From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Fri, Mar 26th 1999, 15:56
From Andrew Duke Cognition Sent Fri, Mar 26th 1999, 15:56
interesting you brought up badu and jungle:
when the first badu singles came out, i was at a lounge
and the dj was throwing all her acapellas over his
drum n bass mix; he was *really* working them
and it sounded fantastic. andrew :)
Rodney Perkins wrote:
> The new album by The Roots is fantastic and is full of deep grooves, tight
> rhymes and nice melodies. The big, popular track ("You Got Me") on there has
> a jungle outro and the liner notes suggest this was influenced by time spent
> with 4Hero. Also Ursula Rucker gets an 11 minute track, which is too much in
> my opinion. Things are coming full circle this week. Strange...
>
> > krush and the roots. a truly outstanding track, if only more hip hop and
> > jungle could sound like this: nice mid tempo apaches, warm rhodes... and
> > the roots are excellent (how is that new roots album anyway?...)
> >
> > regarding timeless:
> >>> Most underrated electronic album of all time, in my opinion. Maybe it was
> >>> Rob Playford doing the majority of the programming on "Timeless" (the
> >>> track), I just don't care 'cuz it's incredible (especially for 1994-95) and
> >>> completely unequalled since, to my ears. If anyone has objections (with
> >>> examples), I'd love to hear them...literally.
> >>>>
> >>>>You won't hear me disagree. I liked the album (And the track) a lot, and
> >>>>I'm still listening to it once in a while.
> >>>>
> >>>>>> I even like "Sea of Tears" !!
> >>>>
> >>>>'What are you doing here ?' 'I'm ??? the tears.' <- What she's saying ???
> >>
> >>she's saying "i'm washing away the tears"
> >>
> >>what an outstanding track sea of tears is. it and dark metal (12" from 97 or
> >>so) pretty much confirm that goldie and rob playford were the shit together.
> >>
> >>i don't know if timeless is "the most underrated album of all time" but it
> >>has does have its moments of brilliance, like title cut, state of mind and
> >>sea of tears. but let's remember that when it came out, it was far from
> >>underrated -almost everyone (journos, dj's, other producers) was on goldie's
> >>nut. the backlash only started after "mother" came out.
> >>
> >>
> >>RJ
> >
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