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

rev wanna webmail a kev?

why not

no, but I downloaded that ysi when I saw it and I'm having a second wave of loving them, partic let me show yeah, which is some pretty classic old school disco imo. If anyone wants to recommend anything else by him i'd be happy to hear it.

yeah that let me show ya was actually a jazzanova track he was featured on, if you didnt know. i've got "this is what it is", an EP of his, which didn't leave much of an impression on me, but he's featured on a couple of other jazzanova tracks from of all the things. i forget who but i think someone said he's coming out with something this year

yeah i know, i like it more than rough and tough tho

I got the impression from discogs that he had already put out his own version of that song and maybe they sampled the vocals?

So I saw Muhsinah and Platinum Pied Pipers last night. Well, only really one song by PPP b/c they didn't go on until 1 AM and I'm old.

Thoughts on Muhsinah: really dug her sound a whole lot -- but her songwriting is kinda weak, IMO. I like that her melodies are unpredictable, full of weird half-note jumps, but it's almost to a fault: lots of times it just sort of sounded meandering. But I'd be interested in hearing the recordings.

i) heads up to grab muhsinah's the oscillations: square 2day

ii) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i_7gDhLqpE

"her songwriting is kinda weak"

thats pretty much all these guys :(

Questlove, Foreign Exchange, Zo & Carlitta Durand - Purple Flip

new sa ra album is really disappointing. sounds like all the acts it influenced. lost all focus.

it sounds like theyre essaying everything.

is this kind of music strictly for the grown and sexy?

nahh.

i mean, yeah, but the young and repulsive can listen too.

http://djkaleem.podomatic.com/

Some relevant tracks in the first mix.

*new to the board* - hello!

Nice, I've been looking for a good introduction to Peven Everett.

Welcome to ILX, Archi!

"i know all the bitches" by mr beatnick ft. ahu is just gorgeous http://www.myspace.com/mrbeatnick

dropped a bunch of cds at my local store for sale -- if i get fair value i will finally get the georgia anne muldrow record and then float around in the ether for a long time

dunno how 'out there' this is or if it should just be in reg-R&B thread but this is cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljJP86w7m3U&feature=player_profilepage

gettin a teedra vibe from that

dunno if this belongs in this thread either but what do you dudes think of the new nicolay record?

wasn't aware of it, is it a solo?

cool cover art
http://www.removethelabels.com/images/city_lights_vol_2.jpg

b-_-d

glad there are vocal tracks, wasn't hugely into the idea of an all-instrumental Nicolay record, but I shouldn't have worried about anything as the instrumentals are rich with detail, too

Ah, just realized the vocals on here are Carlitta Durand. I've been obsessed by "Her" off this - http://rs615.rapidshare.com/files/222174745/Carlitta_s_Way.rar - mixtape at various points.

I want to hear "Saturday Night" out, but realize it will probably never happen.

looks like the only place Hudson Mohawke's been mentioned on ilm is in the dubstep/wonky threads. this is the only song i've heard from him, but it def belongs in this thread. pretty nice.

http://www.thefader.com/2009/08/10/premiere-hudson-mohawke-rising-5-mp3/

yo at any point did ya'll discuss the j*davey album(s)? i know it's over a year old but i only got a hold of it a week ago and have been finding alot to love about it.

The J*Davey album was pretty enjoyable for a few listens. Some keepers there. I look forward to seeing where they go in the future.

Shafiq Husayn's En A-Free-Ka is pretty good, a lot better and a lot more focused than this year's Sa-Ra album. Interesting how most of the rhythms seem to be based more in Afro-beat than hiphop or R&B.

vid is pretty cool. sounds like a mix between outkast and sa-ra

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

i dont like that one much -- was def feeling this tho

havent checked the album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hWrxfuzwjQ

ugh hate that dude. garish neon bullshit imo

Kinda surprised at the mellowness/playfulness of Kings Ballad, no?

damn, GAM got another album already?

I know I stan for anything FE-related but OMG this is so fucking good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV5mNZ_fVnc

I hope you have a little girl
And she's the apple of her eye
You'll never see her cry
Til somebody breaks her heart
The way you did mine
I hope they make her cry
I hope somebody makes her cry
*cue guitar solo*

pretty much going to listen to this song on repeat all day now

damn, GAM got another album already?

Early February, yeah -- very good (if not Umsindo level).

The Quadron album is my favorite of the year thus far (without doubt my year-end number one).

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

damn, GAM got another album already?

Early February, yeah -- very good (if not Umsindo level).

Kings Ballad is so much more listenable and interesting to me than Umsindo, which often prized weirdness over actual quality. Here the balance is a lot better.

FITE

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTmAHP1MSck

Reminds me of when we had to take our daughter to Chuck E Cheese and she slept through an entire birthday party while in her stroller, five feet in front of the animatronic loudness.

pretty much going to listen to this song on repeat all day now

― samosa gibreel, Friday, April 2, 2010 6:15 AM Bookmark

I did this yesterday. Might do it today.

Dunno if the J*Davey fans on the thread knew, but they released a freebie ep on xmas day last year: http://jdavey.bandcamp.com/

I'm still waiting for "Dollar or More" to show up in full anywhere. They've been sitting on that song for at least two years, and if it doesn't show up on the next full length, I'm gonna blow a gasket.

Yeah, I've been meaning to give that ep a second spin for a while

I'm way into that Yahzarah track posted upthread a bit.

i originally thought it had nothing to do with the production since the vocal is so outstanding, but it's not like i ever would've been smart enough to know that pop-punk drums way loud in the mix would ever work in a song like this. any releases i should check out?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxihZyey1qM

xp: If you haven't, check out the Foreign Exchange's Leave It All Behind (which features Yahzarah, among others, on vocals) and Nicolay's City Lights 2: Shibuya, both of which are produced by Nicolay and of excellent quality, albeit much more subdued than this. I haven't heard Yahzarah's previous albums, though. I may have to now.

I'm also happy to find out today that there's a new FE album in October. I am becoming such a total stan for them. XD

xp- word, one of my favourite songs of the year so far. i bumped the cult of dilla thread a while ago asking for recs of similar sounding stuff and got told to just read the psychedelic rn'b thread. good things happen when this thread is regularly updated.