On the subject of Massive Attack, another stunner from Blue Lines in honor of today’s Thanksgiving. The whole album should be mandatory listening for anyone wishing to be a part of the human race. One of the best albums of all time for me.
Diggin’ the scene with a gangster lean.. From Discogs
Probably the best, certainly the most important , album of the decade, Blue Lines defined the sound of Britain´s carcass after Thatcher had finished with it. Blue Lines was the first representation of a certain kind of syncretic Britishness that would define the island´s music for the next decade.
Taken from 1991 LP “Blue Lines” on Wild Bunch Records -
Cant really sum up in words this track, best to just listen. I strongly believe that this may be the greatest, most beautiful peace of music on earth. Shara Nelson’s vocals, the break, the strings, the piano…at least in the top 5. Got my first copy from Mr Warom around 1993 and it’s still in my walkman. I love it so much I use a loop as my ring tone
Infamous British duo who met in the 1980’s in Manchester. Their very influential discography shows off influences spanning acid house, hardcore techno, ambient, krautrock, 60’s psychedelica, and more. Previously Dougans, as Humanoid, had a UK Top 10 hit with Staker Humanoid. Together as FSOL, they scored a major crossover success with Papua New Guinea. Their first full-length Accelerator charted their dancefloor-friendly early career, after which FSOL moved into deeper, more album-oriented word. Lifeforms was a double-disc set spanning long stretches of breakbeat-flavored ambience. It was followed by Dead Cities which added hip-hop, trip-hop, industrial textures, and bleak urban imagery into their mix of influences. Their ISDN album compiled music from their ISDN-uplinked radio broadcasts from the mid-1990’s. After Dead Cities came out in 1996, they dropped off the radar. After a long hiatus in which they were surrounded by rumors of insanity and drug addiction, the Papua New Guinea Translations concept remix album came out, followed by the full-length The Isness and more material under the Amorphous Androgynous name.
After that last post I had to put this one up, such a great track. I also love this vocal version that I first picked up on a compilation called “wasted” back in 1991. Perfect for those wasted moments!
Ive ragged on Orbital once this week, yet I forgot all about Belfast. Its THE comedown song. The only piece of electronica bestowed with the ability to put your head back together after a beast of a night.
The LP version offers more time to recover.
An absolute legend of a track, for me. Simple genius. It is alleged that the idea for the song came about after a very late night cab journey through Belfast. Having had night similar to that through London, I can believe it.
Return to the 21st century? Have some of this fucker. Its a distinguisher out of the glud of pseudo-darkness hardcore DnB tunes (Quick tip, rewind on the Amen, its the best break out there, not the Pendulum break from Tarantula). Its all about that stomping bass hit really – fast, bangin, angry enough. The only way DnB should be going these days with Bukem nowhere to be seen..
Taken from the State of Mind album, Faster Than Light
For me the best track on Fantazia’s First Taste album. Its got it all, rocking breaks, massive synths and a piano/ vocal break thats out of this world.
Delara just clocked me rocking out to it and told me im due to join the 21st century (she even did a nice running man for effect). If there was ever a track that would make me not want too. This would be it.
Brooklyn, NYC-based rapper of Trinidadian descent, Dante “Beze” Terrell Smith –better known simply as Mos Def– is also making quite a career as a Hollywood actor.
He first made noise as part of the group Urban Thermo Dynamics with his younger brother DCQ and sister Ces. Has since worked with many respected artists from many different genres, notibly with Talib Kweli together as Black Star.
Jurassic 5 came together from two separate crews, the Rebels of Rhythm and Unity Committee. The group formed at the Los Angeless, California health store the Good Life Cafee, where they performed at the open mic nights along with Good Life regulars such as Freestyle Fellowship,Abstract Rude and many others. According to Cut Chemist, “The Lp was a renaissance period in hip hop.”
5 signed to Interscope Records who re-released the Jurassic 5 EP. This was followed by their second album (their first on a major label), Quality Control
Taken from 1990 A side from “Afterlife” 12 inch on Warehouse records,
from discogs -
The epitome of less being more, the constituent elements of this track are few but Master Trent works each part continuously to produce one of the most perfect and moving tracks it has ever been my honour to hear. The two b-side tracks are also very beautiful but bow to the supremacy of the title track.
