The Sa Ra Creative Partners Thread, finally...

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