― Momus, Wednesday, 25 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Josh, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 26 April 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― ethan, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Sterling Clover, Saturday, 19 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago) link
― Daniel Keith, Thursday, 1 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― olly 360, Saturday, 9 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Now my buddy, don't you know that drive me nutty, Not too skinny and not too chubby, soft like silly putty...
― Joe, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Ian, Sunday, 10 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Nitsuh, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 11 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Yes, it's fantastic (it's called "Flyin' High in the Brooklyn Sky") -- I've never heard anything quite like it. The DPs second album, Blowout Comb, always sounded a little like the hip-hop version of Bitches Brew to me, if that makes sense. But "Flyin' High" points to something totally different...it sounds almost cinematic to me, full of flashing lights and jump-cuts, with a groove that sounds (to me) like the best of all possible blaxploitation soundtracks. And then you add Lester Bowie and Wah Wah Watson to that...! I wish we'd gotten a third album out of them -- if it was anything like this track, it'd be an instant classic.
― Phil (phil), Monday, 21 October 2002 21:19 (twenty-one years ago) link
That being said, I think the Jungle Brothers' wrongly ignored and vastly underrated "J Beez Wit the Remedy" singlehandedly puts them above De La and Tribe both. That record is AMAZING - dense, varied, alternately sobering and funny, thick, sonic headfuckery, nothin like it before, lots of things like it since (Anti-Pop Consortium, for example).
Blow Out Comb is also rightly praised in this thread. Fantastic, overlooked record. Just listened to it the other day - the logical extension of "Low End Theory", only yes more cinematic (maybe that's the "Shaft" orchestral breaks), broader in scope.
― Shakey Mo Collier, Monday, 21 October 2002 23:53 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 22 October 2002 06:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4pwKKJ5TJU
― calstars, Wednesday, 23 August 2017 00:57 (seven years ago) link