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sludgepuddleofdoom posted:I liked Method Man's Tical. I liked all of the tracks but my favorite are easily Tical, Bring the Pain, and PLO Style Any recommendations? Does not have to be Wu-Tang. Maybe check out DJ Do Wops 95 live mixtapes? Get a little run through of the rappers poppin off around that time period and pick the ones you like.
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Jive One posted:I'm looking for some more explicitly-political soul music along the same lines as Gil Scott-Heron(who is amazing and I can't believe I hadn't heard of him before) and Bobby Womack, or some political electro or older hip-hop such as The Message. Basically any artist that frequently discussed the problems that were present in American cities during the 70's and 80's. There is tons of this stuff, most of the black artists of the late 60s and early 70s have at least a few songs dealing with these themes. A few albums that deal primarily with this sort of stuff: several of curtis mayfield's solo albums and albums with the impressions donny hathaway - live marvin gaye - whats going on Also you can skim through the "rare grooves" thread in phiz to find a bunch of songs with these themes. e- and no need to limited yourself to the united states- see also fela kuti and others all over the world plogo fucked around with this message at 00:10 on Feb 16, 2009 |
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Tripplejol posted:Can anyone recommend any good solid funk? For 80s stuff, you this thread could help... http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3098961 For earlier stuff, some solid well know stuff would be james brown, first couple kool & the gang albums, and the meters. If you want some less common stuff there are many compilations of funk 45s. Brainfreeze breaks is mixed by Cut Chemist and DJ Shadow or if you want just a bunch of songs you can check out some of the comps made by Keb Darge. For later stuff, boogie-funk is making something of a resurgence, you can check out Dam Funk or U-Turn's podcasts.
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Foiltha posted:I've been listening to a lot Erykah Badu lately and gently caress, I've been seriously missing out all these years. She has an absolutely amazing voice, not to mention catchy melodies and funky basslines. The thing is, is there anything else like Erykah out there? The closest thing I can think of is Joi, Pendulum Vibe. Mainly for the song "freedom."
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tv iv is nerds posted:
I think of Lords of the Underground more for their singles than for their albums, so maybe you should search for some early 90s mixtapes or podcasts. You can check out the rub's history of hip hop podcasts at http://brooklynradio.net/the-rub.
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Ewar Woowar posted:Hello again recommendation thread. Check out the compilation Chains and Black Exhaust.
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Halfsharkalligator posted:Anybody know good websites or starting points for Chicago house http://www.deephousepage.com This site has a bunch of old mixes, if you want to hear the tracks in the context of a mix.
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Radio du Cambodge posted:I've been listening to hip hop from Detroit recently, mainly off youtube. Fairly recent stuff like J Dilla and Black Milk and such, and I want to get a little smorgasbord of that scene. Anyone know of compilations or a few key albums? Thanks. http://www.michiganhiphop.com is a good source for mixes and new tracks. You might want to check out the dirty district series of mixtapes, as they showcase a lot of mcs, but all the tracks are produced by young rj and black milk I think. There are a host of talented producers like karrim riggins, nick speed, mr. porter etc.. that are also worth checking out. I guess as far as the scene that gets exposure nowadays, dilla, proof, and dj house shoes are some of the most important founding figures, but there have been rap releases in detroit at least since 1990 if you feel like listening to random 12"s on youtube or something.
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Strut and Soundway have both released a bunch of good comps, academy is rereleasing a bunch of rare african lps, pitchfork made a list of 100 tunes etc etc... Also check out the blogs http://analogafrica.blogspot.com/ and http://voodoofunk.blogspot.com/ . Voodoo funk has the deepest and best cuts but its all in mixed form. If you just want one comp or something I'd probably recommend the strut compilation nigeria 70. Also Kon and Amir's off track and kings of diggin compilations have a few african joints that I'd never heard elsewhere. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odg9-4QAe1g I'm not as familiar with latin funk, but I have the compilation fania released relatively recently (last year?) I get kinda bored by most deep funk compilations and this was more or less the case with the fania comp, but if you're totally clueless that's a starting point.
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slowdave posted:If anyone knows anything about 60s Cambodian music please enlighten me I guess this is kinda obvious, but check out the Cambodian Rocks compilations.
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Kara Thrace posted:Does anyone have any suggestions for some bashment/dancehall/funkyhouse music? I'm guessing not many goons listen to those types of music, but you never know. A lot do actually! Here's a thread in ew about rinse.fm http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3167581 A catch all thread about Jamaican music http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2944374 As for recs, if you enjoy the 90s dancehall sound I suggest you track down some mixtapes from 90s dancehall mixtape djs such as precise, selectah bam bam, bobby konders etc. A lot of hip hop / dancehall blends etc. big duck equals goose posted:I have became a huge fan of the World Famous Beat Junkies stuff, but I am kind of new to hip-hop. Loving stuff like The artifacts are one of my all time favorite groups, so I would definitely recommend their two albums (also try to track down the 12"s which have remixes.) If you like the beat junkies try to seek out their mixes from the individual djs, they have all done many mixes. Here's jrocc's blog as a starting point http://stoneyjackson.blogspot.com As for hip hop advice in general, if you google "top rap albums of all time" or whatever you should be able to find a few canonical lists easily enough. I feel that going beyond albums and listening to old/new radio shows, 12"s, mixtapes, different regional styles etc, is a lot of fun and gives new context to a lot of the music.
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I like Roy Ayers a lot. Roy Ayers - The Memory http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KQt2kl1KzI Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together - rare groove hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F019iQmwbj8 Roy Ayers - Running Away - disco hit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUuCV865Nvw Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti - 2000 Black - Collaboration with Fela Kuti http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNWM98Eko0 If you find that listening to jazz soul/funk or whatever threatens your masculinity you can listen to some of endless rap songs that have sampled him- e rule - listen up http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ah1aHaPHfcM pete rock & cl smooth - searchin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcVog696j2w
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gay til death posted:I know the classics fairly well, so I guess I was looking for the more obscure cuts. And I got no problem with disco at all, but same with funk, I dig the synthier Hi-NRG and Italo sounds. Well if u want some more obscure synth heavy 80s funk just type in an obscure cut in youtube and you can browse that users vids to your hearts content. A few noteworthy compilations if thats too much of a bother: http://www.discogs.com/Various-Peoples-Potential-Family-Album/release/2081839 store associated with the label: http://earcave.mybisi.com/ http://www.discogs.com/Various-Jerome-Derrajdi-Presents-The-American-Boogie-Down/release/1506925 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Supafunkanova-Badass-Funk-Classics-From-The-Disco-Boogie-Era/release/1675065 http://www.discogs.com/Various-Destination-Boogie/release/655337?ev=rr Also you can check out the various mixes dam funk has released over the past few years. I only have a vague idea in my head what the exact aesthetic you are looking for but here are a few of my personal faves of the early 80s obscure funk era. Certainty not obscure amongst collectors/the internet fanbase, but physically rare. pyramid plus-comin at ya http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzUE6DkUa7U Maxx Traxx - Don't Touch It! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrDuorbQgHA JUNEI - LET'S RIDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKK8vKM3rls Carmen - Time To Move http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq5mnGAP2s4 Starshine - All I Need Is You http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7nTqnGlU3Y Mid Air - Ease Out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKfhrcr8SL4 Anyways, this is just a small sampling of what is out there, but hopefully provides a useful starting point.
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LoadedDice34 posted:Oh. My. loving. God. You could not have recommended a better album than that Lee Perry and Mad Professor one. It is EXACTLY what I was looking for, and I am being caressed by its bassey goodness as I post this. There is a jungle thread in ew http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3344455
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Get lagos disco inferno for that real poo poo or actually i think maybe amir's mix on kon & amir off track 3 has the better disco sampling
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Xovaan posted:Oh man. I think I'm addicted to funk. You would probably enjoy these mixes http://soundcloud.com/sweaterfunk
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To add on to that, here are a few thoughts I posted about a different request for deep house. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3238075&pagenumber=113&perpage=40#post391526639 I would also add Larry Heard (aka mr. fingers and others) to ras hai's list if you are interested in a historical standpoint as he is often consider the father of deep house. In my own estimation that simplification is just as harmful as helpful, but it's a notable idea to consider.
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Fried Watermelon posted:Can anyone recommend me some rap groups that have the same style / sound as CunninLynguists? I am just starting to get into rap / hip hop and the style of their 2011 album specifically is something I really enjoy. I guess what makes cunninlyguists kinda interesting is that they are a southern group operating in the east coast underground tradition. there are number of other groups that have that similar backgrounds and philosophies. for example, you could compare kno to say 9th wonder or the are or khyrsis or s1 etc. since that is dating myself a little bit, you might look to big krit or freddie gibbs (although not a southerner) as examples today. and i guess more traditional southern influences are also worth checking out so at the least goodie mobb and outkast. However, if you are just getting into hip hop i would listen to the east coast roots in the native tongues and such as ultimately only east coast rap is what matters. plogo fucked around with this message at 06:42 on Aug 3, 2011 |
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Roy Ayers is one of my favorite musicians, and just in case you haven't heard it, here is one of his songs that is often overlooked stateside (i think in the uk it's something of an underground club classic) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPNWM98Eko0 As for stuff like Roy Ayers, if you don't mind listening to mixes without tracklists or separated tracks, I highly recommend roctakon's good life mix http://knyew.blogspot.com/2009/03/mixtape-mondays-dj-roctakon.html Here are a few other songs that I feel you might like in the 70s rnb vein. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48CWDlNlYfY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fY9fLHwZ-1U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwRp3CkJpGc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNuCYzqiuBk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dmX2uhQrZs Another useful resource would be the mastercuts jazz funk series, as those songs were played contemporaneously with roy ayers classics like everyone loves the sunshine and runnin' in uk clubs during the 70s and 80s. http://www.discogs.com/Various-Classic-Jazz-Funk-Mastercuts-Volume-1/release/388697 If you like hip hop Roy Ayers was constantly sampled in the 90s (and still to this day to a lesser extent) by the likes of Pete Rock and other east coast producers. If you go to the-breaks.com you can find out many of the songs that have sampled Roy Ayers. For example check out this mix http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/07/dj-d-madness-folks-get-brown-in-the-sunshine-mix
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If you want a more general overview of hip hop, the rub's history of hip hop series can't be beat http://www.itstherub.com/?cat=15
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Da Monk posted:I would love to find some more albums with Jazz-Funk (I think this is the genre). Until now I have listened to some compilations named Pulp Fusion, and heard songs like these: You should check out kon and amir's off track compilations.
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I'd advise browsing the catalogs of numero group, bbe, and soul jazz to see if there is anything that interests you. For a specific recommendation I'm a tremendous fan of Kon and Amir, so I would recommend their Off Track series of compilations. If you want a compilation that has a lot of importance historically for dance music you might want to check out the various mastercuts and street sounds compilations http://www.discogs.com/label/Mastercuts http://www.discogs.com/label/Street+Sounds which help define the cannon for the 80s/90s generation of djs in the uk (although this influence shouldn't be overstated.)
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hogswallower posted:Looking for some soul. The more obscure the better. I love stuff like Solomon Burke, Otis Redding, James Carr and I've been listening to a ton of Lee Moses lately. Anything more specifically like Moses who seems to kind of bridge the gap between more traditional soul (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttSipBl-QRs) and straight up psychedelic funk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL04E1APQnY) would be really great. Give me some names or some compilations! Well, there is pretty much an unlimited supply of soul. I have an affinity for the more late 60s/ early 70s styles of soul so here are a few examples of obscure material from that time period http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Gmowjmktg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXIONl1w97Y If you enjoy that sort of thing you might also like the soul boulders mixes from matthew africa and b.cause http://blog.djmatthewafrica.com/2011/11/soul-boulders-2.html Bear in mind that soul was very much a singles driven genre so make sure you listen to lots of singles rather that only albums. Paying tribute to this idea is Mayer Hawthorne's mix from a couple years ago http://www.discogs.com/Mayer-Hawthorne-Soul-With-A-Hole-Vol-1/release/2051677. If you want to go further into that sort of nerdery you can also check out the releases on the eccentric soul series from numero group. Another route to go for obscure stuff is to learn about the northern soul scene in england whose djs imported all sorts of rare records from america in the 60s for amphetamine addled miners to dance to. These are a zillion compilations full of "northern soul" classics if you find you enjoy that sort of thing. Here's my favorite northern soul classic which is probably familiar to you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSehtaY6k1U
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Well for 80s electro, the street sounds compilation series was essential to defining the sound in the UK during the 80s http://www.discogs.com/label/Street%20Sounds In general though, I enjoy compilations from soul jazz, strut, bbe and numero group. If you browse through their catalogs I'm sure you will find some interesting stuff.
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thathonkey posted:I was going to post this in the Daft Punk thread but it is moving too fast and would be slightly off-topic so I decided to take it here. Lots of people there are discussing all the other artists making great house/edm/whatever (sorry I'm not great with these genres) that either didn't make it or that Daft Punk owes a lot of their sound to. Actually some are straight up complaining that Daft Punk fans never bothered to explore these similar styles etc etc. Well I would like to do just that. So could somebody recommend some 'essentials' that might have paved the way for (or are contemporaries of) Homework and Discovery (my favorite two DP albums, like many other people)? Well both Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo had their own labels in the late 90s early 2000s, so if you want more stuff that sounds like early daft punk you might enjoy some of their 12"s. http://www.discogs.com/label/Roul%E9 http://www.discogs.com/label/Crydamoure There are also two mixes that are good for the house side of their influences: The Daft Punk essential mix from 1997 showcases some of the early-mid 90's disco influenced house tracks that they drew inspiration from https://soundcloud.com/edmtunestv/daft-punk-bbc-radio-1-essential-mix-02-03-1997 . A lot of the tracks on that mix are still relatively popular in clubs today like "Gabrielle" and "Disco's Revenge" and some like the track from Kenny Dixon Jr's label KDJ have cult followings. Then "CK" has made a mix of 88 tracks that he feels were influences on daft punk. This mix has a lot of harder sounding house from dancemania and associated labels, which are also the roots of the phiz favorite genre juke/footwork. Here's a write up for the initial 44 track version for some context to the mix. http://www.bodytonicmusic.com/podcasts/2011/dec/07/bodytonic-podcast-teachers-house-music-1989-1997/ Here's the new 88 track version: https://soundcloud.com/ck303/theprequel96 Of course in addition to the various house influences, discovery is an album of samples so you might want to check out some of the material they sampled. For a quick selection you might wanna check out http://www.discogs.com/Various-Discovered-A-Collection-Of-Daft-Funk-Samples/release/1137568 Or if you want a taste of the disco scene as experienced in clubs, that eventually transformed into the house scene, you can listen to some live mixes from Larry Levan, Frankie Knuckles, or Ron Hardy. Latter era Ron Hardy mixes are cool because they exhibit some interesting edits of disco songs that are kinda precursors to the disco house that emerged in the 90's in Chicago and elsewhere. http://www.gridface.com/features/ron_hardy_playlists.html If you feel the need to learn more about the house sound of Chicago, of which Frankie and Ron Hardy were pioneers you can check out this gigantic box set. http://www.discogs.com/Various-The-History-Of-The-House-Sound-Of-Chicago/release/43501 And here's a live set from Larry Levan of the Paradise Garage, the most influential disco dj in NY during the 80's. The "garage" in UK Garage is derived from the Paradise Garage although in a kinda circuitous manner. https://soundcloud.com/mihaidl/larry-levan-paradise-garage-1979. You also might wanna track down the works of some of the collaborators for Random Access Memory. You are probably familiar with a lot of his songs, but there was a really good Nile Rogers compilation released a few years ago that has some lesser known/unreleased/remixed tracks from Chic and Sister Sledge and company. http://www.discogs.com/Nile-Rodgers-presents-Chic-Organization-The-Box-Set-Vol-1-Savoir-Faire/release/2501209. The remixes on this compilation are done by Dimitri From Paris, who was also a major influence on Daft Punk by virtue of being the biggest and earliest house radio dj in France. You can check out his disco compilations which are really good (he began djing in the disco era,) or if you want you can hear some of his old radio shows here: http://www.mixesdb.com/w/Category:NRJ_Megamix Another collaborator, Todd Edwards, is doing this weeks essential mix for the bbc so if you wait a few days you can check that out. He's a producer known for his chopped up vocals who didn't get much attention in the US, but became quite popular overseas and has recently had a resurgence in popularity. His stuff is very influential in UK Garage if you care to listen to that sort of stuff. A third collaborator, giorgio moroder, I think most people are familiar with. Since you post in the hip hop thread you've probably heard "the shining" in which case you probably recognize this sample, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpi-Kxf2eXg. However, Giorgio Moroder is also emblematic of italo disco, and if you want get a bigger picture of the italo sound, you should definitely check out the two "mixed up in the hague" mixes from I-F. Here's an untracked version you can stream of the first volume. http://www.mixcloud.com/intergalacticfm/i-f-mixed-up-in-the-hague-vol1/ This all might be a bit overwhelming, but I thought it might be useful for other posters in the thread as well. plogo fucked around with this message at 06:52 on May 15, 2013 |
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midnightclimax posted:Is there a thread about online radio-stations/streams? I'm specifically looking for ones featuring electronic music, maybe one for dubstep, one a bit more experimental. And one for Techno. Check out red bull music academy radio.
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