tony seltzer seems relevant here, although hard to keep up with
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYF4kg9L9jI
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 15 December 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
Signor Benedick The Moor - El Negro (2013) is a colossal masterpiece by a then-20 genius kid that's never been mentioned once on ILX
https://sbthemoor.bandcamp.com/album/el-negro
This is on so many levels the real deal, and also genuinely one of the most genre-diverse albums I've ever heard. I am expecting listens and feedback
― imago, Sunday, 11 April 2021 20:04 (three years ago) link
bump for truth
― imago, Monday, 12 April 2021 10:47 (three years ago) link
What does ILM make of Cities Aviv?
https://citiesaviv.bandcamp.com/album/the-crashing-sound-of-how-it-goes
I haven't heard it yet but it sounds intriguing on paper.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 21 April 2021 18:43 (three years ago) link
I came here to mention it, as discovered on RYM. cool album!
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Saturday, 24 April 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
always liked this one a lothttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq7cVq1LGWMCoastin' (2011)
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 26 April 2021 14:45 (three years ago) link
the beats on this feel like J Dilla meets Daniel Lopatin
― gman59, Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:12 (three years ago) link
this has been a good year for people who like doing it wrong.
y'all should check out this yungmorpheus x ewonee project, blunted confessions with some social commentary spliced in: https://yungmorpheus.bandcamp.com/album/thumbing-thru-foliage
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 27 April 2021 15:34 (three years ago) link
Pink Siifu's range on his latest is unbelievable.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 12 August 2021 12:19 (three years ago) link
Ka article in the New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/listening-booth/the-last-underground-rapper
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2021 00:03 (three years ago) link
ok finally getting around to the armand hammer album, and the dub-inflected beat on "falling out the sky" ft. earl sweatshirt is a thing of beauty
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 28 September 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
lol i sent that to a 25 y.o. friend who likes to argue with me about hip hop as a "thing i'm listening to" and i got a stream of angry reaction gifs for like five mintues
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 30 September 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
ha, i might've given you that reaction for the way overrated paraffin
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 September 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
― the mai tai quinn (voodoo chili), Tuesday, April 27, 2021 10:34 AM (five months ago) bookmarkflaglink
yungmorpheus has another album out, a collab with lo-fi pop singer eyedress. pink siifu is the only guest. sounding pretty good, so far.
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 October 2021 19:33 (two years ago) link
Only gave the most cursory of listens to the Armand Hammer. Digging that track now too, VC.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 October 2021 21:25 (two years ago) link
This weirdo album by Andrew Mbaruk & Th' Mole, somewhere between Armand Hammer and Anticon, definitely doing it wrong:
https://audiorecon.us/album/papier-m-ch-chalet
― Nature's promise vs. Simple truth (bernard snowy), Friday, 1 October 2021 22:34 (two years ago) link
a lot of recs i need to check out, thx everyone.
relistened to mach hommy 'pray for haiti' today and its so good. also he has a new one out
this is also really good, if older, slightly different angle, but has the siifu connection, great vibes, a little more street lyrically
https://kryptonyte.bandcamp.com/album/kryptonyte
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Saturday, 2 October 2021 00:46 (two years ago) link
zeelooperz has been one of the more interesting rappers out, and i feel like he's best experienced in album form, so i'm posting here. his new album get wet.radio is a bit softer than usual–doesn't have much of the braying delivery that marks projects like his recent van gogh's left ear–but still lots of experimentation with flows, from gotit/keed-esque half-whispered triplets to drawly melody
it's short but packed with ideas, everyone should listen! https://zelooperz.bandcamp.com/album/get-wet-radio
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Monday, 28 March 2022 20:32 (two years ago) link
some may enjoy doing it wrong on friday:
This Friday, @QuelleChris is dropping his new album "DEATHFAME" - it is the prequel to Kendrick Lamar's album and you won't understand anything on Kendrick's album unless you first listen to Quelle's album https://t.co/rfzGx2iyDW— Mello Music Group (@MelloMusicGroup) May 9, 2022
― in places all over the world, real stuff be happening (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 10 May 2022 03:45 (two years ago) link
certainly!
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:19 (two years ago) link
enjoying this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb8ml2M7ZYM
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 10 May 2022 06:40 (two years ago) link
that's Your Old Droog's new single Mind Your Business
a lot of bars
new fatboi sharif out on PTP takes this sound into weirder territory, was already starting to feel sorta over the post Griselda revivalist thing but this is on another level
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 14:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECvLMprZ-Eo
Lone Wolf Son of Cosmos, RIYL Killah Priest
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 16:51 (one year ago) link
just realized his flow reminds me of a third-eye-pilled Camp Lo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 16:54 (one year ago) link
really cool instrumental
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTfaR4IHDoo
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 16:58 (one year ago) link
that is cool, i'll check it out
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
could use an editior but that's kinda par for the course with this stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
some recs for those who might like doing it wrong
navy blue - ways of knowing: soulful, sample-heavy, deeply personal rhymes from a guy who is probably better known for his producing. beats are by budgie, a british boom-bap enthusiast who reminds me a bit of exile
niontay - dontay's inferno: one of my favorite projects of the year so far, reminds me of a more abstract version of veeze or bandgang lonnie bands. signed to ny rapper mike's label, so there's a bit of that left-of-center energy. beats are great.
lavarr the starr - illusions ago: latest project by ish butler of shabazz palaces!
mentioned defprez - it's always a time like this in the main rap thread, good cerebral stuff
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:41 (one year ago) link
Defprez is soooo good. Defcee is def one of the best backpackers out there
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:43 (one year ago) link
I've known the other rapper (crashprez) for years, super good dude (and music writer), glad to see it's getting some traction.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link
he is really great too was not familiar with him before
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 4 May 2023 18:49 (one year ago) link
i think that AKAI SOLO is someone doing it wrong in the specified way maybe? his style feels kinda unusual, like he's reeling off beat poetry rather than more standard hip hop bars a lot of the time. i can struggle to get on with him as easily as people like droog, WSG and others in this thread but i think his spirit roaming album was really good
https://akaisolo.bandcamp.com/album/spirit-roaming
― in_solar, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
yeah for sure. anything associated with the ptp label def counts
― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 11:09 (one year ago) link
Chester Watson - fish don't climb trees is pretty great doing it wrong hip hop
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
David - Plum Whisky
another great album from the thriving chicago scene
https://dorchesterbully.bandcamp.com/album/plum-whisky
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 14 July 2023 20:14 (one year ago) link
oops DAVIS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEX1JyVAgl4
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 November 2023 19:05 (ten months ago) link
different type time, the new album by the rapper cavalier, is a really great album. it's lyrical, but not quite as dense as many of the albums released by backwoodz artists, and he has an excellent ear for production. really funny too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQMFddBfl4c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCVGwez_qjQ
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:28 (five months ago) link
this one felt like a 2024 version of a song from common's resurrection
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJoIGIKls8w
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:41 (five months ago) link
why posting on this thread? seems like he's doing everything right to my ears!
(ty for posting, this is great!)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:50 (five months ago) link
I think the concept of this thread is that we olds prefer listening to albums (wrong) to scouring Youtube for what the kids are into (right)
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 15:59 (five months ago) link
lol forgot my sarcasm tags!
also vc-i was kinda going in mad because of the resurrection comparison, but nah... that's very apt. i've never heard him before. playing the album now and it's... a lot to take in, but the beats are kind of a breath of fresh air.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:22 (five months ago) link
yeah i've been digging Cavalier
I never know where to post my stuff on the rap thread or this, cuz technically most of what I post is doing it wrong but then it would just be voodoo (thank u for it all btw) stuff
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:31 (five months ago) link
i guess in my head this thread is specifically for arty, lyrical dudes who consciously shy away from the mainstream, but also aren't pure old man raps or nostalgia trips. artists like cavalier, elcuid, defcee, and the rest of the backwoodz roster, mike and the 10k crew (niontay, el cousteau), pink siifu and fly anakin, yung morpheus, maassai, etc.
trying to follow the spirit of uptown churl's original post
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:42 (five months ago) link
as for doing it wrong, the title was just a play on the "techno albums for people clearly doing it wrong" thread. tho this thread title would def be appropriate if there was more of a goon presence still on the board lol
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 16:47 (five months ago) link
xpost yeah that makes sensein that spirit:
https://theshah.bandcamp.com/track/howmuchyabench
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:16 (five months ago) link
yeah, i was totally goofin re:thread title/"doing it wrong" but all that makes a lot of sense. i think we used to call this sort of thing "alternative hiphop" (which is admittedly v uncool). i kinda consider it in the spirit of the next generation of native tongues affiliates + followers... poor righteous teachers, bush babees, little brother, etc.
the last track -"flourish"- on that cavalier is so good. "i wanna thank all the academies. i don't even know em all, but i wanna thank em." pure heart and soul. thanks again for this rec.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:26 (five months ago) link
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, April 24, 2024 11:42 AM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
this was all stuff that was posted in the yearly rap threads btw
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:39 (five months ago) link
i think there's enough of a scene doing specifically what uptown churl asked about in this thread that it's worth cross-posting.
also, i post in this thread and people respond, i post in the other thread and no one responds ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 17:44 (five months ago) link
dude pfork gave that cavalier an 8
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:35 (four months ago) link