The Return to Innocence Lost
March 14, 2008 at 3:39 pm
… Footsteps. Nothing but footsteps, loud and clear, walking the length of the brownstone apartment above. A constant pacing that started near the front door, walked to the opposite end of the house, turned and walked back to the door. Slowly, methodically, but unmistakably. At first, I believe the radio was on, I could hear this strange pacing (they had no dogs or pets of any kind) only intermittently, until it finally made its way into our consciousness as the Art Director’s Daughter and I made dinner. I turned off the radio. Then, when it was very quiet, a chill went up and down my spine as I listened to the mysterious, relentless pacing.Finally, I went upstairs to knock on the door, but of course no one answered. I could not see or hear anyone (or anything) through the door. - Brooklyn Beat, A Real Brooklyn Ghost Story.
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” Unity List No.2 ”
01. The Roots - The Return to Innocence Lost
Things Fall Apart (1999)
02. Only Child feat. Kriminul - Memories
Nu Soul (2004)
03. Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic Woman
Black Magic Woman (Blue Horizon, 1971)
04. DJ Spooky - no no no (remix)
Creation Rebel (Sanctuary Records, 2007)
05. Boxcutter - Rusty Break
Glyphic (Planet Mu, 2007)
06. A Tribe Called Quest - Rap Promoter
The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)
07. A Tribe Called Quest - Butter
The Low End Theory (Jive, 1991)
08. Badawi - Attack of the Giant Fruit Flies
Bedouin Sound Clash (Roir, 1996)
09. Monty Alexander - Love And Happiness
Strange Funky Games And Things (Bbe / Beat Gen, 2005)
note: Different texture of hip-hop. Hip-hop to me, always seems to be about large subject matter. A guy rapping about social injustice, urban life and its problem. They have big beat, thumping rhythm, preferably screaming mad, at least the albums that I listen to a lot. So here is a reverse, something intimate, personal, and warm but at the same time retain that hip-hop feel. Layered tracks, mash of styles and rhymes, urban blues updated for 2008. What is the sound of 2008 hip-hop anyway?
Chilled hip hop and california groove. The sound of Brooklyn?
Nice afterglow playlist.
Sort of, was going to make brooklyn playlist, but can’t concentrate long enough to keep the beat. It’s all over the place.
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Wiki stuff
The Roots, a.k.a. The Legendary Roots Crew, are an influential, Grammy Award-winning American hip hop band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, famed for a heavily jazzy sound and live instrumentation. They made their debut in 1993 and have gone on to collaborate with artists from a range of genres, such as Roy Ayers and Cody Chesnutt. Inspired by the “hip-hop band” concept pioneered by Stetsasonic, The Roots themselves have garnered critical acclaim and influenced later hip-hop and R&B acts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roots
DJ Spooky (born Paul D. Miller,1970), is a Washington DC-born electronic and experimental hip hop musician whose work is often called “illbient” or “trip hop”. He is a turntablist and producer. He borrowed his stage name from the character The Subliminal Kid in the novel Nova Express by William S. Burroughs .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ_Spooky
A Tribe Called Quest
Q-Tip and Phife were childhood friends and had grown up together in St. Albans, Queens. The pair first met Muhammad in Murray Bergtraum High School. Initially, Q-Tip had been performing as a solo artist (MC Love Child), occasionally teaming up with Muhammad as a rapper/DJ duo. Although the pair frequently made demos with Phife (as Crush Connection), the sports enthusiast was still courting ambitions of playing professional basketball, and remained somewhat reluctant to become a full member of the group, only later relenting after Jarobi also joined, thus making the group a quartet. The group’s final name was coined in 1988 by the Jungle Brothers, who attended the same high school as Tribe[4]. Q-Tip made two separate appearances on the Jungle Brothers’ classic debut album, Straight Out the Jungle; the songs “Black Is Black” and “In Time”, respectively. Afrika Baby Bam of the group introduced Q-Tip to De La Soul when he took the aspiring artist along to a studio session for the recording of the remix for the group’s song “Buddy”. Produced by Prince Paul, the remix of “Buddy” was to be an all-round Native Tongue affair, and the eccentric producer encouraged Q-Tip to contribute to the now-classic record.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tribe_Called_Quest
instrumentalist, Reuel “Raz” Mesinai (born 1973 in Jerusalem and raised in New York City) composes innovative avantgarde electro acoustic music under his own name and is also well known for his hybrid Middle Eastern and Dub productions under the alter ego Badawi. Mesinai’s music is usually highly rhythmic with a particular keen sense of microtonal sound. Considered by some to be a “sound alchemist”, Mesinai began playing frame drum and piano at the age of seven and was highly influenced by shamanic and trance ritual music as a child by his single transient mother who raised him in the Buddhist, Jewish, Sufi, and Christian traditions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badawi_%28musician%29
A Tribe called quest - Jazz(We’ve Got) & Buggin’ Out (this one I think if my fav track)
DJ Spooky on Duchamp at Dallas Museum of Art
Word, urban Blues born from strife is the way I remember hip-Hop. Good post. thks.
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