2011-07-26
2011-07-25
【崇尚】Orrin Evans with Gene Stovall - This Masquerade
Pianoman
Orrin Evans
http://www.imani-records.com/
Frontman
Gene Stovall
http://genestovallmusic.com/
http://genestovall.bandcamp.com/
Orrin Evans
http://www.imani-records.com/
Frontman
Gene Stovall
http://genestovallmusic.com/
http://genestovall.bandcamp.com/
2011-07-22
【RHCP】A-Plus (of Souls of Mischief / Hieroglyphics) - Pepper Spray
Hip Hop fans who also enjoy the sounds of alternative rock group The Red Hot Chili Peppers will rejoice when they hear Pepper Spray, an EP release from A-Plus of Souls of Mischief/Hieroglyphics and production team Compound 7. The 7-song EP is a reimagining of some of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most epic tracks as a backdrop for MCs A-Plus, Del and Knobody. The brainchild of Compound 7 member AAGEE (who suggested an EP release with production based entirely off the Chili Peppers), PEPPER SPRAY is a specialty project, according to A-Plus.
“The whole purpose is a Hip Hop tribute to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, inspired by their music and dedicated to their work. The cover is going to be a spin-off of one of their most popular covers – it’s a theme all throughout,”
he explains. “The songs are all topic-oriented, sonically as well as lyrically. It’s a conceptual EP, certainly. I don’t want people to look at this like it’s MY new album, it’s something I worked on but it’s obviously in a different lane,” emphasizes A-Plus. “I’m stepping outside of my paradigm to do something new, different and artistic.”
Standout cuts on Pepper Spray include Californication, which features Del. A-Plus explains the significance of Californication – “The way the song is set up, you have to hear it, its two verses then the beat changes, then the verses again, like a refrain. I instantly thought of Del after we finalized the beat. The subculture of California is snaky but its home, that’s what the Chili Peppers’ song is about so I just rapped about what California is for me in the same way - the positive and negative.”
Memories and experiences of tours & being on the road are a recurring theme of the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ music as well as on Pepper Spray. “Road Trippin’ is a song about leaving to go on the road, and what it entails. Just being out from an artist’s perspective and how it’s a very hard but amazing job,” A-Plus reasons. “By the Way is another song about being on the road, but more of a specific story, of our tour bus getting pulled over, smelling like weed, me getting arrested, it’s a story – they’re both tour-story oriented.”
Pepper Spray, in drawing from one of the greatest alt-rock bands of this century and turning their sound into a Hip Hop format will undoubtedly draw new fans toward both genres of music and beyond. One thing is sure; Compound 7’s Pepper Spray is like nothing you’ve heard before.
2011-07-19
【換氣】Everything She Wants, Wham! + Zo! & Phonte + James Poyser & The ReBel Yell
應該是巧合吧
George Michael 的珠胎 Wham!
名曲之一的 Everything She Wants
出現在ZO!（也有驚歎號）的免費新曲作品裡
另一個重點是
James Poyser的團體 The ReBeL Yell 也在2009年玩了這首歌曲
（題外話：台北信義誠品 The Rebel Yell 的專輯進了一堆不知有人收購否）
但這歌並未收錄在正式專輯
需要的人可以自己找找
兩首比起來
The Rebel Yell 就是玩世不恭
而Phonte則是玩合聲玩上癮了～搭啦搭啦啦（居然還有 Remember the Time）
結論
Nu-Soul應該會在這兩三年內重新定義
並且在我聽完 Rahsaan Patterson 的新專輯 Bleuphoria 之後
2011-06-29
2011-06-27
【下載】Obenewa- Therapy Official Mixtape
英國的女聲品質愈來愈佳了
Obenwwa即為其一
2011年出版首張EP作品 Once Upon a Time 之前
2009年這張試水溫的專輯也有聆聽的價值
下載之前先來聽聽一段Obenewa接受Gilles Peterson的訪問吧
http://brownswoodrecordings.s3.amazonaws.com/Podcasts/87_Gilles_with_Obenewa.mp3
（來源 http://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/2011/05/gilles-peterson-worldwide-vol-4-no-10-obenewa/）
2011-06-22
【虔誠】Nuwamba @ ME Studio SXSW '07
Nuwamba的音樂始終埋藏我心
每當遭遇某些景況它便會自然浮現
也許Nuwamba至今也只發行那張 Above the Water 專輯
其音樂的珍稀性恰巧闡釋了逆境二字
特別是在睡意與汗溼衝突的夜裡
來幾支在ME Studio SXSW '07的MV吧
對了
Nuwamba也是Dallas人
與Erykah Badu、Geno Young是同鄉
了不起的地方
2011-06-21
【延續】RAPSODY - Thank H.E.R. Now / Skyzoo - The Great Debater
幾乎是同一批北卡羅萊納州的製作人
兩張專輯一起聽吧！
01. Thank You Pioneers
02. Thank H.E.R. Now [prod. 9th Wonder]
03. Lemme Think [prod. 9th Wonder]
04. Black Girl Jedi (Mara Jade) (ft. Heather Victoria) [prod. 9th Wonder]
05. Top Five (ft. King Mez & Laws) [prod. 9th Wonder]
06. Sweetest Hangover [prod. E. Jones]
07. Out Tha Trunk [prod. Amp]
08. Lampin’ [prod. Eric G.]
09. One Time (ft. Tab-One, Charlie Smarts & Phonte) [prod. 9th Wonder]
10. Extra Extra (ft. Mac Miller & Halo) [prod. Khrysis]
11. Fly Girl Power! (ft. Estelle) [prod. 9th Wonder]
12. Blankin’ Out the Remix (ft. Jean Grae) [prod. Khrysis]
13. Sky Fallin’ (My Mind) [prod. 9th Wonder]
14. Love, Peace, & Soul (ft. Tyler Woods) [prod. Ka$h]
15. Baby Yeah! (ft. Marsha Ambrosius) [prod. 9th Wonder]
16. So Be It (ft. Big K.R.I.T.) [prod. 9th Wonder]
17. Black Diamonds (ft. Raekwon) [prod. 9th Wonder]
18. H.E.R. Throne [prod. Nottz]
19. Star Warz (ft. Murs & Sundown) [prod. Vitamin D]
20. The State of the Union [prod. Eric G.]
01. Complicated Rhythm [prod. Best Kept Secret]
02. Rap Like Me [prod. Eric G.]
03. Written in the Drums [prod. Swiff D.]
04. Designer Drugs [prod. 9th Wonder]
05. Parade Me [prod. Fatin]
06. We Here [prod. Best Kept Secret]
07. Atypical [prod. !llmind]
08. Expensive Habits (ft. Jesse Boykins III) [prod. 14KT]
09. Until It All Goes (ft. Manhattan) [prod. C-Sick]
10. Test Drive [prod. !llmind]
11. Inheritance [prod. E. Jones]
12. Get Him to the Greek [prod. 9th Wonder]
13. Could’ve Struck the Lotto
14. For the Awake (ft. King Mez) [prod. Oh No]
15. For the Sleepers [Reinterpreted by E. Jones]
16. The Definitive Prayer [prod. David Axelrod]
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