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Paxico Records Limited Edition Cassette Tapes
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![selection nine from my top ten albums list. sun ra and his arkestra. ‘greatest hits: easy listening for intergalactic travel’. i’m a sucker for a good compilation. especially when it is apparent that someone else has done the scholarly research needed to adequately inform listeners who are immersing themselves in a catalog as immense as sun ra’s. it took me nearly eight years to even begin to understand his compositions. back in 2001 i copped ‘space is the place’ off of a recommendation. it was a hard listen, to say the least. really, i hated it. it was....noise. no form. no groove. little rhythm. or so i thought. i was 21 and because my ears were deeper than my peers’, i thought i knew good music. i eventually traded it for a donald byrd record, as i was just learning about the greatness of the mizell brothers. sun ra was a whole other ship. i did keep a handful of CDs of his that i bought at the same time, though. this was one of them. i heard SOMEthing in his music. but i realize now that i needed an entry point into his catalog. some kind of anchor. being an aspiring beatmaker, i was a student of swing. loved swing. and, man, could sun ra SWING! dilla had insane swing too. his own signature. sonic DNA i dubbed it. his sense of timing was....off. always a stutter-step or two off of where you would expect the downbeat to land. late, almost. pre-ableton hi-hats that would drift off time and get itself together prior to the loop coming back around. or sometimes not. kicks that would eff your whole head nod up. i recognized that in sun ra’s work.....but with an added ten different dimensions to it that i couldn’t comprehend. after dilla passed, @common referred to him as the john coltrane of our time. it wasn’t until i heard madlib’s ‘movie scenes’ volumes 1 & 2 that i realized that he was the sun ra of our time. and that’s when i [thankfully] reached back to that stack of CDs to begin connecting the dots and began the work of recognizing sun ra’s influence on his work and approach. and so, madlib was my gateway into understanding + respecting sun ra’s work. [cont. below] @nublunyc @nublui #toptenalbums #sunra #arkestra #easylisteningforintergalactictravel](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568096a51c1210eb4f6b9390/5680a2bae0327cd48adb5f12/5b492427f60e7c17d137d79b/1531520052779/)
![time to wrap this up. selection eight from my top ten albums list. madlib. ‘beat konducta: movies scenes, vol. 1-2’. i first came to know about madlib back in 2001, when yesterday’s new quintet’s ‘angles without edges’ dropped. shouts to @questlove on the @okayplayer message boards for pluggin’ that. that album, by the way, nearly made this list. it took me this long - since my previous post - to decide between the two. narrowing down any kind of selection out of madlib’s body of work is damn near impossible. it’s that massive. from the lootpack and quasimoto works. to the dj rels project. to madvillain and ‘shades of blue’. to new yesterday’s new quintet and all of it’s various iterations.....the last electro-acoustic space jazz & percussion ensemble is my favorite, btw. to jaylib. to ‘beat konducta in india’ and far, far beyond. if there was one project that i’d have to settle on that best represented madlib’s work for me, it’d have to be this one. though i owned several of his projects, this was the one that helped me to really understand his approach. which was that there wasn’t one. it was a free expression. well, about as free of an expression that a hip hop producer could have. i traveled for a couple of weeks through Singapore with this CD [only] when it first dropped. dilla has just passed a couple of months before. donuts had dropped, and i needed a break from it. honestly, i was having a hard time understanding it. by the time i returned, my thinking around production was completely rearranged. i had a much more complete understanding of ‘donuts’ and where dilla was headed before he passed. and i understood how truly important [and crucial] madlib was in all of that. i’m convinced now that dilla moved to LA for the weather, the trees and to be closer to him. and i’ve been convinced that madlib is the greatest producer alive. easily in my top three. i may just give that list a run next. anyways....about to head into the city, bumping this all the way. hope that you enjoy this one as much as i have. #toptenalbums #mablib #thebeatkonducta](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/568096a51c1210eb4f6b9390/5680a2bae0327cd48adb5f12/5b47760f28bbc16a1c9be661/1531409948833/)
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