JAMES, Jose - Blackeyedsusan (Brownswood UK) Comentários: West London's IG CULTURE reworks this song from jazz vocalist JOSE JAMES into a killer 4 to the floor dance cut. House beats with a mix of electro carnival and broken beat influences. Funky as all get out. The flip, "IG's BRUK 4 LOVE REMIX", is a straight up broken beat cut. Limited white 12". in groovedis [Para Ouvir/Samples1] [2]
ONRA - Chinoiseries (Label Rouge) Comentários: Brilliantly odd instrumental hip hop album here from Onra, compiled and constructed around vintage Vietnamese pop records picked up in flea markets on a trip to the far east. 32 short tracks make up "Chinoiseries", each of them clocking in at the 1 or 2 minute mark and delivering a tight selection of beats that somehow bring to mind J Dilla, Rza, Madlib, Moondog, MF Doom and the Sublime Frequencies label rolled into one beautifully incoherent package. Having a ravenous appetite for the "Radio Transmission" style beloved of the aforementioned Sublime Frequencies crew, we might be perfectly primed for this sort of thing, but while the dusty exotica, folk and plastic pop of the source material here could so easily have ended up sounding like the sterile plunderphonic coffee table beats that typified so much instrumental hip hop in the late 90's, Onra manages to harness the mystifying magic of the original material and
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