The Sa Ra Creative Partners Thread, finally...

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The album is sounding great. They should at least get as much press as Amp Fiddler or Peven Everett....

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:11 (twenty-one years ago)

come on, now. it will be much bigger than amp or peven. this is going to blow up. as gill can attest, take the glorious beat and drop snoop's "drop it like it's hot" acappela over the top. wikked.

much more jay dee than moodymann.

Is the full-length coming out on Ubiquity? Jay-Z line three.

― david day (winslow), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

holy crap, my friend just got a cdr of new jay dee beats. weird is the first word that comes to mind. bad is the second. lots of chopped vocal loops. sounds like he's copping a kanye vibe. we'll see.

― The JaXoN 5 (JasonD), Friday, 11 March 2005 23:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

loving it

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

that's right!

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

Release the album already!

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

xpost

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

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 (twenty years ago)

hazy is amongst my favourites

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

pls

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

Uh, definitely, yeah.

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

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

trackademicks > sa-ra

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

no.

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

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

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

lol @ faggy uk male model jammin hollertronix affiliates

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

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

it does!

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

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

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

Is there actually an album? when?

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

I was never down on neo-soul!

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

and lol @ e 4ever waiting to pounce

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

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 (twenty years ago)

shouldnt you be getting a $200 haircut somewhere

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

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 (twenty years ago)

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 (twenty years ago)

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

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

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 (twenty years ago)

take it outside, ladies

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

oh, I see. Never mind.

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

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and it isn't titled Pubic Cube (in Space): Book I of IV ;_;

― but hey, that would be going into sexual details ... (The Reverend), Wednesday, 24 June 2009 23:24 (sixteen years ago)

Just got this from emusic... Halfway through it and I think it might be pretty great. The first few songs just kinda floated by, but ten tracks in I'm completely on board. "Love Czars" is awesome.

― Professor Respect, Thursday, 25 June 2009 01:08 (sixteen years ago)

I think "He Say She Say" is my early favorite

― blap-and-trade system (The Reverend), Friday, 26 June 2009 07:10 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

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 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

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

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

that track is super rad

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

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 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

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 (sixteen years ago)

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

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

four months pass...

More thoughts on "The Nuclear Evolution"?

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

melodee n'mynor is a dope track

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

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 (five years ago)

revisiting, they had some amazing shit

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

“Second time around” ep is sick

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

also “rosebuds”, “hanging by a string”

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

“Love czars” is pretty insane

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

wasn’t this g unit thing them too?

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

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

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 (five years ago)

extremely OTM

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

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 (five years ago)

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