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Groove Chronicles - Stone Cold - 12-Nov-07 08:18 PM
"Stone Cold" is a stone cold classic 2-step jam. The beautiful mellow into features smooth sax samples over rolling El-B beats and Aaliyah vocal samples sliced up throughout. Then it breaks down and the growling bass comes in before tougher beats come in to roll it out to the end of the track, bringing back in the other elements bit by bit. This track seems to be gaining momentum from the popularity of Burial, who cites El-B as an influence.

Warren Harris - Time Hotel - 11-Jun-07 08:17 AM
This is a fantastic deep 12" from Hanna, his best work in my opinion. All tracks have a very distinctive shuffle to them along with warm electric piano and fat basslines. For whatever reason, this seems to be a relatively obscure Sound Signature release. Its definitely worth hunting down.

Kevin Reynolds (2) - Afrik / Anonymous Room At The Corridor Of Last Night - 02-Jun-07 04:54 PM
This is a fantastic example of what Detroit techno sounds like in the 00s. Mr. Reynolds has spent a good deal of time with Aril Brikha and Derrick May, you can hear both in these stunningly beautiful melodic tunes, but this is not just an old school effort here. Modern production tools and tricks are used to great effect without sounding gimmicky or dated. Glitched out vocal bits in "Afrik" actually work as part of a fully composed and arranged melody and song. "Anonymous Room...." utilises warm synth chords and bongos to get really deep before the clean subbass comes in to really increase the energy level. These tunes will be banged out by both melodic techno and deep house deejays for years to come. A fantastic 12" record. Now we just need the rest of the album to drop on wax!

J Dilla - Donuts - 14-Apr-07 05:53 AM
Ive been a fan of Jay Dee since he was making beats for the Pharcyde and Tribe back in the 90s. I picked up his first solo album "Welcome 2 Detroit" when it came out, and it is undeniably a classic. However, nothing before Donuts led me to believe that the man would come through with something like this. Donuts is remarkable in many ways. The idea of a beat tape with many short tracks doesnt seem immediately listenable, yet the cohesiveness of this album is superb. While it is hiphop, it is also psychedelic and very melancholic as well. The range of emotion expressed with some records and a sampler is completely insane. This is inarguably his masterwork, something that will be inspiring beat heads and hiphop fans for years, but it will also be accessible to the every day music fan as well because of its great emotional power. One of the classic albums from the 00s.....

Alif Tree - Forgotten Places - 05-Nov-06 07:43 AM
Moodymann delivers a stellar remix here, taking the original downtempo jam and turning it into a broken jazz house cut. The theme of "Forgotten Places" is reimagined as a tale about Detroit, a city abandoned in many ways after the 12th Street riot in 1967. Kenny Dixon himself adds vocals, shouting out streets, neighborhoods (including Black Bottom, a black neighborhood demolished in order for Interstate 75 to be constructed) and famous figures from the city of Detroit, even namechecking Buy-Rite records, the small record shop that once employed Rick Wilhite and himself and was one of the underappreciated centers of techno out on 7 Mile. A fantastic deep ode to black Detroit!

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