Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer

surprised at how little talk there's been abt this guy esp. considering how buzzed/buzzable he's been (weird backstory I think, Flying Lotus production) References are kinda all over the place: Dilla, Maxinquaye, Leila Arab but with a kinda mystic/ethnographic vibe. Creepy, eclectic and by and large pretty awesome.

it's a very interesting sounding album - the only thing i can compare it to is harco pront from quite a long time ago now.

i thought gaslamp killer did the production? saw a vid w/the 2 of them. beats seem cool. they seem hella annoying. not sure what'll sound like since i haven't heard a full song yet.

haven't heard the album but hope the dude's not like dudley perkins
where he should've just made one song or something

wait yeah, flying lotus only produced one track

madlib should just produce everything for everyone and the albums should all just be released as instrumentals

damn I just posted a real 2003 post

just another fantasy

flying scotus

massive spirit sample. did warp clear the samples?

(weird backstory I think, Flying Lotus production)

C'mon guys, are we talking Flying Lotus just turning some knobs in Ableton Live and trying to look badass, posing behind his laptop and twisting a couple knobs with greatly exaggerated movements?

If so, definitely count me out.

j/k, <3 Lotus, <3 the Gonjasufi tracks I've already heard, will pick up the album in due time.

everything I read about this album made me think I'd love it. this reinforces my try-before-I-buy policy. yuck.

it's kinda... i liked it. but the gaslamp killer dude's production seemed really lazy in parts, like erkin koray loop for 3 minutes, gonjasufi vamps till fade.

Yeah, I just sampled this via the iTunes 30-second clips and wasn't very encouraged outside the 2 songs I already knew from WFMU.

I don't think I really "get" this album.

it kind of sounds like Tricky but not as good

i can only get 2/3 of the way through the album before i get fed up.
something just doesn't click with me.
love the cover art though.

Picked this up yesterday. I enjoy the hip hop-styled tracks with strong rhythms more than the others.

This one's great:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_N63b2Tk-A

i think the appeal is that his voice fits in well with the really dirty post-dilla beats that are happening now, but if the beats aren't happening then there's nothing much there.

i hear him more as a hip hop devendra banhart.

I don't really get his voice though either ... I like lots of singers with "bad"/nontraditional voices but this is just like no-personality distorted croaking

i hear him more as a hip hop devendra banhart.

Must get... comparison..... out of my head.... :(

dunno, I was pumped to hear this after reading some reviews and then my reaction was just like eh

BTW, anyone know what the samples in "ageing" and "dednd" are? they're both really familiar and driving me crazy.

These are the ones I've caught so far:
2. Erkin Koray
6. Blue Phantom
7. Crazy Elephant
8. Las Grecas
15. Erkin Koray
18. Erkin Koray
19. Status Quo (second part)

stupidest name i've ever heard

how's the record though?

Excellent.

I love the remixes, can't listen to the album.

BTW, anyone know what the samples in "ageing" and "dednd" are?

Ha! Was just searching for the "Eastern dreams goin' round my brain/Eastern dreams drivin' me insane" sample myself and finally found it. It's Jeff St. John & The ID: "Eastern Dreams":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXG9cZb-Zk

There's a Spirit sample too somewhere - can't remember the name of the Gonjasufi song right now.

Is the Jeff St.John song contained in the Joint Effort album? Always wanted to check out that lp.

Aww man I should've known that, I have that song on like three comps. LAME ME.

did warp clear the samples?

― stirmonster, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 8:45 PM

probably not, if the packaging doesn't mention a single one of them. I like this record ok, but the 'production' here really is a fairly barebones representation of the original awesome tracks. which leaves the onus on the public to find out what they are -- and interesting things are happening now that attempts are being made to do that:

interesting post from DJ who made a mix of the original tracks, uploaded it to soundcloud, and had their wav-comparison bot automatically flag his mix as violating the copyright of the gonjasufi record. and his requests for review for his case all went ignored, so he hacked it by adding a Cassetteboy sample to the beginning to trick the bot

http://generationbass.com/2011/02/02/a-turk-and-a-killer-on-a-soundcloud/

found out about this through ripley's blog - http://djripley.blogspot.com/2011/02/great-carve-up.html

who also tipped me to the announcements / comments on the official soundcloud thread - http://blog.soundcloud.com/2011/01/05/q-and-a-content-identification-system/

this is very good, i was on a big erkin koray / bunalim trip a few years back but it's always nice having some alt hip hop producer bro doing the curatorial work for you

I like this record ok, but the 'production' here really is a fairly barebones representation of the original awesome tracks.

Yeah, that's kind of my problem with it. It's really, really lazy production. It's more like a mixtape.

This new mini-album really sucks, such a huge disappointment.

I love it and consider it better than the debut. Nikels and Dimes, The Blame and Rubberland are all major, level 2 FUCKING JAMS.

I don't hear a single jam anywhere on this thing, and I loved the debut.

Just my opinion brother.

Really liked the first Gonjasufi album, but having just heard that 'A Turk and a Killer' mix of the originals, I'm seriously perturbed by just how little original work was actually done compared to just ripping off other people

Well hey man at least you have a handful of rad 70s albums to check out now (hint: Blue Phantom and Las Grecas albums are killer!)

That's just what I'm doing!

My love for the small, perfectly formed M.U.Z.Z.L.E has grown tenfold. I know some people say A Sufi .. is better. Not for me.