AustinArto Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Oh and that Jazzy Jeff record from 2007 was ace: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4KI_gecSE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) Bit of Cube. http://youtu.be/h4UqMyldS7Q http://youtu.be/WBGj19EgCDM I was going to post some stuff from Guru's seminal Jazzmataz album,, particularly 'le bien, le mal' with French rapper MC Solaar, but the songs I wanted appear to have been taken off youtube. Well worth checking out if you can find a copy or stream. Edited March 8, 2017 by Cato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Wishbone Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) http://youtu.be/eF8c3BjFWsw http://youtu.be/7CbFZrWVjDk http://youtu.be/T0BlXy3Roj4 http://youtu.be/yVv4IdGtcNw Edited March 8, 2017 by Johnny Wishbone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland Rock Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 [quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1488944664' post='3253136'] Im a little surprised at some peoples definition of Hip Hop. [/quote] Me too. As much as I Love D'Angelo, he wouldn't be on my list of Hip hop recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='Bastav' timestamp='1488876573' post='3252483'] If you like busta rhymes check out his 90s group Leaders of the new school. Also juggaknots first album is very bass-tastic and one of the rappers has a very unique flow Oh, and Artifacts first album. Great bassy boom-bap [/quote] Liking the Artifacts one, thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='Monkey Steve' timestamp='1488895089' post='3252718'] Give Hilltop Hoods a try - a crew from Australia with a very British sense of humour. Their best albums (IMHO) are, in chronological order: The Hard Road The Hard Road Restrung (rather than re-mixing the album the hired an orchestra - classical hip hop: genius! and makes Metallica's orchestral effort look rubbish) State Of The Art (my personal favourite - check out Chris Farley, Parade Of The Dead and Fifty In Five) Drinking From The Sun a lot of good music, including a lot of double bass. Gone off the boil on their last one - far more bland R&B arrangements which is a bit dull [/quote] nice, some really cool stuff there! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='crompers' timestamp='1488898578' post='3252753'] Jurassic 5 have some great bass lines [/quote] oh yeah, I had found these earlier but forgot about them, good call! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1488929391' post='3253088'] Also for more bonkers stuff have a look at Dr.Octagon (alias for Kool Keith) and Handsome Boy Modelling School (kool Keith's producer Dan the Automator) [/quote] cool, I found a couple of really good tracks from Dr Octagon already, must check him out more... thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='bubinga5' timestamp='1488944664' post='3253136'] Im a little surprised at some peoples definition of Hip Hop. Some great stuff though. This is killer.. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8W6_grAI0Q[/media] [/quote] oh yes, funky! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1488984706' post='3253496'] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegK4YXKWzw[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95-Sdq2EKrg[/media] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQQGX24Teg[/media] [/quote] nice one, cool bass lines too... but... the last one... THAT bassline is something *I* was doing to one of my band's new songs... almost exactly! All I can think is that bassline must have been in my brain from hearing it at some point in the past and I believed it was my idea... damn.... that's annoying Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 That 2-Pac dude had a lot of good stuff... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1489075540' post='3254209'] That 2-Pac dude had a lot of good stuff... [/quote] Golden age of Death Row records, when they had all the best producers/creators in the genre making tracks for their artists. Speaking of which. http://youtu.be/1plPyJdXKIY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conan Posted March 10, 2017 Share Posted March 10, 2017 (edited) [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1489068251' post='3254130']nice one, cool bass lines too... [/quote] The first one, Kurtis Blow, is probably more Go-go than hip-hop. In fact the backing band (at least in the video) is the mighty Troublefunk Edited March 10, 2017 by Conan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 10, 2017 Author Share Posted March 10, 2017 [quote name='Conan' timestamp='1489141280' post='3254653'] The first one, Kurtis Blow, is probably more Go-go than hip-hop. In fact the backing band (at least in the video) is the mighty Troublefunk [/quote] That explains a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Missed this thread before... I wouldn't class myself as a huge hip-hop fan but the good stuff is absolutely immense. Classic records worth checking out: Nas - Illmatic* Gang Starr - Moment of Truth* Talib Kweli - Reflection Eternal* Dan Le Sac / Scroobius Pip - Angles* Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Dr Dre - The Chronic Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full* De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising* A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm* Mos Def - Black On Both Sides NWA - Straight Outta Compton* The ones with *s should be in every record collection IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrunoBass Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 [quote name='Barking Spiders' timestamp='1488877768' post='3252499'] Then there's yer instrumental hip hop, topped by DJ Shadow. Entroducing is a modern classic. [url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTE-Eyx18A"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTE-Eyx18A[/url] [/quote] No argument with that. It still sounds fresh now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) Entroducing is magical. Edited March 29, 2017 by uncle psychosis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Wishbone Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Award for best hip-hop track with lowest budget video goes to: http://youtu.be/rzAH4qZgyw0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ben4343 Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Mentioned once already, but I am really enjoying Run the Jewels' most recent album. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcnach Posted March 29, 2017 Author Share Posted March 29, 2017 [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1490785885' post='3267926'] Missed this thread before... I wouldn't class myself as a huge hip-hop fan but the good stuff is absolutely immense. Classic records worth checking out: Nas - Illmatic* Gang Starr - Moment of Truth* Talib Kweli - Reflection Eternal* Dan Le Sac / Scroobius Pip - Angles* Cypress Hill - Black Sunday Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle Dr Dre - The Chronic Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full* De La Soul - Three Feet High And Rising* A Tribe Called Quest - People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm* Mos Def - Black On Both Sides NWA - Straight Outta Compton* The ones with *s should be in every record collection IMO. [/quote] Fantastic!!! I already have listened to a few of those but there's some there I never even heard of, thanks! Spotify session coming soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 [quote name='mcnach' timestamp='1490801132' post='3268171'] Fantastic!!! I already have listened to a few of those but there's some there I never even heard of, thanks! Spotify session coming soon [/quote] Cool, enjoy. Some of those are a bit much for me (the full on gangsta stuff is a bit out of my comfort zone) but the majority of those would appear in most "best of the genre" lists which is why I suggested them. My personal favourite out of that lot is probably the Gang Starr stuff. The MC is a guy called Guru who also released a record called Jazzmatazz which I think you'd like - it's basically a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cato Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 (edited) [quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1490805757' post='3268219'] Cool, enjoy. Some of those are a bit much for me (the full on gangsta stuff is a bit out of my comfort zone) but the majority of those would appear in most "best of the genre" lists which is why I suggested them. My personal favourite out of that lot is probably the Gang Starr stuff. The MC is a guy called Guru who also released a record called Jazzmatazz which I think you'd like - it's basically a live jazz band with hip hop production and rapping. [/quote] I tried to post some stuff from the seminal first Jazzmatazz album but it's one of those that seems to have been blocked from Youtube. Some of the later volumes are still available on there, but IMO they don't quite have the impact of the first. Edited March 29, 2017 by Cato Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle psychosis Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 [quote name='Cato' timestamp='1490805965' post='3268223'] I tried to post some stuff from the seminal first Jazzmatazz album but it's one of those that seems to have been blocked from Youtube. Some of the later volumes are still available on there, but IMO they don't quite have the impact of the first. [/quote] I'd agree with that - Vol. 1 is by far the best. Despite liking hip-hop one of the criticisms I'd have of it as a genre is that the number of artists who have consistently produced lots of great stuff is really small - for me it's at its best when the artists are doing something new, which is why Guru revisiting jazzmatazz a few times didn't really work for me. That said, Guru is responsible for a lot of other classics so maybe he's proving me wrong anyway :-D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dapper Bandit Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 There are a few albums that I would have to heartily second; Public Enemy, Dr. Octagon, DJ Shadow (and also Avalanches as far as the plunder-phonic instrumental thing goes) Dr. Dre and Ice Cube. I cannot stress the importance of Wu Tang Clans 36 Chambers though. There is a reason that album took them from nothing to corporation-level big! Also the first batch of solo albums from GZA, Method Man and Raekwon and Ol' Dirty Bastard's two solo albums. At the time pretty unique production values that gave a unifying aesthetic and created a clan. Slightly odder picks for me would be: cLOUDDEAD Dâlek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dapper Bandit Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Just remembered, for the Netflix users amongst us there is a 4 part documentary on the history of hip hop from the very beginning up to the G-Funk explosion that is well worth your time. Covers the early big names and the guys that didn't break through so you get a taste of a diverse bunch of artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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