You would probably have to sit through J-Dilla's later catalog (Champion Sound, Ruff Draft, Donuts, The Shining, etc), Black Milk's stuff, Waajeed/Platinum Pied Pipers, and outside of Detroit check some Madlib work to get the connection. The release I'm referring to is "When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence". With the exception of one track, I though it was pretty good.
_____ From: Carl Allen [mailto:72t...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 6:44 PM To: logic7 Subject: Re: (313) As I'm sure most of you heard: Real Scenes: Detroit RA Truthfully I didn't think much of the harmonic 313 release, it lacked soul and neither guilty or Ronnie gave it much by my mark, disappointing really and could someone explain to me how it was hip hop orientated? it felt more dubstep/electronic, maybe i just got the wrong release... On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:32 AM, logic7 <log...@cox.net> wrote: Mark Pritchard of ambient group Global Communication fame has a serious love for Detroit hip hop. His Harmonic 313 releases sound like the late, great J-Dilla and Robert Hood got locked in a studio together with Richie Hawtin and Dan Bell sitting in on occasion. Pritchard created an album that sounds so much like Detroit hip hop that Guilty Simpson and frequent Dilla collaborator Steve Spacek sound right at home on the tracks they appeared on. I found out about his stuff from GC's Fabric mix CD (Fabric 26 - Global Communication) where I noticed several Detroit hip hop artists in the mix as well as the Harmonic 313 track "Arc Light". I'll give Pritchard a pass, he does Detroit well.
