II: The End

[Wesley Foxx]

[mr. please-please]

[Superfrequency]

It will be a sad day indeed when Quincy Jones dies

[Stij]

My tolerance for records that are just "look how fast we can play, look how loud we are, look how many scales I know, look how not-musical I can get away with being" is very low. For the most part I need strong harmonies, just everyone soloing for 40 minutes doesn't cut it.

Big reason why I am a big fan of Stanley Clarke and George Duke. They can do the fusion/jazz funk thing while still being accomplished composers and don't do totally self-indulgent bullshit all of the time. The first Mahavishnu record is the only one I can really stand.

Yeah, fair enough.

[Superfrequency]

SPECIAL BIRTHDAY BLOWOUT DOUBLE POST

CAN YOU HANDLE THE HYPOCRISY/FLAVOR

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[Stij]

You guys

I just found out that Battles is going to be on the soundtrack for Eclipse



Battles is a really cool, unique band and it kinda hurts me to see them do this. Plus the track isn't even very good. If this is what their new album is gonna sound like, then count me out. All the bleepy electronic polyrhythmic nonsense of their previous songs seems to be gone. And Tyondai is singing ACTUAL WORDS It's not bad per se, but it doesn't feel the same at all.

Bleh.

[zil]

Zil's Clearance Bin Impulse Purchases presents:



I like the song a lot although the attitude here strays a little far into "look how casual we are" territory for my taste.

[slyfan64]

You guys

I just found out that Battles is going to be on the soundtrack for Eclipse



Battles is a really cool, unique band and it kinda hurts me to see them do this. Plus the track isn't even very good. If this is what their new album is gonna sound like, then count me out. All the bleepy electronic polyrhythmic nonsense of their previous songs seems to be gone. And Tyondai is singing ACTUAL WORDS It's not bad per se, but it doesn't feel the same at all.

Bleh.

I wouldn't be so harsh, is it a sell out? For sure it is! But it will open them up to knew fans and help spread them out (I've never heard of them lol). When Thom Yorke did a solo work for New Moon, it apparently became one of the best scenes of the film (and I love this song, didn't see the movie, but 90% of the posts on youtube are "THIS WAS THE BEST PART"). So it may turn into a good thing!



here's some more Thom Yorke btw:

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My personal favorite

The opener to his album

[Superfrequency]

Had this beat in my head all day for some reason

na na na na naaaaa~

[Wesley Foxx]

[deathsbuddy]

God I love Thom Yorke. I've got The Eraser + RMXS and the FeelingPulledApartByHorses thingy.

And now for something completely different.

[Superfrequency]

I had forgotten how good that album is

[deathsbuddy]

It singlehandedly caused me to make it through AP World History. I'm talking 5 or 6 hours of homework every night.

[nextian]

[Acionyx]

[illisid]

...that was hypnotic...

[mr. please-please]

I haven't given 85-92 a good hard listen yet honestly.

On the subject of the very best in beats, I present 9TH WONDER (again)



I love his bass lines so damn much

[Superfrequency]

[slyfan64]

definitely one of the top 5 musicals out there

2:52 gets me every time

EDIT: some other great songs

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[Acionyx]

...that was hypnotic...

Yeah, it has that kind of effect.

Here, give this one a try.

[Jitka]

i dig the tull.

[Superfrequency]

[Michael]

Deltron is classic

Also fuck yeah on that DJ Format album. I wish it wasn't so physically obscure. It's what introduced me to Toronto (local for me!) rapper Abdominal, on this dope track:



Nice video too.

Also, anyone here into Jedi Mind Tricks? They recently started their own label, Enemy Soil, and one of the inaugural releases was this collaboration between singer Liz Fullerton (who has previously done vocals on some of the JMT shit) and Stoupe (fucking awesome producer of most of theJMT beats):



Love that. It makes me think of like, Feist or Zero 7 or something, but with a raw hip hop influence.

[Superfrequency]

Deltron is classic

I know a lot of hip hop heads who think that record is shit (it's too goofy and white for them hrp drp). I only like about half of it if I'm honest. Automator gets a little too Octagon-ish with the spacey beats at times.

[zil]

jumpin on the hip hop train toot toot