Cosmic Analog Ensemble, "Pourparlers" Set everything else aside: listen to how good this song sounds. Just the quality of the recording, the way the instruments sound, the space between them. It sounds amazing, just incredibly appealing. Blackalicious, "Jada's Vengeance" This is from a label sampler,...
Non Phixion, "Legacy" This is from the comp Fat Beats Compilation, Volume 1, a nice release from 2001 of a bunch of cats going mostly pretty old-school. Yes, there are multiple DJ Premier tracks on the comp. It's a fun record, worth just settling back...
The Nation of Ulysses, "Cool Senior High School (Fight Song)" Back in the day, there were troglodytes on Usenet that hated the Nation of Ulysses for being too arty, too pretentious, just too much. How stupid is that? This shit rocks, people are dumb. Death...
2Pac, "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" All Eyez On Me represented 2Pac's commercial peak, with the double-album selling tons of copies driven by "California Love". Of course, it would be the last album he would make while alive, so we don't know what he would...
Claude Fontaine, "Pretending He Was You" Claude Fontaine's self-titled 2019 album is a mix of reggae and a few other musical styles, such as the bossa nova of this track. It's a charming record, helped considerably by her hiring Jamaican musicians who are deeply familiar...
