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

no duh rev but you know i'm partially right darn it

it's easy to keep going back in time on this, the black avant-garde did not even start with sly stone as you know but a lot of this stuff sounds like dubbed-out remixes of there's a riot goin' on

I was more talking in regards to the start of this current scene (as I'm sure you were) but lets not get lost in these sort of arguments. Please.

Oh, and why do I have to be the big booster for the Foreign Exchange album?

"Daykeeper"

cover of Stevie Wonder's "If She Breaks Your Heart" (my current last.fm count: 43)

I got it now rev. Wonderful stuff. Thanks for your rec on this!

XD

b-b-but i wasn't trying to...OH FORGET IT, I WILL GO BACK TO MY OLD MAN KIOSK AND LISTEN TO GOMEZ

I still need to listen to that Foreign Exchange album, I'll try to do it tomorrow.

Anywho, more Swedish weirdness, Kissey Asplund:

http://www.myspace.com/kisseyasplund

I meant to ask about Kissey Asplund, I heard something or other by her and liked it.

This is my THREAD!

Rodney, is it time to xpost this:

http://www.last.fm/group/afrofuturists

???

haha, I forgot I started that group! If you are on last fm, please join it!

liking this Kissey Asplund track

Indeed

Non-rap Bangladesh:

Kelis - "Bossy," "Aww Shit"
Beyonce - "Diva"
Ciara - "Hotline"
M.I.A. - "Hit That"

Shawnna's "RPM" (obv. rap, though) never got enough attention.

The new Steve Spacek album is really good...
The Sa Ra Creative Partners Thread, finally...
Underground R&B
Spacek - Microsoul? (*shudder*)

"Sa-Ra ft. Rozzi Daime - So Special"

this track is like something from 1992.

Some other releases, not yet specifically cited, for which I will rep:

Pattie Blingh & the Akebulan 5 - Sagala (GA Muldrow plus a little Declaime/Perkins; later Samiyam mix of "To: Re" is also pretty much messed up)

Dabrye's off-center R&B'ish remix of King Midas Sound's "One Ting"

Steve Spacek's pair of solo 12" for Jazzy Sport

Rahsaan Patterson - "Pitch Black," with the Cure bassline and bubbling tarpit FX:

still lovin Sy Smith's 'Conflict'

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

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

Good thread.

super duper work yall

Madlib featuring Georgia Ann Muldrow, "The Plan Pt. 1"
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haha WHOOPS
http://www.youtube.com/v/lOMqutXWf4Q&hl=en&fs=1%22

okay i knew nothing good would come of my trying to come back here, sorry everyone, delete effed-up post plz

Why is there no info online about Hello My Name is Tiombe Lockhart?

Not even her bling47 entry:
http://www.bling47.com/index.cfm

Did I find a bootleg or something?

"Sa-Ra ft. Rozzi Daime - So Special"

this track is like something from 1992.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, December 21, 2008 8:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

I knoiw, right?

Sounds like Young Disciples or seomthing, lightly remixed by SA-RA

Have you seen Rozzi's photos?

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/PappaWheelie/RozziDaime.jpg

This thread is an example of why I stay on ILM

i thought it sounded like chante moore...

im reinvestigating this last van hunt album. more of a new wave influence on it but it just seems so derivative. some nice touches here and there but barring a few tracks on each album where it all comes together, he still seems to have absolutely no certain identity of his own.

he sings too tepidly too. argh. i just want to slap him.

Anyone know a good place to get mixtapes (err, CDs) of this stuff? The bling47 website isn't selling any at the moment...

Buy links on Waajeed's myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/waajeedandthebling47group

i love janelle monae but she only has one KO song so far - smile. if anyone could take this stuff mainstream, its her... but ive a feeling this stuff will stay underground with the gilles/benji b listeners and straight no chaser/shook readers.

Szechuan dumplings
After the deal has been done

http://bossip.files.wordpress.com/randyandguest2.JPG

"randyand'guest'" -- oof.

Off topic I know but woah Andy "R.P.M" is amazing.

Will check out a lot of the stuff in this thread. I like that first Foreign Exchange youtube vid.

I know we're doing our best to steer clear of boundaries here, but I think Foreign Exchange is more of a Darien Brockington/Eric Roberson/Dwele thing.

DJ Spinna's neo-soul efforts probably too.

OMG I feel so behind on this thread. Pappa, your new screen name rocks.

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

Eric H. just posted this on the Sa-Ra thread and oh fucking man is it doing my head on. The talkbox/Herbie coda ffs

Thanks bim.

And Eric H/Rev, this Sa-Ra/Badu thing SMOKES

ok im not sure what the boundaries are on this but does meshelle ndgeocello count? what about that bilal album from last year?

i love janelle monae but she only has one KO song so far - smile. if anyone could take this stuff mainstream, its her... but ive a feeling this stuff will stay underground with the gilles/benji b listeners and straight no chaser/shook readers.

― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Sunday, December 21, 2008 4:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is so rong dude -- many moons???

also i dont think it works the same way in the u.s. as it does in the u.k. as far as 'underground-mainstream'

theres a really niche-but-large slow jamz audience out there that some of these artists can easily get slotted into

anywayz awesome thread!!

Me'Shell was never as good as she was here IMO. But this was amazing:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=30QtMpCnmS4

I really like her whole first album though.

ha thought that was gonna be the basement jaxx track

That was probably her next peak TBH. Though really I wouldn't know about the last few albums.

greg tate on MeShell Ndegeocello's The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams: "stupendously, consistently genius"

me'shells cover of hendrix's may this be love might be the best thing shes ever done.

ive only heard it once tbh

Hmm now I'm curious. Thom Jurek's AMG review makes it sound like the greatest album ever made but so many of his reviews do that (esp. for long term female singers making tough, uncompromising, experimental albums 10+ years after their commercial peaks).

Maybe you don’t always have to do something “new,” but there’s something missing from the Black Grapefruit song that keeps me from being wowed.

reread this whole thread the other night. really miss this meta-genre lane in my ilx reading

curmudgeon was otm about black grapefruit i think, i am easily mesmerized by aesthetic

https://terence.bandcamp.com/album/v-o-r-t-e-x

really liking this! debut from someone more famous as a filmmaker

listening to J*Davey the beauty in distortion for the first time in 10+ years. Sounds f’in great. Love all the warm distortion.

The Niecy Blues record is really really good (sorta minimal, 'lo fi', spacey r&b)

https://niecyblues.bandcamp.com/album/exit-simulation

https://jouskajouska.bandcamp.com/album/suddenly-my-mind-is-blank-2

i liked this jouska album a fair bit

yo niecy blues is dope af. just gave the whole spotify availabilities a marathon run. got DAMN. from gothy ethereal sounds to ambient drones to straight up modern r+b... really thorough stuff.

also she kinda sounds like amber from we are king.♡