From Chester Blaze Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 18:26
From Chester Blaze Sent Mon, Mar 8th 1999, 18:26
I can't believe this review - this album is the shit. smooth mellow grooves that just send you into orbit! I think the album is a wonderfull success and i have never heard anything but rave reviews from people i have played it for. plus, they did the tightest remix of a marley song that could be done. check it out. peace. cb ---------- >From: xxx-xxxxxx-xxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx (idm-digest) >To: xxx-xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx >Subject: idm-digest V2 #564 >Date: Sun, Mar 7, 1999, 11:08 PM > > >DJ Krush/Toshinori Kondo - Ki-Oku (Instinct) >4/10 > >An interesting experiment that should have been phenomenal but is instead >merely OK - DJ Krush, producer of some of my favorite hiphop records, >teams up with this here Kondo feller, a man who apparently likes his >trumpet and his effects boxes and (very) free music (the press release >says he's played with Derek Bailey and John Zorn, just to name a >couple)... For whatever reason, instead of making a completely mad hiphop >record, these boys decided to make an extremely laidback chillout type of >record that has neither the wacky funk of Krush's "Turntablized" nor the >rock solid grooves of his "Milight" nor much experimentalism beyond a >whole lot of echo/reverb on the trumpet... the grooves are decent >(sometimes), the trumpet playing veers dangerously close to pure jazz wank >(and not in a good way at all), the sounds are all very smooooooothed out >and unoffensive with very little "oomph" behind the bass or drums, and >then all this gets smeared around in a dubby wash of effects that's pretty >cool but can't save the uninspired music. Two of the songs are very reggae >influenced, but only one (the "cover" of Bob Marley's "Sun is Shining") >does anything interesting along those lines... Perhaps I'm being >overcritical, but it just isn't as good as I think these guys are >capable of, even for this type of record.