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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Herbie Hancock - Calypso
Groooveman Spot - the bow feat. Capitol A
Nebraska - Plasticene
Discreet Unit - Written In Our Nature
Erykah Badu - Soldier
3 Na Massa - Lágrimas Pretas
Grooveman Spot - neuralgia
Fudge Fingas - Ghost House
Samon Kawamura - Night Will Fall
Michna - Italian Visitor
Disrupt - selassi i continually
Ill Suono - Madness
Madlib - Heat
Damu - Fudgemunk Instro
Gagle - kawaurabashi
Mr Scruff - Kalimba
Damu - Colorful Storms
Super Smoky Soul - Untitled
cro-magnon- flower (feat. coma-chi)
The Popular Peoples Front - I Don't Know
Lukid - The Now (Hudson Mohawke remix)
Hudson Mo - Still On It
Aardvarck - Gag
The Popular Peoples Front - Show Time
The Popular Peoples Front - Stop On By (leozero edit)
De Javaanse Jongens - Coco Indonesia
Bryard Lancaster - Just Test
Disrupt - Bit Defender
Mike Slott - My light bridge