Anthony Naples – Mad Disrespect

"Mad Disrespect" Samples Pharrell and Kanye West -"Number One" from 2006.

Just put that together after all these years and it blew my mind

Good record, but not great. Not sure why this record blew up like it did. Sure A1 is very well done. The rest is forgettable. Perhaps a future classic just from "Mad Disrespect" alone, but I wouldn't call this a remarkable record.

'Slackness' is some proper nasty stripped down funk for 4:15am

kind of boring? nothing new to see here.

It's a wonder that critics chose the comparatively simplistic and pedestrian "New For U" over "Mad Disrespect" as the best track of 2012.

Astonishing and refreshing record in which you hear some Chicago house joie-de-vivre, some Detroit mood a la Moodymann or Rick Wade, some teasing cut-up disco wizardry reminiscent of the Sound Stream/Smith N Hack team, and also some minimal mindfuckery ; but it's all more breathing, spacious, like if Mr Naples was using the same ol' gear that you heard in the past 25 years but he read the notice book differently, with more subtlety, tenderness, lightness, sense of space and full-on audacity...proof that novelty is still possible in house music, using the same ingredients with a different approach and dosage, like the hottest young chef in town would do to traditional cuisine, causing a palate delight.