Loose, super-chill, but vivacious instrumental hip hop/trip hop from a dude who I first heard as a member of the London Funk Allstars. Nothing I say here will capture the essence of this record better than that album cover, so I'll leave it at that.
Track listing:
1. Intergalactic Throwdown
2. Giant Steps
3. Real Heavy Science
4. Hyperion
5. Nemesis
6. Instamatic
7. Nuts
8. Junkie's Flashback
9. I Was a Teenage B-Boy
10. Mad Molecules
11. A Tribute to Bruce Banner: Gamma Rays/Don't Make Me Angry
12. Supernatural Jazz
13. Zen Gnostics
It's time I got back to the good life
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Is there such a thing as instrumental hip-hop? Hip-hop is not always “rapped” by definition, and if it’s instrumental then it’s... I don’t know... another genre?
ReplyDeleteNice cover, by the way.
I mean, I didn't make it up. DJ Shadow is probably the definitive instrumental hip hop artist -- although he's often also referred to as trip hop. You're not wrong, though. Like, what's the difference between instrumental hip hop and instrumental trip hop? (Answer: there is none.)
DeleteI always thought that trip-hop is trippy (sung or instrumental) and hip-hop is rapped, but who knows
ReplyDeleteThat's the thing, tho -- plenty of hip hop production is hella trippy. And there is instrumental b-boy music that predates trip hop. I'm no expert, tho. Here's a bit from wiki:
Deletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_hop_production#Instrumental_hip_hop
great post dear spirit
Deletedo you have other albums of mad doctor x
It's a philosophical argument. If you omit the defining ingredient of something, can that something even be? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33542392 --PC
ReplyDeleteFor sure. I’d argue that hip hop culture begat hip hop music, which, when it began, was focused on the dj, while the mc was more of a hype man. So imo the mc isn’t necessarily the defining element of hip hop, historically speaking.
DeleteThanks...muy bueno I liked :)
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