See if you can find Bombay the Hard Way : Guns, Cars, and Sitars. Its
instrumental hip-hop whose samples lie in the soundtracks to old 1970's
Indian (Bollywood) films. Its samples are... 'crusty'ish sounding, very
dirty and yet the record has a sense of humor about itself (peep the title
or the names to some of the tracks such as : Punjabis, Pimps, and Playas).
Some of the samples themselves are really silly.. All in all its a very fun,
very mellow record. The Automator threw it together, DJ Shadow did the drums
for some of the tracks.. Its fun stuff. Although someone else recommended
the soundtrack for Ghost Dog (Though methinks they really meant the score,
becuz the soundtrack is a bunch of crappy wu rap, not instrumentals), I
wouldn't recommend that because RZAs beats are pretty clean sounding and not
really gritty per sae, though they are still tight as fuck IMO.
Justin Houde
90.5FM KSJS (2AM-6AMondayMorningsPST..IDM/downtempo/hiphop/ambient/reggae)
Listen Online @ www.ksjs.org
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From: Michael Upton <jetjag@paradise.net.nz>
Subject: Friend seeking some recommendations
Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010620215509.00a450f0@pop3.paradise.net.nz>
A friend of mine is all excited about a certain kind of music that hasn't
been very clearly pigeon-holed, and I've decided to ask around and see if
anyone has some suggestions about what else he might listen to. I think
it's pretty likely someone on here will have some ideas, even if this is
not under the narrow definition of IDM...
Basically, he likes things like Skull, more recent DJ Krush, the Shi-Ra-Nui
originals on that Sub Rosa versus Shi-Ra-Nui album... I'd describe it as
ragged instrumental hip-hop. He uses words like "muddy", "slab-like" and
"willful" when he's getting enthused about it. He definitely enjoys stuff
that is happy to fall out of time and tonality, as well as the use of found
sound as some kind of riff or melody.
Before anyone suggests it, while he's happy with things to be dirty and
crusty sounding, he definitely doesn't seem fond of the kind of aggro or
evil vibe of eg. Techno Animal. But if anyone has any other ideas I'd be
keen to line up a surprise pressy or two for him. : )
thanks,
Michael
np. 'Home Is Where It Hurts' - Hood
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