From the fire vocaled/Ash and molten glass like EyjafjallajöPOLL - ILM Artist Poll #108: MF DOOM. Voting til April 11.

just gonna vote and live with the regret

just got home for the day and determined to sort mine out,lol

Regardless of your top pick, how do people compare Food and Doomsday? I think Food is the absolute peak and yet.. Doomsday is the original/the return and has more moods..is just more than the sum of its parts.

side 4 of Madvillainy >>>>>> oxygen

Mm Food suffers for having like 10 skits in a row in the middle, makes me wanna skip half the record

It is a weird move. Easy to skip, though I usually don't. Bit of a rest between barrages of classics. What would drag it down for me is if the Paul Barman track (on the Leftovers EP) had made it on there! As it is, pretty much perfect. If you've got that original Kookies beat:

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

Deadline tonight! I didn't say a timezone, but i won't be doing anything with them tonight, so by Monday 7AM Eastern let's say.

Trying to make my list now and errrr this is a lot harder than I thought it would be. I’ve not even considered kmd yet

Should we maybe extend this? I said I’m doing the graphics for it and even I’ve not had time to vote. Ilx has seemed quiet for the past 2 weeks too, maybe we can hopefully get more folks involved with another weeks drive

Are weekends a bad time to end? Maybe Thursday night? Who else could use a bit more time?

I could get a ballot in by Thursday

Cool. I've heard from others too. We push on to Thursday night.. midnight Pacific. Thanks all.

I just saw this and 100% will vote – might need a day tho to marathon some albums.

oops – thursday is great thx!

Sorry, never voted in one of these things before. Do I have to email or can I just post my votes here?

Email it to the address in the opening post.

Already feels like ages since I voted. Being lazily Sp*tify-centric these days I neglected to check back on VV2 until afterwards. I'll not be losing tooooo much sleep over it, it turns out.

apparently he selected the producers for that one via raffle. and it sounds like it!

"Back End" is nice though -- with a young Diplo producing? And warns you off buying the record in the first line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7lTrzJGjEw

I was listening to vintage busta today and thought it was a shame no one tried to pair him with doom. He always sounded best on kinda lo fi ummah or DJ scratch beats and he had his own apocalypse comic book shit going on, it would have been really easy to make up a storyline

there was this in 2016 at least

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1uN139ceB0

a random older track he guests on that one my favs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxRGUo4tLjE

THE FINAL (29) HOUR(S) IS HERE FOR THE PEOPLE OF ILX

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKDeN198j8M

i only just noticed the spottify playlist last night!

(i'll be submitting soon tho)

"shame no one tried to pair him with doom. He always sounded best on kinda lo fi ummah or DJ scratch beats"

Idk, rhymes galore, put your hands..., and many other tracks show busta was pretty fabulous, arguable better, on other sorts of beats. Doom on the other hand, was more like nas.

Doom on the other hand, was more like nas.

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candyman please email in a ballot. Dying to read that. To your earlier question about posting it on the board, people often do that following the roll-out (which will be on a new thread linked from here in the coming days). Cheers

Xpost, doom and nas are better on less produced boom bap stuff IMO. I mean that jj doom album was cool, but I prefer him on grittier stuff.

ah ok. i kinda disagree with that re: doom. i wouldn't call madvillain or mm food "gritty" in the traditional sense. viktor vaughn, sure.

Vikster the slickster tho

Umm but uh, he study rhymes and patter-ins
Climb so steep sometimes the beat don't be mattering

I'd close thread there if i could

just sent my nominations. i cant imagine my choices are that different to others tbh (listening back to operation doomsday, i forgot how much i must have listened to it at the time and how many of the songs i remembered so well, really hard to pick standouts) though i did add a top ten doom instrumentals list. madvillainy is overrated a bit i reckon, though i can accept its a good doom album and for people who find his beats a bit idiosyncratic, its prob easier to get into. i really wanted to nominate tick tick feat grimm (white album sample pre dangermouse!) but didnt know where to put it. you need to allow for a mf grimm bonus ballot! grimm and doom were a great duo.

You can totally vote for a Grimm produced by DOOM (or anybody else). Revisions before midnight Pacific are fine as well.

I'm liking the top beats list as well. I will probably be able to produce a "herbs" list just out of the vocal versions people voted for. I mentioned maybe doing that in OP but never suggested sending in a herbs list. Though a bunch of people did include instrumentals among their tracks.

oops that reads backwards. Anybody produced by DOOM is fair game on the tracks ballot, I meant.

Also, I've replied to all ballots. If you haven't heard back from me, shout at me here.

ill prob leave it as is but might do a grimm/doom top 10 list as a bonus ballot (argh i might have to find my MIC album too).

actually i didnt include the gheedorah album in my album list, just cos it was more of a doom crew rather than doom album, but it is my favourite doom album in terms of his productions.

It would be best to slot them into one big tracks ballot along with your instrumental picks. Otherwise it'll just be some input for me doing some stats on instrumentals, and something you could post in the roll-out thread for discussion. Whatever you like tho.

yeah Geedorah is tricky to place. Most have though. Slot it in there somewhere if you want to help boost it.

I'll just post it here later. Interested to see the results now.

Idk if this is still open but sent a ballot!

I’m not gonna be able to do the graphics until Sunday so maff how do you feel about still taking ballots until saturday?

ha yes ok. Send them in

I'll send one today.

Cool!

Finally did mine last night. Splitting hairs between things i noted 9 and 10 during a slow listen through this whole time. 60 tracks. One other ballot was that long too.

So max 60 tracks at this point, so I can go ahead and sort out the points scale soon. Minimum still just 10 tracks. And/or 5 albums. Still no max on albums.

I feel bad for pretty much ignoring dangerdoom but n/m

"I wouldn't call madvillain or mm food "gritty" in the traditional sense. viktor vaughn, sure."

Madvillainy isn't gritty? Sure sounds it to me. It has that whole dusty crate digging vibe all over it, to my ears. Partly why I'm not an unconditional maflub fan, sonetimes that dustiness feels a bit uniform.

Mmm food, true, theres more electro samples on there, which gives it a diff vibe and texture. But at this point IIRC producers like 9th wonder were using cleaner sonics too. As a producer I think doom seemed to use a lot of clear loops, but it was the way he triggered the samples that disrupted that smoothness.

The grit was always in his drums though, and the weird slightly drunken lopsided timing was how he triggered those drum tracks too

I want to see if anyone voted for nastradoomus lol