Hip Hop / Urban / Indy Hip Hop / Soul / Beatmaker
Excellent, just excellent music and a true masterpiece. Truly deep. The way Orchid Days combines today and tomorrow is very skilled. Truly inspirational, contemporary and visionary sounds for my headphones! Give it a try and listen to this entire lovely piece of work via Bandcamp stream! Ps. Somewhere along the way of listening to this album you’ll find the appreciation of yesterday. Favourite Track: The Stars We’re Made Of.
Grab it. Not much to say here – but let the awesomeness of this tune speak for itself. Ps B kills it at the end!
“When in doubt, just take the next small step.”
This song just came up while i was doing other stuff at home. And first i didn’t pay much attention, but as i realized there is one song playing longer than 3 min, i became curious. Haha, our minds are always in such a rush and the period of time we can focus on something is getting shorter and shorter. It’s so sad, isn’t it? Often I catch myself listening to something and judging it after the first minute. Watching videos mostly bores me so i just skip through…click, click, click…kthanksbye…stupid, but hmmm…
Anyway, this song called ‘Do Better’ by Fatima just made me think about this issue. Because i didn’t really like it the first minute. But listening to the horns, the piano and her beautiful voice made me smile and somewhere at min 3 this song caught me :) Yes, i did it…i gave it a chance after the first minute and it was definitely worth it.
Our good friend Danny posted Fatima and her first released album already a couple of weeks ago at his music blog called bklyn. And i really appreciate the small playlist he made out of this album…so press play and just slow down your mind…it’s Sunday…
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Jurassic 5 always valued quality samples instead of shit replayed synth melodies out of a can. And finally they honor the amazing works of Jack White and the White Stripes. And rightfully so – a good match for music in general at this point in musical history and a great contrast to all that crap thats blowing out all those shit speakers everywhere (whatever happened to those booming speakers?), simply some soulful music. And i remember making a classic YUM YUM remix incorporating the same sample in 2005. Like i said to many of my dj colleagues – that whole YUM YUM Sound and vibe is being reborn right now. Positive music and an overall good vibe – between performers, djs and the audience.
After hearing that new Jurassic 5 tune, this suddenly popped into my mind. I should update it a bit. After hearing it today, i remembered how much i actually liked this song.
Gwen & Pharrel were the bomb. And that whole White Stripes sound and their unique sound aesthetics put that whole thing on another level. Not bigging up my work. It’s almost non-existent, but both songs comliment each other very well and that’s what a good mix is about.
“I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren’t getting it on the radio.”
John Oates
I listened to some “Hip Hop” on the radio yesterday and i actually never ever listen to the radio, not even in the car – and not saying that i don’t like it, but to say it in the immortal words of Chappell’s Prince impersonation “It bores me…”. Whether they are trying to be educational about the latest trends (underground radio) or they are trying to be funny and/or “informative” (main stream radio) it just annoys me that the main focus has been lost and most radio shows/hosts stations are being “secretly” demanding. Somehow along the way radio forgot what it’ about – and that is music. Music with a certain mood, a certain feeling, a certain appeal. Most songs these days are commercials, thats why you hear them in commercials. Why did it get this way? …just follow the money. So when i heard these two kids talk on their show about hip hop and lyrics and the sample culture that has been spread, promoted and made acceptable through Hip Hop, they caught my attention. I was in the mood for exactly what they were talking about and it did sound promising – no matter if new or old. It took them three songs, and i was being patient, for me to turn off the radio. It was everything but what they had talked about, not knocking any of the new stuff – just saying not even the quality tunes of today are getting the spotlight they deserve. And in my mind i remembered a few songs that could have fit that description, so i put them together in this playlist, for you to hear.
These songs are some memorable random picks going down Memory Lane, that i vividly recall spinning. All from the mid 90ies and certainly some masterpieces and classics to match. These song didn’t have the prime time radio, net and tv promo that these new Hip Hop songs have, but somehow they survived the times, just strongly proving their quality and class.
Except the Freestyle Fellowship tune, i still have all these on vinyl as 12″s and i think if you are in the mood for some laid back smooth Hip Hop these are random picks to guarantee you a quality hour of music. There are tons more that i could have chosen, but like i said random picks going through my mental record collection. Enjoy this little trip down memory lane.
