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> Melody Maker review says DJ Vadim's new album on Ninja Tune ("USSR" something)
> blows away DJ Shadow, as far as inventive hip-hop goes. Anyone care to review
> the album? Is it really comparable to Endtroducing?
>
> DJ Shadow is also dissed elsewhere in the weekly, like how his stuff lacks
> "soul" and other musicians are touted as the "real thing". Critics can be so
> sad sometimes.
I really don't get the British music rag's attitude at all sometimes.
"Endtroducing" is a fine album in a very different way to the DJ Vadim
album "USSR Repertoire".
The DJ Shadow sound seems to me to be different to a lot of stuff lumped
under the hip-hop/trip-hop banner, in that it has a warmth and feel of its
own that a lot of the 'sampler-generated' music (which rely alone on the
original sample to bring atmosphere) hasn't.
The DJ Vadim album is a fantastic, if slightly over-long, listen. DJ Vadim
has struck a rich vein of huge beats which have been a real pain to my
neighbours (I'm sure there must be subliminal 'TURN-IT-UP' messages in it
somewhere). The comparisons to Ligetti and Stockhausen in a hip-hop stylee
are unfounded. It's really just lazy, clever-referencing, journalism.
Vadim himself has groove through and through but as an aural innovator he
makes a great DJ. Buy it though, it's thouroughly worth most anyones money -
or get the single "Aural Prostitution" which clocks in at over 40mins long and
has some fantastic mixes (especially DJ Cam's minimalistic masterpiece and
Andre Gurov's stop-start vocal mix [with that bloke out of Earthling if I'm
not mistaken]).
Also, for similar, check out the Jazz Fudge label's compilation "Organised
Sound" which has DJ Vadim tracks which are mighty fine among some other great
(Justin Broadricks mix of The Palace Brothers for example) and decidedly not
so great tracks.
Rubyjune.
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