― vahid (vahid), Sunday, 12 February 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Sunday, 12 February 2006 06:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link
one of the best producers in the game - these guys dont know what there on about. Cant wait for your other stuff to be released that you were workin on before u passed!!
if u guys dont respect dilla as a producer im sorry u dnt know what ure talkin bout!
― Miniface, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― ,,, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
http://rapidshare.de/files/13365085/Beat_CD_2004.zip.htmlhttp://rapidshare.de/files/13365373/Beat_CD_2005.zip.html
― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― team jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orange (Orange), Thursday, 16 February 2006 23:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Jax, if you'd like to pass along those Beat CD's, I'd be mighty appreciative.
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― The Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― jäxøñ (jaxon), Monday, 15 May 2006 21:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Antonio Depietro, Monday, 15 May 2006 22:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Bee (Cee Bee), Monday, 15 May 2006 22:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― pinder (pinder), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 02:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
He should've done a lot more.
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
my friend just sent me this email: yo, chris has an ipod playlist of originals from Donuts. It's crazy because that album is fraught with hidden messages. They're all messages from his death bed. when you go back and listen to the original songs they're all ominous like "Fruitman" by Kool & the Gang about the importance of good food (he got sick by not eating right), and "When I die" by Motherlode. Real real deep. It's really apparent when you hear the originals.
also the new qtip album kinda sux. i really liked Kamaal and this is more of the same live band funk/soul/rock type shit, but it's way jammier and just doesn't do it for me. my favorite track on the album is a jay dee produced number.
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Am I the only one that likes the similiar Madlib album that came out a few months ago better than Donuts?
― Post-Rodney (But no one called it that at the time) (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:30 (eighteen years ago) link
The Shining is sitting real well with me right now.
No doubt. How is the rest of the Steve Spacek album after "Dollar," and did Dilla do any more beats on it? I've been going to this club lately where they use that song as an end of the night wind-down thing, I love it more each time.
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:32 (eighteen years ago) link
i love the first jaydee produced one. the 'jazz' one you're talking about is called Kamaal the Abstract. i think it's pretty great, and this new one is pretty similar but just not as good to me.
jay dee only produced 'dollars' on the spacek album. spacek produced most of it himself. i think it's pretty good. here's a thread i started about it. The new Steve Spacek album is really good...
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 7 September 2006 02:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― Post-Rodney (But no one called it that at the time) (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 7 September 2006 03:36 (eighteen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 7 September 2006 03:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Andy_K (Andy_K), Thursday, 7 September 2006 07:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 7 September 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
deej was right: this isn't so much like the avalanches record.
― the art ensemble of chicago house (vahid), Friday, 8 September 2006 06:59 (eighteen years ago) link
i've been listening to this album a lot the past couple days, and i just can't believe how great it is. things i like about it:
1. the anti-cohesive cohesiveness, i came to really enjoy the abrupt track changes, there is definitely a flow to this album that isn't apparent at first 2. the different textures of the static in the background of the samples is a very pleasing sound to me, especially on the more relaxed tracks. that combined with off-kilter unusual melodies and sample choices, such an awesome sound. 3. the sentimental part of me hears it as a kind of nostalgic montage that was meaningful to dilla, like his life flashing before his eyes 4. the brevity of each track pulls me into listening to the whole album instead of skipping around. one track just makes me want to hear the next one because i can already hear the transition coming up, but at the same time i don't get bored of the transitions because they're still so suprising. it also just gives the album a really unique "shape" (i guess that ties into #1) 5. tracks: 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14 (a good example of the static-y textures thing that i like), 15, 16... i guess listing tracks is kinda pointless, i pretty much love all of em
i've been listening to the shining and welcome 2 detroit, but neither have grabbed me as much as this one. any recommendations?
― later arpeggiator, Saturday, 9 February 2008 20:22 (sixteen years ago) link
i cant believe this thread. the avalanches? dilla sounding like madlib? what were you guys smoking? Donuts is the man's masterpiece, i like much of his shit but 2 years later that album still gets mad plays from everyone i know. that shit has enchanted people i know who arent even really hiphop fans.
only the post above mine has really hit the nail on the head, and it took 2 years. when i first listened to Donuts, it was the day it came out. i skipped through the tracks on vinyl, and i wasn't feeling it. i listened to it the next day on CD and realized that this was the obviously superior method for listening to it and i bought it immediately. it's now one of my top 10 albums of all time in any genre. the ebb and flow of emotions over the record is outstanding. it is so sad, beautiful, dark, happy, sexy, dirty, and deep, all at the same time.
for me, the guy was the greatest man to rock a sampler. but i've loved him forever, been rocking Welcome 2 Detroit since that shit came out, a total classic as well. between those two records and Fantastic Vol 1 alone, the guy is the greatest hiphop producer of all time. when you throw in other singles of his like "fuck the police" and shit he did for other cats, he just cant be topped.
also, i saw someone upthread ask if he had been listening to theo parrish records before making donuts. id assume it was quite the opposite, though im sure dilla heard theo as well. if you look on youtube, there is a video of Waajeed (who was dilla's boy) going record shopping in Melodies and Memories and he talks about the classic detroit records by Moodymann and Carl Craig. those cats know about detroit shit for real.
― pipecock, Sunday, 10 February 2008 03:52 (sixteen years ago) link
this is a good record
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 10 February 2008 04:09 (sixteen years ago) link
the ever-emerging herbish newjackness of rap critics
-- ,,, Thursday, February 9, 2006 6:55 PM
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 10 February 2008 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"someone"
― moonship journey to baja, Sunday, 10 February 2008 04:18 (sixteen years ago) link
those cats know about detroit shit for real.
there was a really old benji b radio broadcast w/the slum village cats talking about music and they said in detroit there wasn't really a differentiation between listening to techno and listening to hip hop. it was all just good music to them.
― jaxon, Sunday, 10 February 2008 06:22 (sixteen years ago) link
that shit has enchanted people i know who arent even really hiphop fans.
ahh yes the sign of a great hip hop producer
― deej, Sunday, 10 February 2008 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i prefer reading a forum where this album's perfection is in question because the obligation im supposed to feel to call this the 'a love supreme' of hip-hop when i read soulstrut or wherever else is real obnoxious to me, even tho i do like this record
― deej, Sunday, 10 February 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
here i was thinking that alex posting old fennessey columns on the graduation thread was a landmark event :(
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:04 (sixteen years ago) link
how did he die? that's sad...
-- M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 12 February 2006 15:41 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
He had his heart broken by this thread, and just faded away.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 12 February 2006 16:44 (1 year ago) Bookmark Link
^^^Classic Passantino
― Dom Passantino, Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
love love love this album
― sleep, Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:52 (sixteen years ago) link
deej - if dilla praise annoys you NEVER go to okayplayer - they literally worship him there
― The Brainwasher, Sunday, 10 February 2008 19:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"ahh yes the sign of a great hip hop producer"
it is the sign of making great music. when someone can do something that is within a genre but its appeal is far
"i prefer reading a forum where this album's perfection is in question because the obligation im supposed to feel to call this the 'a love supreme' of hip-hop when i read soulstrut or wherever else is real obnoxious to me, even tho i do like this record
-- deej"
i mean, if you want to question the greatness of an awesome record, that's up to you. you can think whatever you want about this album, but my guess is that this record is only going to be more revered as time goes on, and for good reason.
― pipecock, Sunday, 10 February 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
"there was a really old benji b radio broadcast w/the slum village cats talking about music and they said in detroit there wasn't really a differentiation between listening to techno and listening to hip hop. it was all just good music to them.
-- jaxon"
the detroit scene is insane. it really is something to experience. if you ever get a chance to hear it, Waajeed did a mix CD for 555 Soul that is all electro and non-hiphop. its a dope mix.
― pipecock, Sunday, 10 February 2008 20:12 (sixteen years ago) link