You do realise that you really fucking suck, right? Like Return Of The DJ compilation series albums on Bomb Records (a series of unlistenable turntablist albums from the late nineties which made Eric B's cacophonous Chinese Arithmatic sound as awesome as Behold The Detonator by Tuff Crew) levels of dreadfulness?
At least back in those days of the Return Of The DJ cackfests there was the alternative of the Crooklyn Clan 12"s which AV8 Records were releasing. Be Faithful with Fatman Scoop was a club classic which somehow became an unlikely # 1 on the worldwide pop charts 4 years after it emerged in 1999, but, realistically, there's only one east coast party jam from the nineties whose arms aren't too short to box with the godly The 900 Number and it's not Let Me Clear My Throat by DJ Kool, which is cool and a top five live-rap song of all time (Here We Go by Run Dmc being the G.O.A.T in that department), but the Crooklyn Clan track from the Chooze One EP where DJ Riz & DJ Sizzahands gave the Benjamins instrumental a dose of gamma-rays and then added a scattering of incredibly well selected vocal snippets and came up with this leviathan :
Crooklyn Clan - The Franklinz (1997)
A perennial Funkmaster Flex favourite (one imagines Cipha Sounds got "The Shoulder" from Flex a few times trying to sneak this into his sets at The Tunnel), still a Westwood staple to this day, a joint which I've witnessed lay waste to dancefloors on two seperate continents, and I once tried to play it at a sunday afternoon BBQ soiree some friends of mine threw a couple of years back only to receive the gasface from some middle-aged casual dad. Pfffft - what I look like half-steppin' with the clean version, doggie?
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too rights, its called rap music for a reason. id add a lot of that muddy boring trip-hop shite from the nineties to the list of stuff thats hard to listen to as well.
why cant more people take after subway theme instead?
i loved the way be faithful had near everyone doin the "pick it up" dance in even the most tea-towel shirt, missing teeth-ish setting too.
id add a lot of that muddy boring trip-hop shite from the nineties
Fuck "a lot", ALL of that shit needs erasing from time along with Endtroducing.
ha even portishead? "dummy"s my shit.
Nah, I don't really consider Portishead a part of that cack. Portishead were more their own entity and a damn fine one too.
Just the Howie B/a lot of the Mo Wax stuff/Ninja Tunes/Skint Records/Aim trip-hop shite and the Portishead rip-offs like Sneaker Pimps.
How you gon front on Endtroducing fo real???? Get the fuck out of here...Now Portishead...it was a good JOKE for a few years but that's all. I remember those RETURN of the DJ compilations too!!!! Covers were ugly!!!
yeh i wasnt a fan of any of that stuff i heard, ninja tune in particular. shadow does have good taste tho, he had turf talk and david banner on that one album.
i havent listened to much of their stuff but massive attack turned me off immediately with that mumble mouthed spoken word shit.
Truth. For every genuinely creative modern producer, there's gotta be approx. 5 thousand Belarusian cats churning out Dilla tribute beattapes.
"Be Faithful" still cranks - used to go this soul club in Leeds and they threw it on every Friday night round 1. And the crackers lost it.
Co-signing all of the above (although I thought some of Shadow's album was quite pleasant on the lugholes) but none of this belongs in the same sentence as the mighty Tuff Crew.
I thought the Return of the DJ comps where the dopest shit ever when they came out. I was probably 12 or 13 and I couldn't comprehend how anyone could make music like that. It was mind blowing back then. It felt like listening to 10 songs at once. ... Now I just enjoy them nostalgically not musically. And yes DJ party break tracks are always essential.
The only thing I liked on Endtroducing was The Number Song. The rest of it was incredibly dull.
i gotta second that "how you gonna front on endtroducing". that is one of the only dj shadow releases that i could successfully argue in favor of. "ITS ALL SAMPLES THO, BRO!" every track besides "stem-long stem-transission 2" is groovin. my opinion is greatly influenced by the fact i first heard that album in high school and thought it was dope, then reinforced by hearing it being played by the fine girl at the used cd store i frequented back in the day. his mixes with cut chemist are beyond amazing, especially for devout hip hop nerds.
i feel that j dilla's contributions are misinterpreted the same way jaco pastorius is misinterpreted (what up bass players). what makes people truly enjoy it is the groove/funk, not the technical abilities, be it virtuosicly fast playing or non-quantized beats/sidechaining/whatever. what makes both of their music great is the raw emotion, not the technical qualities. the people who claim to be "die hard fans" of jaco or dilla often do not understand what truly made these artists great. yes, jaco can play really fast, but so can yngwie malmsteen, and that fool sucks. what made jaco great was his ability JAM WITH OTHER PEOPLE, straight groovin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwhkPSEXs1Q
watch this and read the comments if you arent familiar with jaco/jaco fans.
donuts is this(last) decades endtroducing, except shadow is still alive.
also,
entroducing > dummy
that bitch's voice is too anoying, i wish that album was instrumental.
Portishead were great because of Beth's singing which is just so strange and sinister. Without that (or with a typiical black soul-chick or dreaded whisper-rapping a la 3D and Tricky instead) they'd have just been another Massive Attack tribute act. It's always more interesting to me when UK people use the influence of rap to create something fresh (80s Bomb The Bass and Coldcut stuff, Portishead, old jungle, some grime) than when they attempt to make rap, which rarely ever works.
2. Donuts is way too weird, emotional, raw, and banging to be compared to Endtroducing. You could never play Donuts in a restaurant or in a coffee shop, whilst Endtroducing was the standard soundtrack in both places for a time.
Fully agree on Jaco Pastorius, though. Natural swag and ability to be able to lock into these aamazing grooves.
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