Sleeping in a Jar
Frank Zappa
Uncle Meat
Zappa Records : 1987
[Listen] [Buy]
Nardis
Bill Evans
Explorations
OJC : 1991
[Listen] [Buy]
Funny Ways
Gentle Giant
Gentle Giant
Mercury : 1970
[Listen] [Buy]
That Ain't the Way You Make Love
ZZ Hill
[Listen]
Hula Rock
Lew Howard & The All-Stars
[Listen]
Pearl
The Mamas and the Papas
People Like Us
Dunhill : 1971
[Listen] [Buy]
Cat
Teruo Nakamura
[Listen]
Friends and Strangers
Ronnie Laws
Friends and Strangers
Blue Note : 1977
[Listen] [Buy]
I'm getting carried away again. So much out there worth my time and devotion, not to mention just my attention in general. What do I mean?
Well, it's time for more sample-ish goodness. This time, I'm hitting the glory that is 2004's Madvillainy, surely one of the best releases in 2004 and launching gents MF Doom and Madlib into the spotlight once and for all.
In addition, a couple of funky cuts that made it into MF Doom's Special Herbs & Spices series in the form of various breaks.
I doubt this will be will a regular feature, but man, I've been obsessed with getting to the root of some favourite tracks and albums for a while. Palms Out Sounds does a much better job with the steady meal of obscure originals found in our modern bread and butter, but hey, this post is mainly to highlight Madlib, once again. I mean, the guy doesn't need the sustained validation, but Madvillain was constructed using a whole lot of weird-ass, difficult shit. Listening to the originals, it's incredible to me that he saw enough in them to bring them into the vision of Madvillainy. Odd riffs, weird vocal samples, and off-beat, off-kilter nuggets populate the landscape; here are just a few of them.
I feel like a magician breaking the code with posts like this.
1 comments:
Damn JT---You've reached a level where your competition is none---seriously. You're putting the rest of us to shame. Props on yet another great post.
P.S. Much gratitude for granting Souled On the elite Blue Label status in the links section ;)
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