Underground R&B

I wish Duplaix's album would've had more of his house tracks on it.

hehe, i designed it (along with his site and ABB's)

all the names i was going to mention were already said (Vikter Duplaix, Peven) and you could also mention Spacek. even though it seems to be made by and listed to by electronic heads, it's pretty much RnB.

The people from vikter were going to send me his lates album, but they never did, so I cannot comment on it. However, I did like his mixcd out on Studio K7 very much

Jan

you know, i still don't own a copy of that disc. i was working with ABB on their webstuff, and made a little micro site for Peven. they liked the design for the website and asked me to make it into the cd cover. instead of a usual few weeks it takes to put everything together, i had 1day. needless to say some things got messed up and Beni B - ABB's head boss man - got pissed and started yelling at me. if you don't know who he is, he's a sort of intimidating fellow that probably has connections in the Oakland underground. he asked me where i lived. i said "uh, downtown" and he said, "no, what street do you live at" and i said, "why, are you coming to get me?" and he responded, "you won't know when i'm coming to get you." so i finished the project, got paid didly, and never talked to them again.

Of course the weird thing about this is that the "underground r&b" it spawns is actually more conservative and traditional than the chart stuff.

Note: I'd really like to see r&b in an undie/backpacker style, not exactly in the form of indie singer + undie beats, but something more interested in the chart structures (because Aaliyah and "What About Us" sorta kinda seem like what a backpacker r&b might be, too). There was a Miho Hatori + Prefuse track on a Chocolate Industries compilation (i.e., indie singer + undie beats, too bad) that had me thinking Miho was like the Ashanti of the comp -- it was a good track, but I wonder what it'd have sounded like if my Ashanti thought wasn't an offhand joke but a serious thing.

also just listened to another ABB Soul artist Lizz Fields at the Virgin listening station yesterday. not exactly sure about it yet. it's got the same kind of Spacek spacey/soul beats, but a sort of neo-soul Jill Scott type singer. i think it's good, but i'm not sure enough to buy it. you can listen to some clips here:
http://www.abbrecords.com/abbsoul/artists/lizz.html

peven everett is playing at the silver room's block party in wicker park this saturday @ 8pm

can we talk about waajeed presents... the war on this thread?

im sure theres a better thread than this one for this but n/m

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/aug/15/timbaland-future-stars-experimental-cassie

"We're living in a post-Cassie world, for sure," says Jessy Lanza, the Hamilton, Ontario, singer and songwriter whose debut album for Hyperdub is what might have resulted had Cassie worked with a producer aware of developments in dubstep.

wasnt aware there was any dubstep in jessy lanzas album. i really need to reinvestigate cassie too from the looks of it.

R&B 2013

Did Sy Smith really fail to materialise in this thread? I mean the woman actually calls herself the queen of underground R&B.