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  • Question for the non-uk heads (hiphop-r)

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    djwaxon said:
    Thanks both. Yeah while not 100% hip hop per se, Stereo MCs were pretty important here for sure.

    I’ll check that YD Jimster, never came across them in my acid jazz phase, I was all about Corduroy above all else…that’s a big convo for another day.

    IIRC "Apparently Nothing" made some waves and got the YD name out there for a while, which is all most people know, but before that I'd seen Carleen Anderson already (she's about 4' tall with a 100' voice) and been blown away.

    People had rumoured that her album would have a lot of different styles on it and it was all the kind of shit you wouldn't believe how good it was.  This was about 1990, pre-internet so I didn't know that the YDs project was also this same project.  I wasn't sure what to expect but I trusted the opinion of the people I'd heard from.

    I remember speaking with upright bassist Wayne Batchelor on a jazz gig and he told me how good the stuff was that he'd recorded for it.  It wasn't just a Carleen project.  He said the JBs were on it (Carleen is JB family), The Style Council were on it, and there was a lot of rap and dub. I was dubious.... I mean, how's all that going to work?

    Turns out Marc Nelson knew *exactly* how, and the songs are somehow as good or better than the sum of the parts for me.  It's of its time but timeless.

    I heard they never recorded another YD set because Marc wasn't happy performing and Carleen had some kind of breakdown, but I am grateful for what they captured.  I think Marc was a perfectionist and there were loads of different mixes but I don't know if any of the remixes I've heard are as good as the album versions.  Looks like he knew what he was doing.


    djwaxon

  • Old movies you've only seen recently...

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    ppadilha said:
    Ana de Armas was great.

    She's excellent in the first "Knives Out" film where she's playing a plain-dressing care giver.  She manages somehow to make you forget how gorgeous she is, that's how well she plays it.

    Duderonomy

  • Need some help finding an RJD2 sample "To All Of You"

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    Superpoaster?


    growlix

  • Question for the non-uk heads (hiphop-r)

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    Off the top the UK stuff I was deep into in 1990/1/2/...
    YD set has some incredible music on it.  Has a special place for me because I was living in a freezing house in Manchester and we'd got burgled and they took all my music and gear apart from my turntables and amp.  My mates said they'd come back for them but in the meantime one lent me this album on vinyl so it was all I had to listen to when I was doing my finals.
    djwaxon

  • 2023 R.I.P. Thread

    JimsterJimster
    Itaian football maestro Gianluca Vialli.

    I remember him in his prime for Juve, a class act and a real handful to play against.  Managed Chelsea and Watford later on and was a scholar of the game and dapper gentleman pundit.

    58.  Cancer.

    Damn.
    ppadilhaDuderonomy