Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle (1988)

Yeah, 1988 one of my favourites hip hop years. Before A Tribe Called Quest & De La Soul there was another group that was reppin the Native Tongues. The Jungle Brothers where the first of the crew to put out an album. They got some conscious lyrics with some dope production. The beats really help them out cause they rap very mellow and they aren't the best mc's, but they manage to make some good music. The title cut is a classic song it's a good representation of their sound, there are many other very good songs on the LP. The song "I'll House You" altho not very good, it started the whole wave of those hip-house songs that flooded many rap albums from 89 to 91. The album is also known for introducing Q-Tip, he's featured on 2 songs. Overall Straight Out the Jungle is a dope album, altho not perfect it's an important album in the evolution of hip hop.

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TMTR #4 - The Big Dada Report

[en la imagen New Flesh, click para bajar]

Big Dada Recs. actúa como la filial de Ninja Tune dedicada al Hip Hop underground (sea en su faceta experimental, grime o francamente "pichulera") de Londres principalmente (aunque también han editado a gringos como Saul Williams, Michael Ladd -más conocido por Majesticons, Infesticons- o Daniel Dumile. Lo mismo con franceses como TTC). Desde su comienzo en 1997 ha sido capaz de hacerse cargo de una escena tremendamente activa, mi impresión es que están escribiendo un capitulo importante en la historia del Hip Hop. Esto no es periodismo así que no hay más detalles.

Los criterios de la selección: a) canciones me gustan. b) canciones representativas de los distintos matices en el sonido de este sello. c) canciones de discos recientes (a veces relativamente recientes).

01 Big Dada Sound - showtime / 02 Wiley - 5050 / 03 New Flesh - Wherever We Go / 04 TTC - Quand je claque des doigts / 05 Spank Rock - bump / 06 Roots ManuvaTY - What You Want (Taylormade) (feat. Taylor McFerrin, Joy Jones & Jason Yarde) / 08 Wiley - my mistakes (ft. manga little d) (prod. by bless beats) / 09 Busdriver - Somethingness (w Radioinactive, Rhetoric) / 10 Infinite Livez Vs Stade - unbiased reductionism in 21st century music practices. -movements / 07