Shabazz Palaces - Most important musical group/moment in Seattle since Nirvana at OK Hotel?

Save people, put out fires, go to school.

Oh I thought Tyler was saying "bum shit" but that makes more sense

ha spottie

This is a weird group of collaborators
http://www.thefader.com/2011/08/15/sbtrkt-f-drumma-boy-yukimi-nagano-and-shabazz-palaces-wildfire-remix-mp3/

Watched their performance on KEXP tonight. Really like the use of instruments on their set, at times it seems to me like they're doing the hip hop approach in a way noone has ever done it before and they're closer to greatness than I give them credit for. Next to the Cool Kids and the Cunninlynguists this one of the best hip hop records I've heard this year, still not sure if I'd classify it as hip hop tho.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djFrCb03-OI

Whoa now, not hip-hop you say?

http://soundcloud.com/chiefboima/chimurenga-renaissance-pungwe

New stuff, different name eh
http://exclaim.ca/News/members_of_shabazz_palaces_announce_new_album_as_chimurenga_renaissance

yikes, chimurenga renaissance

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Chimurenga music is a Zimbabwean popular music genre coined and popularized by Thomas Mapfumo. Chimurenga is a Shona language word for liberation.

Great name! Goes well with Shabazz Palaces. Can't wait for the record.

Mapfumo is the man, and you can actually hear some echoes of Chimurenga in that track, nice.

And Mapfumo lives in the Pacific Northwest, no? Eugene? I demand collaboration!

Tendai Maraire is Zimbabwean.

I guess this is apparently mostly Tendai's project (that Ish is contributing to)? That would make sense.

This kind of reminds me of the Shafiq Husayn album?

This thread title always blows my mind.

(also, thanks for pointing out that I need to listen to that SH album)

That was referring to Tendai's solo album, if not clear

Lese Majesty, July 29. It's amazing but oh there will be backlash.

why's that?

It makes Black Up sound conventional by comparison.

thee satisfaction presence?

Cat is on maybe like 3 tracks, don't think Stas was?

I wasn't able to make out (or remember) a ton of lyrics but one song has the line "the streets is undefeated"

cannot wait to hear this

It makes Black Up sound conventional by comparison.

Preordering now...

Got the thumbs up from Mudede but i'm not sure he's capable of being impartial wrt Shabazz.

My guess is this will include more guitars and conventional instrumentation considering their work with whatever shitty 3rd rate Seattle band they were working with last year.

Hope I'm wrong though, their collaboration was pretty dire.

You're wrong.

If anything it's more synth-driven.

Oh sweet. More electronics would be welcome. Shit, i'd actually love to hear what they'd do with an 'unplugged' set.

can't wait

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9

My guess is this will include more guitars and conventional instrumentation considering their work with whatever shitty 3rd rate Seattle band they were working with last year.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hope I'm wrong though, their collaboration was pretty dire.

― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:52 PM Bookmark

btw if you're talking about Erik Blood, he's mixed all of SP's records from the beginning and has been an integral part of their whole thing from the getgo

ooh, I just remembered this part where this really spaced out dubby song with minimal (or no?) percussion suddenly dissolved into this really fast, aggro, almost gabber-ish track. That was a big whoa for me

new jam is very much in character...i like the first beat in better than the second, which sounds like a bridge or an outro that goes on for way too long. but it'll probably make sense in this 'suite' structure.

01. Dawn In Luxor
02. Forerunner Foray
03. They Come In Gold
04. Solemn Swears
05. Harem Aria
06. Noetic Noiromantics
07. The Ballad Of Lt. Major Winnings
08. Soundview
09. Ishmael
10. …down 155th in the MCM Snorkel
11. Divine of Form
12. #CAKE
13. Colluding Oligarchs
14. Suspicion of a Shape
15. MindGlitch Keytar TM Theme
16. Motion Sickness
17. New Black Wave
18. Sonic MythMap for the Trip Back

It didn't feel 18 tracks long when I heard it.

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

lol Cat damn near stole my jacket tonight

This album is properly brilliant. One of the best things I've heard all year.

Black Up is seriously one of my favorite albums ever. :D

Black Up's great - but the new one is something else. I love when artists just go, 'Fuck it, I'm going to try for something remarkable, and who gives a shit if I fail?' He hasn't failed on this one.

Did ILX ever get excited about THEEsatisfaction? felt like I was in a wilderness raving about that when it came out.

what i heard i didn't like, but maybe i heard the wrong things

yahhhh, I've heard the new one I know. I still haven't heard it not on edibles tho :P

Theesatisfaction I love in concept and they are totally nice in person but their music doesn't do a ton for me. I always love their contributions to Shabazz shit tho.

Loved Black Up and wanted to love this one but it's a bit of a snooze apart from They Come in Gold, Ishmael and Motion Sickness. Feels like a big statement that doesn't quite come off.

i still reach for the eps over Black Up, even though Black Up sounds way better. 'yeah you' kills though.

Black Up not only sounds better but has way better songs that form a much more coherent vision. Why do you prefer the EPs?