Looking Back: Soulman World of Beats
Guzzo
8,611 Posts
http://www.samplehead.com/worldofbeats/
I remember looking at these articles when I was just beginning to look for records and just being in awe, trying to remember names mentioned of artists, totally identifying with hating newfangled rap music in the "jiggy" era. I did a google search for something or other this weekend and came across vol. 10 of the series (hi Big Chan).
Had a total backpack and cargo pants flashback and wanted to see what the strut thinks about these 13 years after the fact. Have these aged well, anybody else remember filing the term "library records" in the back of their mind?
I remember looking at these articles when I was just beginning to look for records and just being in awe, trying to remember names mentioned of artists, totally identifying with hating newfangled rap music in the "jiggy" era. I did a google search for something or other this weekend and came across vol. 10 of the series (hi Big Chan).
Had a total backpack and cargo pants flashback and wanted to see what the strut thinks about these 13 years after the fact. Have these aged well, anybody else remember filing the term "library records" in the back of their mind?
Comments
yeah, big time for me. a lot of knowledge. kinda wish soulmane would show up again and start war vs madrill pt. 2
Has anyone here every checked out his Bariton Tiplove project? J-Zone put me on to it. Haven't heard the entire thing, but what I've listened to is wild. J-Zone said that to him, the production was as good as early PE/Bomb Squad stuff.
Sorce-1
He hasn't been on here in a while..
:hayek:
He was once of the first guys--if not thee first--that I ever saw writing about the multi-dimensional role of records in the life of a digger/sample nerd. Like, "Top Ten Rock Breaks To Catch" was cool and all, but shit like "Top Ten Records To Clean The House To," or talking about his wife and kids and their impact on his records, was really eye-opening. Framing these records in that way, contextualizing beat-head shit within real life, was something that you never saw getting articulated at that time.
I mean, maybe a lot of people had those kinds of thoughts individually and internally, but to see them 1) on paper (RAPSHEET, motherfuckers--I'm old), 2) available for purchase in places where "the culture" was all but non-existent (shout out to Reid-A-Book tobacco shop/newsstand in fucking red-clay half-horse Anderson, South Carolina), and--most importantly--3) conveyed with clarity and juke and good humor, all of that was galvanizing in a way that is tough to make folks these days understand.
Soulman forever. Whatever he's up to these days, I hope he's doing all right.
He and Paul Nice are making records--Paul on the beats, Soulman on the rhymes. He sounds like he's having fun with it, which is dope.
And yes, WOB was the shit.
support Phills projects! hes been putting out a lot of records the last twelve months.
hes got a new one with Mr Fantastic
peace, stein. . .
Yep, looking forward to receiving the new Mr Fantastic release...sounds great.
WOB was one of the first things I checked when I got online....essential reading.
+1
Hahaha, if he were a dick instead of, you know, a really cool dude, he could put pressure on them with some Mad Skillz "Ghostwriter" shit. "Y'all keep fronting, I'ma start naming names, you so-called diggers!"
Had copies of those top ten lists copied and in my wallet
One of my favourite columns was the interview with Diamond D... the competitive back and forth...
I'm still wondering what that record with a train and break the Diamond D played Phill over the phone is....
I was inspired and learnt alot from those columns....
Would they be the first written pieces on digging to appear in magazines?
great idea doc
throw in a couple of hand sketched 12'' jackets and
Also, The Truth is Forever is a fantastic mix.
WOB ---> Crates List ---> Soul Strut
I've suggested it to him on at least two occasions on here, and he seemed a little ambivalent about it, if not necessarily averse to the idea. In any case, I expect his priorities lie elsewhere, and besides there's so little money in writing/publishing these days that he'd have to really want to take the time out of his life that something like a book would require.
From the description of how the music sounded, I've always suspected it was David Axelrods "A divine image", with Diamond giving it a fake name to throw people off. Unless Phill has an amazing memory though, it'll probably remain a mystery...