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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 (nineteen years ago) link

three months pass...

loving it

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

that's right!

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

Release the album already!

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

hazy is amongst my favourites

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Thursday, 23 June 2005 22:51 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

one 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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:41 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

pls

― mullygrubbr (bulbs), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Uh, definitely, yeah.

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

― Mika, Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:47 (eighteen years ago) link

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

― Telephonething (Telephonething), Tuesday, 26 July 2005 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

six 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 (eighteen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

trackademicks > sa-ra

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago) link

no.

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

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

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

lol @ faggy uk male model jammin hollertronix affiliates

― ,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 15:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

it does!

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

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

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

Is there actually an album? when?

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 16:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

I was never down on neo-soul!

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:14 (eighteen years ago) link

and lol @ e 4ever waiting to pounce

― rtcotm (mwah), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

shouldnt you be getting a $200 haircut somewhere

― ,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:20 (eighteen years ago) link

This is what I am listening to as we speak

http://www.wide-creative.com/projects/slgrdcd_a.jpg

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:22 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

http://www.walkeryoungreaders.com/2003/wbcontent/books/covers/caught_in_crossfire-l.gif

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Monday, 6 March 2006 19:30 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

take it outside, ladies

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

oh, I see. Never mind.

― Adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 6 March 2006 19:36 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_7gDhLqpE

interviewing shafiq tonight...

― lex pretend, Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:05 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:18 (fourteen years ago) link

that track is super rad

― jaxon, Thursday, 6 August 2009 17:50 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

six 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 (fourteen years ago) link

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 (fourteen years ago) link

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

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 25 February 2010 16:36 (fourteen years ago) link

four months pass...

More thoughts on "The Nuclear Evolution"?

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

melodee n'mynor is a dope track

― johnny crunch, Friday, 23 July 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link

ten years pass...

Who is mad amped?

HOOS is mad amped.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, March 21, 2007 2:28 PM (thirteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:44 (three years ago) link

revisiting, they had some amazing shit

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 30 January 2021 05:44 (three years ago) link

“Second time around” ep is sick

― brimstead, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:20 (three years ago) link

also “rosebuds”, “hanging by a string”

― brimstead, Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:21 (three years ago) link

“Love czars” is pretty insane

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 30 January 2021 18:36 (three years ago) link

wasn’t this g unit thing them too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pumqhYE7q5M

― brimstead, Saturday, 30 January 2021 20:55 (three years ago) link

Is this where we talk about how awesome the solo Om’mas Keith album City Pulse is cause it’s one of my favourites.

― Will (kruezer2), Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:48 (three years ago) link

extremely OTM

― rob, Sunday, 31 January 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link

Weird how their career went. I thought they were going to be more popular as a group, not just producers for other artists, and often with a sound more subdued than those early songs like rosebud, white, Hollywood, etc

― candyman, Sunday, 31 January 2021 22:22 (three years ago) link

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