itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

Yeah, I like how they use retro-soul more as a starting point than as an end unto itself.

Oh man, this thread is so great and appreciated. It is totally hooking me up with stuff I was looking for when I started this thread: Contemporary mellow jazzy soul...

I sort of want to listen exclusively to this kind of stuff from now until perpetuity.

so i got back in contact w/ Kaleem that i mentioned just upthread and he mentioned some new names

http://www.myspace.com/opswamp81 (really feeling this)

http://www.myspace.com/afta1

http://www.myspace.com/samiyambeats

the last 2 are primarily instrumental. samiyam even does a weird (not necessarily good) remix of soldier boy's "crank that"

Moodymann Live:

I discovered a podcast on slsk of garth trinidad and muhsinah

in the process of getting now

musinah seems a lot like GAM to me. not sure if i like her. screechy singing all over the place and not very songful.

anyone like frank mccomb? hes very neo soul but not in the posery/too cool way, very donny hathaway influenced, to the point where its almost like glenn lewis and stevie wonder. still like him though, but i wish he had some better lyrics on some of his songs. theyre as inane as a lot of modern R&B, just less noticeably so cos the music and singing are so 'deep'.

so very late on this particular bandwagon but my brothe just sent me Tide's Arising by Mark de Clive-Lowe and "Slide" is like the perfect mix of Prince and house music, woot

I'm sure it's mentioned up there somewhere, but the PPP album is up on emusic now

i listened to Flying Lotus' "Los Angeles" and honestly, it was kinda really boring. no songs, no basslines, no samples, just beats and weird noises. kinda lost me. his bbc essential mix is still pretty rad though.

the j*davey album is great

The Flying Lotus album didn't make a huge impression on me, either. I haven't gone back to it. Maybe I should, maybe I shouldn't.

musinah seems a lot like GAM to me. not sure if i like her. screechy singing all over the place and not very songful.

Your capacity for constant rongness astounds me.

I discovered a podcast on slsk of garth trinidad and muhsinah

Woops, meant Garth podcast of Georgia Anne. On 1st listen, it's decent, with some exclusives. Will listen again soon.

musinah seems a lot like GAM to me. not sure if i like her. screechy singing all over the place and not very songful.

haha on the GAM comparison, considering my mixup above. Although I don't get the "screechy" accusation on Muhsinah. Screechy is how I define much of the R&B out there, as Tombe Lockhart says in the interview posted above.

so very late on this particular bandwagon but my brothe just sent me Tide's Arising by Mark de Clive-Lowe and "Slide" is like the perfect mix of Prince and house music, woot

Gotta admit...it was that album that opened the door for me to revisit the Broken Beat meets Neo-Soul thing, which surely led me to this, but I don't think they're exactly the same. I got into Mark and Ticklah thanks to DJ Spinna colabs.

i listened to Flying Lotus' "Los Angeles" and honestly, it was kinda really boring. no songs, no basslines, no samples, just beats and weird noises

I consider Flying Lotus, 00Genesis, Jackhigh, et al to be a sub-genre. Not R&B, although, occasionally in an R&B mode.

xp

I mean, I'm not saying you are rong about Muhsinah and GAM being similar, just the rest. ; )

tbh i only heard her once a few months back and i prob should reinvestigate just to make sure i was right or not but i dont know if i want to repeat that experience.

I love both their voices, especially Muhsinah's.

weird. the tracks on her myspace arent like the ones that were there last year at all. these are nicer. not very GAM at all.

for the record, day.break has been my favorite album on this whole thread (probably of the whole decade). not just saying it to pile up. i'm really blown away by it. i just know contrarian ass ilm would'nt agree if stated (and probably won't anyway), so i was hoping everyone would find it on their own and at least have no expectations

xxp

xpost - that flying lotus album has pretty good bass if you listen to it on a good system. i find if i hear it just on my PC speakers a lot of the low end disappears.

xp For real, dawg? I like day.break, but it runs together after a while.

what is day.break

Muhsinah

For real, dawg.

Tonight's the night I play catch up on this thread again, so expect some live blogging soon
(especially on the Not For Sale: Red Bull Music Academy Toronto 2007 mix)

― serious sockpuppet here (PappaWheelie V), Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:28 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

Finally, some of this has come in.

So far, not half as good as the Fader Suite903. Musinah gives way to IDM, Dubstep or whatever, inst Acid Jazz, Electro, but...

This Mara TK & Jake One track is great.

Om'mas Keith Prince-a-like track with Talk Box is great

Samiyam and Hudson Mohawke's "Eff This" is a *fantastic* beat that begs for a great vocal

Waiting for the rest.

Oh, btw: you may be interested in the Brownwood Bubblers series. I downloaded the third last night, but haven't listened yet. Has Stacy Epps and Rozzi Daime on it among others, the clips I listened to mostly sounded in this vein.

Yeah, that's on my list to get too. Have a few cuts from it already.

Finally figured out what "Mr. Johnnie Walker" sounds like to me:

LA area fans, Janelle Monae & Garth Trinidad @ Giant Step Sat Feb 7

http://www.giantstep.net/events/1074

oh shit, just realized rozzie daime is my friend's friend reese that sang on the sa-ra album

― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:57 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark

jaxon, met your friend Ben last night. We related on 1,000 topics, including gaining some insight on Rozzie Dame.

Anyway...

Anyone know anything about MarToRio? His song Share Of from the Red Bull Toronto mix is in the heart of this. I've found next to nothing so far.

haha. nice! yeah, he's my oldest bestest friend. how'd you put 2 & 2 together? did you mention that u knew me from the internet?

ilx came up. he said his friend jason forwarded him a thread about new, weird r&b. dan was in the convo, pointed out jason = jaxon. ben started talking about his friend reese.

he said several terrible things about you. kinda endlessly.

ha. of course. unrequited love, etc

She's not quite "out there", but I figured I'd mention Algebra Blessett in here... her album Purpose was one of my favorites from last year:

Gorgeous voice.

this dude just added me on myspace. Always is pretty cool. looks like he had a remix on that garth trinidad mix i mentioned upthread

http://www.myspace.com/giftedblessed

oh, nice. i asked GB who was singing on that Always track and he said it's muhsinah

Snippets of Asplund's Dorian Concept-produced 12":

http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore.com/mp3/MR281498_1.mp3
http://www.hardtofindrecordsrecordstore.com/mp3/MR281498_3.mp3

― Andy K, Sunday, December 21, 2008 10:02 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark

"Silverlake" video (plus other stuff):

http://ibootleggedyourmum.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/kissey-asplund-silverlake/

this is where we talk about PPP right? i'm enjoying this album more and more every time i spin it. i'm partial to the karma stewart songs, my favorite is 'on a cloud'; her voice is so soulful and retro (in a good way). does she have anything out there on her own that is worth checking out?

also looks like lastfm is autocorrecting them now, i remember rev complaining about that recently

I need to catch up with this thread.

but for real though, me too

I like the Algebra tracks! I'd seen something of hers posted over at lolbounce, but it didn't catch me.

For those curious about Muhsinah's day.break, and a few other things in this thread, this was put together for someone else, but might as well place it here too.

Aight, so on one listen I like this new Heavy record a lot. It's a lot less hamfisted then their debut. More neo-soulish, too. Lots of rhodes and sax all over the place. And a heap of Stevie-isms. They even call the last track "Wonderlove" and go for a glorious, all out, unabashed Minnie-circa-Perfect Angel tribute. Somewhere in the middle there's a broken-beat rendition of the Sesame Street theme. The two "bumpers" are a good vamp that a didn't need to hear for more than a minute, but otherwise I can't really find fault. I didn't expect much of this, but color me impressed.

Oh, wow. I think the Jazzanova remix of "Wonderlove" might be even better than the original.

Sa-Ra album on Ubiquity, release date of 6/9.

Obviously the hold up was in waiting for a 6/9 Tuesday.

http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/essays/images/BillTed3.jpg

awesome

what's it called? black fuzz?

Pubic Cube (In Space): Book 1 of 4

Clip Never Stopping When It's Time to Kick or Spray, Vol. 1: Meccanomics