@triple5soul.com Untitled (Lincoln Park), 2-4pm TBA Tokyo TBA TBA TBA
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 11 September 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.stonesthrow.com/georgia/
― jaxon (jaxon), Monday, 11 September 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 14:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link
Is the Aloe Blacc record good?
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link
ITEM!
― and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― shabba ranks (dubplatestyle), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― HUNTA-V (vahid), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Telephonething (Telephonething), Monday, 2 October 2006 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― gaseous (gaseous), Monday, 2 October 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 14:42 (seventeen years ago) link
this is pretty much sa-ra/andre3000/dudley perkins/many others in a nutshell, just replace latin with soul/funk/etc.
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyone heard the new NORE?OK this belongs in the rolling rap thread
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 3 October 2006 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
also make sure it's really finished downloading
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link
anyone else getting this?
― robin (robin), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 4 October 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
^ WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE.
― PRKLTR (flezaffe), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link
free download http://fatbeats.com/blackmilkpressuremixcd/
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― fies, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 5 April 2007 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 5 April 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/stacyepps
anyone else doing this kind of thing? im hopelessly out of touch w/ everything r&b.
― ǝɟɟɐzǝɟ (☪), Wednesday, 26 November 2008 13:46 (fifteen years ago) link
What's the Science? Is the question we direct to all those that dwell on the Planet Earth! From the Mother Continent of Africa, to the hills of Europe, on over to the wilderness of North America, all the way back to the Coast of Asia, living under the umbrella of Hip-Hop Culture. We ask you all, What's the Science? We are living in a time where Hip-Hop Culture is one of the most powerful forces that exists around us that helps unite people of all races, colors, creeds, religions and schools of thought under one flag. It's time to give proper thanks and praise and reverence to the ERA that raised us and guided this same movement, that still exists today, on the next level. We stand here before you as Students of the same conscious movement that birthed the likes of AFRIKA BAMBATAA, KRS ONE, RAKIM, PUBLIC ENEMY, BRAND NUBIAN, X-CLAN, POOR RIGHTEOUS TEACHERS, KMD, THE NATIVE TONGUE and countless others that brought forth an entire essence that took the world by storm and made it cool to be intelligent. What's the Science? How long will it take us to stand up strong again to make sure that the youth have some substance to feed off in order to grow into powerful, resourceful and responsible adults able to make positive changes to the world in which we live. What's The Science?
1. Inspiration2. Love, Hugs And Hip-Hop Soul feat. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Nick Rosen 3. The Right Song feat. Tiffany Paige, Fabian Ammon, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson 4. The Natural Scriptures 5. Higher feat. Tiffany Paige, Daedelus 6. Circulate feat. Invizible Handz, Nobody, Flying Lotus7. What's The Science?8. Honor, Courage and Karma feat. Prince Po, Dexter Story, Nate Morgan9. Constant10. The Replenish11. Freedom feat. Tiffany Paige12. The Dream feat. Dwight Trible, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/store/covers_large/WTS01LP.jpg
― moonship journey to baja, Wednesday, 31 December 2008 00:25 (fifteen years ago) link
So the new PPP record Abundance is around. Hip hop elements are pretty much indiscernible. The music sounds like a live band, sometimes in a straight motown/stax soul kind of way, as in the excellent "On A Cloud", sometimes with cosmic funk keys, as in "Luv Affair". A handclap-doublehandclap rhythm pops up often. Track six, "Sanctuary", is the first song that could be called a downbeat r n' b ballad in the sa-ra mold, with beats, funk fuzz and off-kilter effects that continue into "Ain't No Ifs or Maybes". "The Ghost Of Aveiro" starts like a poetic torch song with sustained notes over Latin rhythms, then after a samba breakdown with dizzy high horns becomes something highly danceable with excited vocals. The double-handclaps re-appear for "Countless Excuses", a sweet poppy soul song of regret backed with spacey synths. Both of these are A+. Fuzz and scuzz returns on "Dirty Secrets", this time with a stompy schaffel backbeat. The two-minute "Goodbye" goes four to the floor with a Kraftwerk keyboard motif, introduces some snares and is in danger of becoming full-on dance music before stopping.
Singing is by Coultrain, Karma Stewart, Jamila Raegan and Neco Redd. It's fifteen tracks, sixteen if you count the hidden one. Clocks in under an hour and still felt a bit long to me on first listen. Definitely interesting though.
― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 05:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.myspace.com/aqeel
love a mystery!
― ☪, Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I could not get into the new record at all.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 14:09 (fifteen years ago) link
aw, i loved abundance. especially the karma stewart numbers, "on a cloud" is fierce as fuck
― Leif ericsonned (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:16 (fifteen years ago) link
new ppp is way better than old ppp. but even then, i like it, but it can seem like its trying to do too much at once.
― Yellow Carded (titchyschneiderMk2), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Abundance is all right, but Triple P is a lot better imo. All the great personalities that were present on the first record got shafted in favor of anono-soulers.
― The-Reverend (rev), Wednesday, 25 March 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link