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At 15 I began seeking out records, blindly in the .50 cent "green tag" bins of the local record store. I had been listening to Nas, A Tribe Called Quest Madlib, People Under The Stairs, DJ Shadow, J Dilla, Deltron 3030... and I needed to know how they made the music, learning the secret was sampling bits, pieces, and elements from old vinyl records, I set out, equipping myself with knowledge from blogs, Waxpoetics magazines, Dusty Fingers vol. 1-15 that I downloaded on a whim, Ultimate Breaks and Beats (I had the full list saved as a PDF).
I have developed my love, and sensibilities by going through probably 500,000 different records at every imaginable sort of place to find them.
Every city I would visit, from NYC, Seattle, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dayton, Cleveland, Providence, D.C., Boston, Miami, Chicagoand so many many more, I would hit up every record store I could fit in.
I have a love for the classic staples, but I'm mainly going for the different, the almost accidental, genre long abandoned for my classification purposes, if it is interesting, then its within my interest.
Aspiring amateur musicologist seeking to be one of many reforming the discipline from its insular inaccessible narrow academic posture, to a discipline that seeks to move into many worlds, many views, many interpretations, seeing validity on a wider scale, so this particular expression of humanity, recorded music may form a legacy for the scholarly as well as keeping it real for anyone who digs music.
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Born in 92' (close to infinity by a year...)
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Oregon
Favorite genres: Hip-Hop, Jazz (in all the myriad forms), Soul, Funk, Psych...genres are a marketing technique, to arbitrarily sort, classify, and categorize music, narrowing it into a box.
I've been told I'm like a sarcastic national geographic.
Always have love for humanity
Salaam means Peace, Peace Upon you beautiful people!
I have developed my love, and sensibilities by going through probably 500,000 different records at every imaginable sort of place to find them.
Every city I would visit, from NYC, Seattle, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Dayton, Cleveland, Providence, D.C., Boston, Miami, Chicagoand so many many more, I would hit up every record store I could fit in.
I have a love for the classic staples, but I'm mainly going for the different, the almost accidental, genre long abandoned for my classification purposes, if it is interesting, then its within my interest.
Aspiring amateur musicologist seeking to be one of many reforming the discipline from its insular inaccessible narrow academic posture, to a discipline that seeks to move into many worlds, many views, many interpretations, seeing validity on a wider scale, so this particular expression of humanity, recorded music may form a legacy for the scholarly as well as keeping it real for anyone who digs music.
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The stats:
Born in 92' (close to infinity by a year...)
Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Oregon
Favorite genres: Hip-Hop, Jazz (in all the myriad forms), Soul, Funk, Psych...genres are a marketing technique, to arbitrarily sort, classify, and categorize music, narrowing it into a box.
I've been told I'm like a sarcastic national geographic.
Always have love for humanity
Salaam means Peace, Peace Upon you beautiful people!
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Definitely one of the more unique, enduring private press albums in my collection. A sort of downtempo instrumental "Liquid Liquid" take on Bill Withers "Ain't No Sunshine" and soul classic "You're No Good" (Harvey Averne's version is imho the best,...
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Certified Aluminum: meets RIAA threshold of selling 10 or more copies!
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Criminally underrated Jazz LP. Haig is in top form, and accompanied by Ahmad Jamal's trio (of such classics like "The Awakening", Outertimeinnerspace, etc.) of bassist Jamil Nasser, and drummer Frank Gant. It is hardly surprising that the typically...
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This is the version that panned in stereo, the track A2 Django was used by Pete Rock!
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First off, I cannot recommend more that one seek the Interscope pressing, which is fantastic, the Polydor is problematic....
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The cover of Sade's "Smooth Operator", an incredible steel drum sort of jazz funk instrumental is amazing, coming in second is the George Benson cover, another steel drum jazz funk sort of instrumental, and both of John Barnes's originals "Tempered...
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It's an attempt at a "studio effect" from what I've heard :). Personally I find the false start kind of cool, unique forsure!
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It's a rare occurrence where in this case, the promo version which itself was pressed in small quantities survived in larger quantities, because the "stock" copy, this release for consumers, was only pressed in one batch, before the LP, and sold...
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I think it does! I believe there is some "Ur" source, likely older that influenced both.....but this is only a preliminary hypothesis, good catch my friend!
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Generally most records that take a "Star Wars" theme fall into hokey cliché, novelty.
This is absolutely an exception, I recall years ago in the dollar bins catching this (I mistakenly entered a white label, only to have recently corrected that... See full review |
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Amazing album, underrated in the Jackson canon. In finally getting a chance to play it all the way through, I was surprised, it way exceeded my initial thought that it was decent, into a very cool fully rideable album.
Rebbie soars! |
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It's been posited that the B-Side non-album cut "Tattoo" is a great early example of proto trip-hop, containing many elements one could identify in Massive Attack, Portishead, Galliano amongst others.
Certainly it seemed to contain those sonic... See full review |
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Bird weaving through traffic, express visions so graphic that this "wire" travel telepathic... Tha Subliminal Kid on the remix...
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1972 is the correct year, based on the catalogue # :)
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Talk about a wild bump seemingly out of thin air, this sort of hip-hop jazz-funk neo soul instrumentals blow the mind, like if the Headhunters and DJ Premier got together with the Meters, with Teddy Riley offering up advice.....It shook, and the...
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Listening to Jerry Butler's tour de force....is like a "long day's journey into night" ;).
We all need "pipe dreams", they sustain us. Hickey approves! |
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Jazzman Holy Grail Series.... It would totally fit in, they should do it, as their reissues are incredible. The original is great fidelity, whenever I play it, I'm always blown away, it's like a record a beat digger would dream up as a fantasy....
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Miroslav Vitous guests on this gem! One of the last "undiscovered" Giants....
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Back in 2010 I was 18 first job and my first car was a Saturn, it had a cassette player. So at my local record shop, which had CD's, and DVD's, as well as a giant table of cassette's, I bought a few, including Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth's 1st, De La Soul...
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"Holy Calamity scream insanity, all you ever gonna be is another great fan of me...break"
THPSU meta-source |
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1972 is the correct year, when I was visiting Philly, I talked to a few old timers who knew some of the band members, it's possible it was recorded in late 1971, and when in 1972 I don't know, but 1972 is the year this dropped.
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This is definitely a Ramsey Lewis on Cadet you don't come across a lot. I found Mother's Nature more often.
I remember this was a long long ago purchase, when I was just starting out, and I knew Maurice White was connected to Earth, Wind, and Fire,... See full review |
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My copy, which I suppose doesn't have a discogs entry, has nice packaging with the cover art found on the CD. It's a high quality packaging, I almost wonder if they did that for a few, but to keep expenses down, the rest were these basic sleeves.
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Definitely a cool modern soul xian LP. I think only three of the tracks are in a more "power pop" vein, but the rest is more reminiscent of say Rick Astley, or Roger Whittaker's "Genius of Love", the later 80's white dude with vocal chops soul.
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Dis Is Da Drum, the full album is only available on CD or Cassette, even to this day there is no existent vinyl issues.
So this single, which features 3 tracks from the album, and A2 Call It 95' (flip hop mix) which is a cool remix of the album... See full review |
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I'd say Classic (with KRS-ONE, Nas, Rakim, and Kanye) is probably up there, it blew the Rick Rubin A-side out of the water. But this is definitely on point, really I put both of these on the next level...big pun intended ;).
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An excellent album by the inimitable Teddy Pendergrass, there exists copies on the shrink wrap with a sticker promoting Close The Door!
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Deep Bill Evans LP. Shelly Manne, and Monty Budwig help form this incredible one-off trio, featuring some of Budwig's best bass playing that accompanies Evans, augments Manne so well (check out Budwig's 1977 LP on Concord!).
But Evans steals the... See full review |
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Absolutely incredible deep self-released golden age hip-hop....The music is bonkers, and the cover art for the jewel case is just incredible in the minimal image, and text, along with the back cover art, when I picked it up at the Goodwill I just...
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So true! I had the LP way before getting the single, when I came across a very nice copy w/ the original sleeve in Baltimore for like $15 of the 12", I had to buy it, and one thing I will say, the 12" has a thicker sound, it's a small detail to most...
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1,000 with half going to Nike industry people, the other half is press, "friends" of Nike, boutique's, select DJ's, and often their friend circles.
Of course Wu-Tang, LeBron, and their circles got a bunch. |
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So, this is not "thug rap", it's hip-hop, and check the verses, conscious, KWest braggadocio, truly classic lines of legends.
This really should be corrected. In general surrounding "thug rap" as a genre, and really can we retire that? It's 2020... See full review |
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Way ahead of it's time...9dw is tapping into the sonic tapestry of electronic jazz dance that a decade after it's release has become a staple.
This is such an essential instrumental boogie jazz synth 2xLP, that does not disappoint. Wax Poetics did a... See full review |
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Ray Brown, one of the most enduring genius's of the acoustic bass, a true master of the instrument, an extension of his very diagesis (the creative narrative), shows a virtuoso propensity in substitution for the Cello, which he stirs, no cliché, or...
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A few years ago, at my local shop I found this, a nice copy, and it was "unknown", I remember being convinced it was worth the $3.60 from seeing John Von Ohlen as the drummer on the credits. (as a native son of Ohio, I am also a sucker for promising...
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B2 Malcolm's Beat, which is Malcolm Catto roaring out heavy drum breaks on the trap kit is really dope.
Listening to this album though, shows Egon's talents, rare funk 45 collecting definitely, trying to utilize them as producer... it reveals a lack... See full review |
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Emil Richards, Paul Horn, Tommy Tedesco, Frank Capp...among others... these are all original compositions, very eclectic by Quigley. Perhaps it being an instrumental jazz release on a rockabilly label, with somewhat of a generic cover that doesn't...
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I remember first getting into Lenny White around 2009, still in High School I had just begun diggin' in the crates not long ago, and I was just pulling anything out of the .50 cent bins that looked cool, I got his first on Nemperor Venusian Dreams...
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Incredible East Coast Style "random rap"... One of the MC's has a sound similar to Raekwon. Also A3 Battle Trax Manifested (For The UNDA), and B3 Wartime (For The UNDA) are amazing instrumentals, A3 is more of a DJ track, B3 sounds like some dope...
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I timed it, Sleep Walking comes in at 3:50, excellent track.....
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The Norman Williams playing on this LP, is Bishop Norman Williams, Michael Howell played on some of his LP's, they were good friends in the Bay Area jazz scene of the...
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Absolutely spectacular double-sider! I was able to track down a guy in San Antonio who worked for Manny Guerra back in the day to find out information about this elusive release... It was their last of the four during the "classic era" (the first two...
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For those curious, you can play it without the DBX disc decoder on a regular turntable, it has a "thicker" sound, more low-end, which is cool, I got a chance to compare it to the regular on Inner City, and I kind of prefer the DBX "mix", the kick...
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Indeed! I always wondered about this, as mine didn't come with the warning sticker, but it was clear A2, and B2 were the same. I recall for years believing "Family Talk" to be Dom's Tune, until I listened on a streaming service, and I couldn't find...
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I actually thought the two standout tracks (and that does not imply the other remaining tracks lack in any quality), are better then the standout tracks on Live At Pep's which is of course from the same session.... This is the first release for these...
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I remember picking this up toward the beginning of my record collecting odyssey, maybe around 9-10 years ago, it was in a bargain bin, I got it on the strength of Herbie Hancock being featured, I remember listening to it, digging Timeworn in...
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One of many things that amazes me about this session has to do with the drummer, James Black from New Orleans... He played the drums on Eddie Bo's "Hook and Sling" later on, among other Funk 45 New Orleans releases....
On A1 Psychicemotus Written-By... See full review |