Thursday, August 26, 2004
De La Soul back to grindin' | KRS-One Keeps Right | Why I might like Bob Dylan | Jonas Quant's broken-beat | Dread Event
Not much to talk about today but I did check out the new De La Soul album The Grind Date at a listening party last night. The LI trio are still sounding pretty good considering they are now seven albums deep although those hoping for a return to the sonic elcelcticism and loopiness of their early albums will be disappointed. This new album is much closer to the vibe of the albums in the unfinished AOI trilogy sound-wise. The first singles are "Grind Date" and the Madlib-produced "Shopping Bags" although, inexplicably, only the former is on the 12" and neither is on their website. Fellas: welcome to 2004, a lot of folks are finding out about new music via this thing called the internet which works real good for veteran acts who can't realistically expect to get a lot of radio and video airplay.
Speaking of veteran acts, KRS-One's new album Keep Right is shockingly good to my ears although others I've spoken to have panned it. Maybe, and this is embarrassing to admit given The Teacher's legendary status and track record of classic albums, I was feeling it because I set the bar of expectations so low?
If you're uptown this weeknd:
Darcel "the page Turner"
at
HUE-MAN BOOKSTORE
2319 Fredrick Douglass Blvd (aka 8th Avenue)
betw. 124th & 125th st.
212-665-7400
Friday August 27
6pm-8pm
Please RSVP at:
718-692-4905 or dancesonpaperprs@aol.com.
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Darcel Turner
This needs to be represented in a hip hop music video (from Masanori Shiohara's MasaMania photoblog. Note: link may be dead when you click it.)
Speaking of music videos: check out the animated flash style video for Swedish downtempo producer Jonas Quant's broken beat soul track "Tryin'" from his album Getting Out on Lax Recordings.
Underground hip hop from Dread Event:
"The World Is Round" | "Gross Resume" | "Crewsade"
(FYI: The "World Is Round" drops as a single September 6th.)
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And I never really appreciated why music critics were so open on Bob Dylan until I heard his song "Queen Jane Approximately" used in Bernadro Bertolucci's controversial (but inconsistent and, overall, kind of mediocre) movie "The Dreamers".
