(UPDATED 08/02)




Artist Name: Q-TIP
Album Title: AMPLIFIED

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This is a truly waited solo album from Q-Tip after the break up of ATCQ. I 've been listening to the 2 singles , " Vivrant Thing " and " Breathe and Stop " . And what I've been worrying so much was that they were party rap tunes, not the type of work I expected from Q-tip. And when I heard the full album, it sounded quite similar in sound with the last album " THE LOVE MOVEMENT ". A latest Ummah sound production, with reverved piano and organ loops with a bass that you don't get a clue what it's playing or if it's playing at the first place. 2 tracks were produced by DJ SCRATCH, and this had a latino taste. In lyric , and probably the main theme of this album was to be a floor tune with lyrics like " A real good girl is dancin' ............." thought of concept. If anybody felt like "What the heck is he doin' ? " and not satisfied about color of this album, you should try listening to the secret track " DO IT BE IT SEE IT ". That might make you more at ease and that'll make you get the idea of the album more smoothly. This is a song with Q-Tip tellin' his own story about " It was not luck that I got here. You can do it.... " . What he thinks about the carrer he passed, with heart hitting lyrics like " I had a fight with Phife...." , and " Plus my house burnt down ..." (That made all his LP collection burn....) ..... The songs that I like are " Higher " , with a real Jay-dee taste and "Let's Ride " with a Wes Montgomery like guitar loop. What surprised me was the song " End of Time " which features KORN!!!! People might feel like I didn't enjoy the album very much , but I never said that it was wack.... The problem is that this is not a ATCQ album but for starters for a Q-Tip album. Otherwise you won't enjoy it......

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Artist Name: COMPANY FLOW
Album Title: LITTLE JOHNNY FROM THE HOSPITAL

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This is a complete instrumental album from Co-Flow, supposed to be on use for their live shows. By the time they come to Japan in February, they'll probably have the lyrics on all of these songs. As you can hear that it's a complete album with only the beats, the guys who had somethin' to do with this was only Mr.Len and El-p. They both seperately made their own beats in some songs, and in some other, they waorked together. I heard that two of these guys have a huge LP collection.... probably that's where all these crazy beats came out. The sound from what I hear is really differrent from their last LP, " Funcrusher + ". It has some more alternative taste that I can't explain. The beat that kinda got into me was " friend vs friend " , that done by both of the guys, it has this rare groove thought of horn break looping around, and when the drum beats with the ride cym,bals join, it starts to sound really great. It 's really simple but enjoyable. There are 2 songs with live bass in it, Appleseed and Don playing it, it sounds like they've plugged the bass into a Synth effector and that made it sound so so CRAZY!!!!

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Artist Name: BLACKALICIOUS
Album Title: A2GEP

�����Blackalicious��EP�ŁA�l���ނ�̃��C�u�ɍs�������ɂ₽��Ɗ��������Ƃ���"Alphabet Aerobicc"���Ă����Ȃ������Ă܂��B�i����̓A���o���ɂ͓����ĂȂ��Ȃł��B�j����͂ǂ�ȋȂ��Ƃ����܂���The Cut Chemist�̕ϑ��r�`�g�i��������I�I�I�j�ɂ̂���MC ��Gift of Gab��A����Z�܂ł̃A���t�@�x�b�g�Ŏn�܂�P����g���ă��b�v���Ă����Ă����X�S�C�Ȃł�...�B"A to G"�������m���̋ȂȂ�ł���....�B�v����ɁA"Artificial Amatuers Are All Amazing..... Analyticaly i Assault Animate things........Broken Barriers Bounded By the Bomb Beats...."���ĂȊ�����Z�܂ł�����ł���.....�B�X�S�N�Ȃ��ł����H�H�H����Quannum���`�x����Latryx��Lateef����ȉ�����āA����Gift of Gab��Chief Xcel�̖��R���r�������Ɋy���߂܂��B�܂����̃W���P�b�g�̃A�`�g���`�N��B+ (�r�`�N���X���ēǂ݂܂��B�j���Ă���DJ SHADOW�̃A�`�g���`�N��S�����Ă�l������Ă܂��B���̐l���Z���X����낵���I�I�I
This is a Blackalicious EP, which features the song "Alphabet Aerobics" which is not included in the album..... I went their live shows and was amazed by this song..... The reason why the song is called "Alphabet Aerobics" is that it goes like this , "Artificial Amatuers Are All Amazing..... Analyticaly i Assault Animate things........Broken Barriers Bounded By the Bomb Beats....". Probably you got the point... it goes all the way to the letter "Z" !!! Really amazing....!!! The song "A to G " is somehting quite similar to this.... Lateef from the Latryx , also from the same Quannum label joins in one of the songs , and the art work of this EP is done by B+ ( pronounced Bee-Cross...), the same guy who did the DJ SHADOW art works. A real great album to enjoy the talent of MC Gift of Gab and DJ Chief Xcel...

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Artist Name: BEASTIE BOYS
Album Title: BEASTIE BOYS ANTHOLOGY THE SOUNDS OF SCIENCE

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I definately think that this best album came in the right time.... If you wanna go snowboarding, you just need to take this album and nothing else!! Just reminding you that Adam Yauch himself is a snowboarder and he knows what's best when you go downhill. I first heard Bestie Boys when I was like 12. My friends big brother was a skater and he had their album "Check Your Head" playing loud in his room. In those days HipHop was like RAP, and all I listened to was Public Enemy and LL COOL J. And this sound, almost noize like HipHop by these 3 white guys really hit me!! And when I was like 14, their album "Ill Communication" came out. The years have changed, and HipHop was now a main stream music... There was a clear difference between what was wack and what rocked. And Beastie ROCKED like hell. I mean it's clear to say that the song "ROOT DOWN" expresses the HipHop culture itself, and�@"Get It Together" made me meet Q-Tip(This was the first time I fell in love with ATCQ) Who is this MC? Wait a minute?!!! With the essence of PUNK ROCK, with all the music put into a mixer, this is their best album....!!!! Also note that their new single, "Alive " is included. And "Body Movin' " is featured in the FAT BOY SLIM version , " Three MCs and One DJ" is feature in the one take Mix Master Mike version , A cover of Elton John's song " Benny and the Jets " is done by Money Mark, and Yauch sings with Miho from Chibo Matto "Twenty Questions" bossanova song. Really enjoyable best album!!!

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Artist Name: A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Album Title: THE ANTHOLOGY

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Well, There's not much to explain..... is there??! Well, with the best album releases following from Gang Starr and Beastie Boys , maybe HipHop has come to an another changing point( Not a turning point) . The selection of the songs are basically from their famous album "Low End Theory" and "PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATH RHYTHM".�@There's like only 2 songs from "Beats Rhymes & Life" and one song from "THE LOVE MOVEMENT" . I guess any ATCQ fan would have made the same choice.... The good choice was that they included "If the Papes Come" which was the b-side of "Can You Kick It?" and Q-Tip's solo work , "Vivrant Thing". I found something quite interesting from THE ROOTS homepage . There's a comment about Q-Tip's solo work album "Amplified " from the drummer ?uestlove. You should go and read it yourself!!!!

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Artist Name: THE ROOTS
Album Title: COME ALIVE

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This album is what we've all been waiting for!!! a complete live album by THE ROOTS!!! I really think that there is no meaning at all if you don't listen to this album which would tell how this live band HipHop group could bring!!!! Jazz and HipHop are both music that were born in the 20th century. They both share the word improvisation as the key word to their music. I think that what Charlie Parker brew as an adlib solo on his horn has the same meaning like the modern HipHop MCs freestyle with their mic. Personally to me, HipHop brings to me is Jack Keluac's poetry reading with Charlie Parker's Jazz. HipHop is highly literatual art form. Jack Keluac's poetry also brings me to my favourite painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat himself was a great fan of the Bird, Miles Davis, De La Soul , and Grandmaster Flash.... Now let me bring back the subject to THE ROOTS. What I was trying to say was that THE ROOTS are at the "Ultimate Level" of HipHop. When I first heard THE ROOTS, I could hardly play anything on my bass, but I knew this sound was what I wanted to do. And this album has the sound that I wanted and admired spread all over the album. The songs in this album is basically taken from their album "Do You Want More???" and "Things Fall Apart". There are few new songs. Malik B, who hates to tour all around does not participate much in this album. "You Got Me" which is usually sang by Erykah Badu( The rumour about having beef with Erykah seemed to be not true...) is sang by Jill Scott, who originally wrote the song. A vocalist called Jaguar is featured in few tracks. I personally wanted them to include songs form their first indie album "The Organix". I think that the songs "Pass the Popcorn" and "Good Music" is simply just GOOD MUSIC!!!!

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Artist Name: GANG STARR
Album Title: FULL CLIP : A DECADE OF GANG STARR

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Well known best album from GANG STARR. It features their work from 1989~1999 in 2 complete CDs. To my surprise Gang Starr, never had an album that sold so much, but they truly catched the hearts of the headz. Everybody wanted to do scratches like DJ PREMIER and rhyme like GURU. The album features few new songs, and many hits like "Mass Appeal" and "Jazz Thing" which you could only hear from the soundtrack "Mo' Better Blues" which actually didn't have the version which was played in the ending of the movie. A happy news for people who've been trying to record the song from the video. Also the Dj favoured song "DWYCK" featuring NICE & SMOOTH is included. Many kids don't know the lyrics of "The Star Spangled Banner" but they surely knows the lyrics of "DWYCK".!!! (nah.....just joking.....!!!)

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Artist Name: EMINEM , PHAROAHE MONCH & SHABAAM SAHDEEQ
Single Title: ANY MAN , WW III

This is also a cut from the album RAWKUS PRESENTS SOUNDBOMBING II. Eminem is doing the single "Any Man", and PHAROAHE MONCH & SHABAAM SAHDEEQ does the "WW III" . I was real curious about Eminem , the white MC who was so praised by DR. DRE and the others, and wanted to hear some of his work since I didn' have the chance to hear "SLIM SHADY" . Well, what I thought was that he is a skillful MC but with rather a weak voice. If you compare it from somebody like El-P. I did like the song "WW III" , but it is something real catchy to come out of RAWKUS label.
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Artist Name: THE ROOTS
Album Title: THE LEGENDARY

This is a limited edition EP from THE ROOTS and you can't probably get it anymore from the stores.... (Luckily I got it ....but..) It features 5 songs, some from the live gigs that they had in Zurich , Switzerland. It has the live version of "THE NEXT MOVEMENT" , and other songs are new songs that are not included in the albums. The songs are "intro/jusufckwithis " , " Table Of Contents -(Part 3) " , "The Ultimate " , and " The Battlestar ?uestacula (Part 3 -The Search for Scratch) " .
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Artist Name: MOS DEF , COMPANY FLOW , & DIAMOND
Single Title: NEXT UNIVERSE , PATRIOTISM , WHEN IT POURS IT RAINS

This is a single from the various artist album "RAWKUS PRESENTS SOUNDBOMBING II." It dosen't mean that MOS DEF, COMPANY FLOW, and DIAMOND is doing a one song , they just have there own songs.... although it would be really interesting to see all of them rap in one track!!! I bought the single since it featured COMPANY FLOW's new single... Anything from COMPANY FLOW is in these days very interesting......!!!!
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Artist Name: VARIOUS ARTISTS
Album Title: QUANNUM SPECTRUM

This is an album from the MoWax label which features lots of underground culture from the west coast bay area scene. DJ SHADOW produces most of the songs and it shows his way to the new sound that he is searching. You can hear HipHop to R&B , Lounge , and Electro.... featuring JURASSIC 5, LYRICS BORN , and EL-P from COMAPNY FLOW. Most of the songs features astonishing drum progarmming that is hard to tell from live drum sounds!!! One of the best compilation album that I've heard recently!!!!
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Artist Name: DJ SHIN & SHINGO2
Album Title: PEARL HARBOR / JAPONICA EP

Shingo2 is the skillful fully billingal MC from the Bay Area. He was originally born in South Africa, but he is Japanese. He fully uses his skill of both Japanese and English Mcing, and I guess he is one of the leading Mcs in the Japanese underground scene. The EP consists of4 tracks made by Dj Shin and Shingo2 showing off his skill, and one track even features a 6-string assasin, that is in other words, a guitarist.
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Artist Name: DR.OCTAGON
Album Title: DR.OCTAGONECOLOGYST

Dr.Octagon maybe more well know as Kool Keith. If you still don't know him, let's say PRODIGY. Kool Keith is the guy who was repeating "Smack my bitch up, Change my pitch up" in Prodigy's song "SMACK MY BITCH UP" . They did couple of live GIGS together, that why he's quite famous. But that doesn't mean his wack 'cuz he worked with Prodigy... He is a skillful talented Mc in many ways..... but he is quite special and crazy in many ways. He's a famous porno collector and this album also goes around the same taste...!! He has records of being in a mental hospital and he is currently still in one of 'em!!! BUt album is really enjoyable... It features Q-Bert....
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