• Shabazz Palaces Black Up Review

Some people seem to think that Shabazz Palaces recent debut live show was a legendary performance that will go down in history as one of the most important musical moments in Seattle history. I really like a few of their tracks, especially the one that shamelessly rips Bootsy Collins. Do musicians sue anymore? Seems like Bootsy has some duckets coming his way from this track. Anyway, what do you think? Are they really special/unique/game changing like some people say or is it just the dude from Digable Planets making backpack hip hop for white kids into indie rock? As far as pseudonymous people on the internet go, you don't exactly so the inquisition was a bit weird.

Anyway i guess you ride for these guys? Sherlock holmes season 3 episode 1 watch online. The 'belhaven meridian' vid was a highlight of last year fro me mainly for the gorgeous black and white, and the Killer of Sheep ref (just saw that movie in a new print last year), and the seasick inversion. Didn't fall in love with the music but did feel the infectious 'that's what's up' refrain and the marimba sounding coda and the way it sounds cut from a larger thing of musical directions that're different but all of a piece.

But that larger thing wasn't what i was in the mood for when i came across it, having just used my bohemian quotient up listening to the Mos Def album, which, though not similar in sound, does wander around different ideas and struck me as half-assed and out-of-focus. Still passing on investigating Shabazz Palaces more for now.

―, Wednesday, 13 January 2010 00:13 (eight years ago). Ok, I listened to the SP album again and thought about the whole Clipse thing. I really don't see at all how those two groups are more similar to each other than any other two randomly picked rap acts. The most notable stylistic difference between them is Clipse's fussy concision in rhyme/beat/song construction vs Shabazz's more ramshackle nature. As far as the rapping, besides their divergent subject matter, the Clipse deliver everything with a sneer, in contrast to Ish's more laconic rap style. The comparison with The Ecstatic makes more sense, but the Shabazz album(s?) is/are way better and altogether less boring than Mos' most recent. ―, Friday, 15 January 2010 21:48 (eight years ago).

I checked shabazz palaces out on deej's mention in another thread—i'm really enjoying it. I'm listening to the album right now and it's great. I wish I'd known about it sooner. Sounds kind of like if The Bug was American.

Shabazz Palaces Black Up Review

I can't really say about the bug but i do get a kind of british/international beat science vibe from the EPs—in a good way, kind of like that stuff has been improved on by being americanized. (i don't think it's just hearing an american voice, either.) it makes it sound fresher than you would expect for what is otherwise pretty traditionalist. It's odd how many of the tracks just kind of end.

―, Thursday, 27 January 2011 04:11 (seven years ago). Still trying to work out what i think of this. The beats are really inventive, i enjoy it.i totally admire this on a head level but haven't got beyond that yet. Comment upthread 'if the bug was american' rings true, and i'm also reminded of saul williams, but williams and the bug both had those moments of RAAARGHHH ferocity that really sucked you in, whereas this album kind of retreats further into itself as it goes on. Almost like he's just talking to himself. ―, Monday, 18 July 2011 10:40 (seven years ago).

Its not as abrasive as the bug thankfully (i do still like the bug though some of his earlier stuff kinda pre-dubstep is a bit too idm-noise-y) and its not as noisy/rocky as saul williams but yeah its similar in some ways, but i dont think its intellectual to the point of having no emotional impact - i love his voice and flow but the lyrics are very dispersed so its hard to really get wrapped up in them. But i find myself really liking (AND admiring) the beats. They i would say are what make it rap album of the year for me. The rappers on the very last track are a bit average though. Was surprised to hear they are signed to sub pop too. ―, Monday, 18 July 2011 10:58 (seven years ago). Chimurenga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimurenga‎ Chimurenga is a word in the Shona language, roughly meaning 'revolutionary struggle'.

The word's modern interpretation broadly denotes a struggle for human. ‎ First Chimurenga - ‎Second Chimurenga (1966–1979) - ‎In music - ‎References Chimurenga music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimurengamusic‎ Chimurenga music is a Zimbabwean popular music genre coined and popularized by Thomas Mapfumo.

Chimurenga is a Shona language word for liberation. ―, Thursday, 6 February 2014 21:39 (four years ago). My guess is this will include more guitars and conventional instrumentation considering their work with whatever shitty 3rd rate Seattle band they were working with last year. ― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:50 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink Hope I'm wrong though, their collaboration was pretty dire. ― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, May 1, 2014 3:52 PM Bookmark btw if you're talking about Erik Blood, he's mixed all of SP's records from the beginning and has been an integral part of their whole thing from the getgo ―, Friday, 2 May 2014 19:55 (four years ago). I'm an EPs album guy, too, I think primarily because I spent several months listening to the EPs, mind blown, stoked on this new discovery (i was lucky to read an early Stranger blog post about SP and ordered the EPs from Ish via email). The album is great, and obviously sounds better, but (a) my expectations were massive, and (b) the thrill of discovery was impossible to replicate.

I love both - all three, whatever - but i do feel like the album has a sort of shadowy evasiveness that the EPs don't have. Like on the EPs, Ish is just making music. On the album he knows people are gonna be listening and wants to make 'em work / fuck wit 'em a bit. (not that that's a bad thing.) ―, Thursday, 5 June 2014 23:05 (four years ago). The problem with these two albums to me is that it's basically just a sketched out version of a story that was also there on Lese Majesty.

But, some of the details are great. I'm not the worlds biggest hip-hop expert, has there been much talk of 'Quasars' before?

It's brilliant as a concept, not a star (which were negative on Lese Majesty, too corporate, too gilded pharaoh) but a quasar, QUAsi-StellAR, star-like but in fact powered by a black hole at the center. That's kinda afro-futurism at it's finest, imo. ―, Monday, 28 August 2017 12:13 (eleven months ago).