on the phat kat front - check Phat Kat aka Ronnie Cash - Dedication
To The Suckers on House Shoes - another Jay Dee prod, heavy! Also has
a handy Detroit Road Map on the cover...
Other synthy hip hop:
Def Harmonic on Altered Vibes, some very technoey synth moments on
their stuff - deeply pleasing, the track 'Doing The Best I Can' is
great, though some of their other tracks are marred by weak MCing in
places. Altered Vibes is part of the Goya stable as far as I know,
but these people sound American, anyone know where they're from?
Blockhead also deserve an honourable mention in this category. Anyone
else heard the new Pete Rock import on Up Above? - b-side is lurvely.
P.S. Before anyone asks, Pete Rock is Richie Hawtin's evil twin,
Blockhead is the secret UK downtempo project of Eddie Fowlkes and Def
Harmonic use old transmat CDs as beer coasters, so ner!
At 01:49 pm +0000 10/3/04, jurren baars wrote:
thanks ken for the info, i'll keep my eyes out for those releases.
two things i've heard recently [both 313 related] are the
lacksydaisycal album, which was nice, reminding a bit of common on
one or two songs, and jaydee has a hand in it aswell. some very nice
tunes, but not the best hiphop album ever. worth to check if you
like sv, j-dilla, common.
another one is the jimmy edgar 12" on warp, as it was mentioned on
littledetroit. after reading the description on the site, i had high
hopes, but to my ears only the third track came close to achieving
some of the praise it had been given. should probably listen to it
once more.
also saw a jaydee produced phat kat release on house shoe records
(?) from detroit on the rushhour mailout. if i'm not mistaken this
is the last track that was on the 2000demf mix by dego that used to
be up on groovetech. anyone know more about phat kat/house shoe?
i've got a remix by dwele that also features phat kat, so i assume
he's done loads of things allready, anything i should keep an eye
out for?
http://www.bling47.com for more detroit hiphop.
jurren
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