J Dilla and now DJ Shadow are introducing me to instrumental hip hop. Kinda weird to get used to since I've never been all that into instrumental electronica either, but this is at least way less white. The lack of a rapper whose style can be dated to a particular time period, and greater artistic emphasis on the actual beats (obviously) actually makes this album from 1996 more timeless than anything else I've listened to from then. Even with the scratching. I'm gonna need to buy me a nice dubsack at some point to properly grok this.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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