The Sa Ra Creative Partners Thread, finally...

Platinum Pied Pipers

The Vanishing System

Jneiro Jarel

unfortunately, these guys seem to be more backpacker than i'd like. the beats are cool, but the mcs are sorta ho hum.

my mom works at KCRW. she used to run the KCRW presents concerts but recently "retired" and now just voluteers on Morning Becomes Eclectic

JaXon that Peven Everett cover you did was great :)

http://www.art-ificial.com/indie/sa-ra.jpg

I'm relatively new to Los Angeles, but the strongest local scene is this freaky soul/house/hip hip that's going around...Sa- Ra, plantlife and i want to add Cody Chestnutt to this "movement". It's the best soul music i've heard in years.

they're definitely in that bo-ho Hippy Hopper camp. if you read the interviews the stuff they say comes off as a mix of philisophical and dudes who are just stoned out of their gourds.

their sly cover is ok but just like immaculate karaoke.

this is the criticism i hear the most, but i just don't see it - or maybe i don't get it. i think the "problem" is that i like music that most people say has no songwriting (i love Cherrywine and the new Mos Def). i don't even know what poor songwriting means.

OTM.

Good songwriting is mostly a myth as far as I am concerned.

much more jay dee than moodymann.

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

i don't think Platinum Pied Pipers is very good. decent beats, but bad mc/vocalists.

doesn't look like it

The Jneiro Jarel "Three Piece Puzzle" album is like whoa!

it's very...hazy. middle of august on the blacktop, hazy.

("once or twice" isn't a commentary on its quality, btw, just my lack of time.)

"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?

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

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.

goddamn those are good

I wish I could find a decent version of Hummer and Glorious on youtube. Those just destroy.

I hope "Fantastic Vampere" ends up on Nu AmErykah part 2.

what is "Fantastic Vampere"?

http://www.rappersiknow.com/2008/10/19/sa-ra-creative-partners-fantastic-vampere-featuring-erykah-badu-herbie-hancock/

I xposted it to here: itt: kinda out there, maybe kinda experimental, maybe kinda pretentious modern r&b

Amazing stuff, but 3 years old and way more Sa-Ra f/ Badu than the reverse, so I don't have any reason to believe it might show on New Amerykah 2

Yeah, 3 years old but still haven't gotten a good clean copy of it. (The one on imeem sounds like a first draft, but it whooshes through the headphones like damn!)

Point taken on the "featuring Badu" aspect, tho.

i saw ommas perform at a club earlier in the year - hilarious stuff. nice little (as in tiny, borderline white stripes numbers) band too.

The version posted on rappersiknow certainly sounds finished.

(It's downloadable btw)

Finished, but highly compressed/muted somehow.

I mean, good enough that I've been listening to it on repeat for the last two months, but still ...

What was the Monch track? It's off youtube now. I haven't found the two or three things I've half-listened to by these even interesting, but Hey Love is really nice, maybe i've been missing out.

Am I behind in this convo is is Monch's Agent Orange in question here?

Oh right I either didn't realize or i forgot that they produced that. Thought what you posted must have been a remix of a Desire track. Thanks.

Seems counter-intuitive that when Monch returned with much more soul and horns than I expected, sa-ra of all people were partly responsible for an expectation of stuff that was a bit more raw.

new album is out.

http://ubiquityrecords.com/shop/products/THE-SA%252dRA-CREATIVE-PARTNERS-%252d-NUCLEAR-EVOLUTION%2C-THE-AGE-OF-LOVE.html

yup. there's some great stuff, but overall it's a bit too much

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

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.

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

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.

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...

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

that track is super rad

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.

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.

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.

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

More thoughts on "The Nuclear Evolution"?

melodee n'mynor is a dope track

Who is mad amped?

HOOS is mad amped.

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

revisiting, they had some amazing shit

“Second time around” ep is sick

also “rosebuds”, “hanging by a string”

“Love czars” is pretty insane

wasn’t this g unit thing them too?

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

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

extremely OTM

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