Tag: J-Dilla
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Dead Poet’s Society
DEAD POETS SOCIETY by Beets This came up randomly I think during a Bandcamp trawl, it’s by BEETS and Dead Poet’s Society is a concept album of those who burned out too young, leaving their music. Fallen rappers, singers, comics, musicians all together, from Nick Drake to Biggie, Elliott Smith to Bill Hicks, ODB to…
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The return of Gold Panda
Have to say, I kind of missed that there was new Gold Panda coming out called ‘Good Luck And Do Your Best’…Lucky Shiner, his debut album has not left my iPod since 2010, the only album to have that honour. Later releases didn’t really do it for me…so it’s great that it seems GP has…
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Favourite albums / tracks of 2015
Ian Fondue asked me to post my favourite albums/songs of 2015. Not necessarily released in 2015, this year I tended to listen to older releases, Pitchfork and Stereogum are mostly confusing to me, the first year it’s mostly a bunch of names I have no idea who they are! It’s a long list, partly because…
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Donuts the Movie
Someone has created a 44 min video for the whole of the J Dilla Donuts album, it’s a little bit random in places but my favourite bit so far is inevitably Lightworks because Raymond Scott & Tomorrow People intro, but love the earlier bits with Aristocats, the Jacksons, and the very moody bit with Dionne…
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Return to the Cloud: Clams Casino, Trill and the new D.A.I.S.Y. age
A few years ago I was all about what later got called ‘Cloud Rap’ – Main Attracktionz, Babe Rainbow, Odd Future – I saw it as the hip hop successor to witch house and an extension of IDM. I tuned out, partly because the lyrical content wasn’t there, and listening now to the more recent…