OH NO VS. ONENESS OF JUJU Stones Throw Podcast 34An original, exclusive album produced entirely by Oh No with music from Oneness of Juju. http://www.stonesthrow.com/jukebox/
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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2. Carving
3. Wawa
4. Carving Again
5. A Call to Arms
6. Time Iz Now
7. Twoness of Juju
8. Ooo Ow
9. Keys
10. Following
11. Funk U Very Much
12. Harmony
13. Something in the Air
14. Morning Alarm
15. Santesana
16. Get Up
17. Wap
18. Juju March
19. Funkier than Wood
20. All Ahhs on Me
21. Giiiiive
22. African Chant
23. Onnon
24. River Rhythm
25. Bogged Down
Artwork by Stephen Serrato