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Aesop Rock ironically lead me to become a boc fan. I used to listen to "float" all the time and my favorite song was Drawbridge with feat. Doseone. I then started becoming a Doseone/anticon fan and then stumbled across the boc remixes of Dead dogs Two and Good Friday. and the rest is history.

Anyone who's into anticon stuff should check out the album The Taste of Rain...Why Kneel? by Deep Puddle Dynamics.

TaoTapeTao wrote:Also I'll reiterate:

DEATH GRIPS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFmZ6WDkuj0

This.

Also, if you're not listening to El-P and Killer Mike, you're doing rap music in 2013 all sorts of wrong.

https://soundcloud.com/foolsgoldrecs/ru ... er/s-VQBdb

And if you enjoy your hip hop made by dirtbag former chefs from Queens, there's always Action Bronson. As a bonus, his last album was produced by the Alchemist.



http://youtu.be/J2AHvZWojSc

I've been waiting for this thread to surface.... I'm an old school hip hop head from way back... and I'll be concocting a list of Golden Age classic albums soon...

But for now I want to leave you with an album that is relatively unknown these days and extremely underrated. It's called "My Field Trip to Planet 9" by Justin Warfield. It was produced by none other than Prince Paul in 1993. You may know Justin Warfield from his later success with the band She Wants Revenge (which was kind of strange retro new wave and out of nowhere), but long before that he made a psychedelic hiphop album with Prince Paul and it's sick. Just listen to this track "Cool Like the Blues" and make sure you listen to the minuet tagged onto the end that starts at 3:48... You will fall in love with that part for sure. Gets me high like some BoC does.... let me know what you think....

EDIT: PS. JOEY BADA$$ and PRO ERA are bringin' it back to the real. RIP CAPITAL STEEZ

Listen to this Jay Dee record and pay attention to the track Body Movin' there's a melody in there that everyone here will dig.

Elexen wrote:My Field Trip to Planet 9 by Justin Warfield

Good call. Love this album and a underrated MC . I love the tracks he did with Bomb The Bass in the mid 90s. Bug Powder Dust was awesome, especially the La Funk Mob remix, but this has to be my favorite.

ChipSuey wrote:Also, if you're not listening to El-P and Killer Mike, you're doing rap music in 2013 all sorts of wrong.

Yes! I met EL-P last year on the Cancer4Cure tour. Lovely chap and amazing show. I also met Despot too (he was supporting). Really funny guy and can't wait for his album.

WeHadNormality wrote:

Elexen wrote:My Field Trip to Planet 9 by Justin Warfield

Good call. Love this album and a underrated MC . I love the tracks he did with Bomb The Bass in the mid 90s. Bug Powder Dust was awesome, especially the La Funk Mob remix, but this has to be my favorite.

Hell yes, that's s dope track too.

d e n wrote:Listen to this Jay Dee record and pay attention to the track Body Movin' there's a melody in there that everyone here will dig.

I was on a NYC based record label back in 2002 and Dilla stayed down the hall from me for about a week on business and we hung out and smoked a blunt together, I didn't really listen to Slum Village back then, I just thought that he a was cool dude. Also smoked a blunt with Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth, he was so chill and funny. Killa Priest was on the same label, so I hung with him on the regular that year. BTW, Priest just put out a great album called The Psychic World of Walter Reed. It's pretty sick.

All cool ass dudes. But I didn't realize that how sick Dilla was getting, he looked fine and didn't say nothing (why would he, I guess). When I think back it sorta blows my mind that I was hanging with a soon to be legend. Pretty neat.

Elexen wrote:produced by none other than Prince Paul

This too. Prince Paul is one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time imo. Have you ever heard his first release, Resident Alien-It Takes a Nation of Suckas To Let Us In? You can tell he was drawing huge influence from Public Enemy (Bomb Squad more specifically) at the time. It's sooo good.


EDIT: Outrageously bad spelling now corrected.

Anyway, I'm currently listening to MC Paul Barman - Excuse You (again). This beat is ridiculously good.

WeHadNormality wrote:

Elexen wrote:produced by none other than Prince Paul

This too. Prince Paul is one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time imo. Have you ever heard his first release, Resident Alien -
It Takes a Nation of Suckas To Let Us In? You can tell he was drawing huge influence from Public Enemy (Bobmb Squad more specifically) at the time. It's sooo good.

Ha! You're the only other person who I've ever heard bring that up. Cheers to that.

My favorite producers from the 90's (till now) are probably (off the top of my head).....

DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Jazzy Jeff and DJ Muggs.

There are so many more but those guys are just fucking impeccable and had tons of great tracks.

Elexen wrote:Dilla stayed down the hall from me for about a week on business and we hung out and smoked a blunt together

You smoked a blunt with Dilla. That is dope.

Elexen wrote:

WeHadNormality wrote:

Elexen wrote:produced by none other than Prince Paul

This too. Prince Paul is one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time imo. Have you ever heard his first release, Resident Alien -
It Takes a Nation of Suckas To Let Us In? You can tell he was drawing huge influence from Public Enemy (Bobmb Squad more specifically) at the time. It's sooo good.

Ha! You're the only other person who I've ever heard bring that up. Cheers to that.

My favorite producers from the 90's (till now) are probably (off the top of my head).....

DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Jazzy Jeff and DJ Muggs.

There are so many more but those guys are just fucking impeccable and had tons of great tracks.

Don't forget The Rza. He wrote a massive amount of good beats in the 90s.

And oh man, The Gravediggaz - Niggamortis (Six Feet Deep) too. Prince Paul and Rza together. That album is ridiculous.

WeHadNormality wrote:

Elexen wrote:

WeHadNormality wrote: This too. Prince Paul is one of the greatest hip hop producers of all time imo. Have you ever heard his first release, Resident Alien -
It Takes a Nation of Suckas To Let Us In? You can tell he was drawing huge influence from Public Enemy (Bobmb Squad more specifically) at the time. It's sooo good.

Ha! You're the only other person who I've ever heard bring that up. Cheers to that.

My favorite producers from the 90's (till now) are probably (off the top of my head).....

DJ Premier, Prince Paul, Pete Rock, Large Professor, Jazzy Jeff and DJ Muggs.

There are so many more but those guys are just fucking impeccable and had tons of great tracks.

Don't forget The Rza. He wrote a massive amount of good beats in the 90s.

And oh man, The Gravediggaz - Niggamortis (Six Feet Deep) too. Prince Paul and Rza together. That album is ridiculous.

I was gonna put RZA on my short list, I don't know why I hesitated. All the early Wu/solo records are staples. Gravediggaz first album is classic. That MC Paul Barman album is great too. He's a funny fucker and those beats are sick. Also, the first Handsome Boy Modeling School album that Paul and Dan the Automator did is crazy too.

Elexen wrote:

d e n wrote:Listen to this Jay Dee record and pay attention to the track Body Movin' there's a melody in there that everyone here will dig.

I was on a NYC based record label back in 2002 and Dilla stayed down the hall from me for about a week on business and we hung out and smoked a blunt together, I didn't really listen to Slum Village back then, I just thought that he a was cool dude. Also smoked a blunt with Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth, he was so chill and funny. Killa Priest was on the same label, so I hung with him on the regular that year. BTW, Priest just put out a great album called The Psychic World of Walter Reed. It's pretty sick.

All cool ass dudes. But I didn't realize that how sick Dilla was getting, he looked fine and didn't say nothing (why would he, I guess). When I think back it sorta blows my mind that I was hanging with a soon to be legend. Pretty neat.

ha, Greg Nice is sick... on this classic Gang Starr track called "Dwyck" as you probably know Smooth has the infamous line "I left my philly at home / do you have another? / I want to get blunted my brother"



listen though, I was only around 11 years old in 2002 and too young to have really seen Dilla when he was around. This makes me sad, but his music lives in my heart.

You smoked a blunt with Dilla. I cannot begin to express how amazing that is to me. And blunt or not, just having had the experience of casually chilling with him is amazing to me. And in 2002, you were already chilling with a legend.

I feel hyped to just know someone virtually on a Boards of Canada forum that smoked a blunt with Jay Dee. Thank you.

And yes, that Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 2 is undoubtedly in my top three favorite hip-hop records, if I had to choose in more detail, probably number one.

Re: Rza. I just saw Wu in Barcelona and the Rza is crazed. He was perpetually provoking mosh pits almost every ten minutes and throwing his still-smokable roaches into the crowd and sprayed one or two bottles of champagne into the audience. It was pretty awesome.

He is really talented... I am especially into his score for the movie Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker. Amazing film.

d e n wrote:

Elexen wrote:

d e n wrote:Listen to this Jay Dee record and pay attention to the track Body Movin' there's a melody in there that everyone here will dig.

I was on a NYC based record label back in 2002 and Dilla stayed down the hall from me for about a week on business and we hung out and smoked a blunt together, I didn't really listen to Slum Village back then, I just thought that he a was cool dude. Also smoked a blunt with Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth, he was so chill and funny. Killa Priest was on the same label, so I hung with him on the regular that year. BTW, Priest just put out a great album called The Psychic World of Walter Reed. It's pretty sick.

All cool ass dudes. But I didn't realize that how sick Dilla was getting, he looked fine and didn't say nothing (why would he, I guess). When I think back it sorta blows my mind that I was hanging with a soon to be legend. Pretty neat.

ha, Greg Nice is sick... on this classic Gang Starr track called "Dwyck" as you probably know Smooth has the infamous line "I left my philly at home / do you have another? / I want to get blunted my brother"



listen though, I was only around 11 years old in 2002 and too young to have really seen Dilla when he was around. This makes me sad, but his music lives in my heart.

You smoked a blunt with Dilla. I cannot begin to express how amazing that is to me. And blunt or not, just having had the experience of casually chilling with him is amazing to me. And in 2002, you were already chilling with a legend.

I feel hyped to just know someone virtually on a Boards of Canada forum that smoked a blunt with Jay Dee. Thank you.

And yes, that Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 2 is undoubtedly in my top three favorite hip-hop records, if I had to choose in more detail, probably number one.

Re: Rza. I just saw Wu in Barcelona and the Rza is crazed. He was perpetually provoking mosh pits almost every ten minutes and throwing his still-smokable roaches into the crowd and sprayed one or two bottles of champagne into the audience. It was pretty awesome.

He is really talented... I am especially into his score for the movie Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker. Amazing film.

That made me smile man, yeah, I've actually met a slew of artists from all different genre's in this crazy life so far. I'm 35, and was lucky enough to grow up with artistic parents. My father is a blues/rock 'n' roll guitarist named Sonny Kenn who is noted for helping create the Asbury music scene that Bruce Springsteen emerged from. My pop still rocks today. With that being said, I was raised on Blues and Rock 'n' Roll, and I was asking for different records as early as 5 years old. I got into hip-hop early: Kurtis Blow, UTFO, Ultramagnetic MC's, Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick ect... New Wave synth pop was cool at that time too, Gary Numan, Men Without Hats and Flock of Seaguls and shit like that. All big influences on me. A little later on, Rock started to really suck ass with all the Glam Metal, but Rap was in it's golden era and, man, I would find some shitty hustle, make a few bucks and buy every tape I could find. So much great hip hop, then Nirvana came out and broke the alternative revolution into the mainstream. My faith was restored in rock and roll. Great times for music. Around that time I bought a 4-track cassette recorder and started making my own shit that sounds similar, I would say, to Beck and Ween's early style, lo-fi experimental songwriting some with beats some just acoustic. So anyway, I started a grungy stomp rock band and we got signed a bit later around 2000.... that's when I was living in Manhattan in the Music Building and met Dilla, Greg Nice, Flavor Flav, Killa Priest a crap load of artist, rappers, rockers, producers and also dick heads. Dilla was very chill and laid back, my boy Johnny and I just kept running into him in the hall, we used to smell weed coming from his room... and he would smell it coming from ours...lol... so one day, we were drunk and just knocked on his door, (mind you, we didn't even know who he really was then, we just knew that they were "the guys from Slum Village" and I thought well, I saw that one video and it didn't suck so he must be cool. Well he was... we just smoked a blunt and hung out for about 2 hours blabbing about beats and shit. He was surprised I knew so much shit about old school hip hop for being a kid in a grunge band down the hall.. haha... Oh, and when I hung out with Greg Nice, I actually told him that his album "Aint' a Damn Thing Changed" and the Gang Star Dwyck joint was so dope and influenced me, he was really down to earth, and flattered. He was working on some solo tracks. Anyway, I'm just rambling now.... It's nice to tell someone who cares though

Elexen wrote:

d e n wrote:

Elexen wrote: I was on a NYC based record label back in 2002 and Dilla stayed down the hall from me for about a week on business and we hung out and smoked a blunt together, I didn't really listen to Slum Village back then, I just thought that he a was cool dude. Also smoked a blunt with Greg Nice from Nice and Smooth, he was so chill and funny. Killa Priest was on the same label, so I hung with him on the regular that year. BTW, Priest just put out a great album called The Psychic World of Walter Reed. It's pretty sick.

All cool ass dudes. But I didn't realize that how sick Dilla was getting, he looked fine and didn't say nothing (why would he, I guess). When I think back it sorta blows my mind that I was hanging with a soon to be legend. Pretty neat.

ha, Greg Nice is sick... on this classic Gang Starr track called "Dwyck" as you probably know Smooth has the infamous line "I left my philly at home / do you have another? / I want to get blunted my brother"



listen though, I was only around 11 years old in 2002 and too young to have really seen Dilla when he was around. This makes me sad, but his music lives in my heart.

You smoked a blunt with Dilla. I cannot begin to express how amazing that is to me. And blunt or not, just having had the experience of casually chilling with him is amazing to me. And in 2002, you were already chilling with a legend.

I feel hyped to just know someone virtually on a Boards of Canada forum that smoked a blunt with Jay Dee. Thank you.

And yes, that Slum Village Fantastic Vol. 2 is undoubtedly in my top three favorite hip-hop records, if I had to choose in more detail, probably number one.

Re: Rza. I just saw Wu in Barcelona and the Rza is crazed. He was perpetually provoking mosh pits almost every ten minutes and throwing his still-smokable roaches into the crowd and sprayed one or two bottles of champagne into the audience. It was pretty awesome.

He is really talented... I am especially into his score for the movie Ghost Dog with Forest Whitaker. Amazing film.

That made me smile man, yeah, I've actually met a slew of artists from all different genre's in this crazy life so far. I'm 35, and was lucky enough to grow up with artistic parents. My father is a blues/rock 'n' roll guitarist named Sonny Kenn who is noted for helping create the Asbury music scene that Bruce Springsteen emerged from. My pop still rocks today. With that being said, I was raised on Blues and Rock 'n' Roll, and I was asking for different records as early as 5 years old. I got into hip-hop early: Kurtis Blow, UTFO, Ultramagnetic MC's, Doug E Fresh and Slick Rick ect... New Wave synth pop was cool at that time too, Gary Numan, Men Without Hats and Flock of Seaguls and shit like that. All big influences on me. A little later on, Rock started to really suck ass with all the Glam Metal, but Rap was in it's golden era and, man, I would find some shitty hustle, make a few bucks and buy every tape I could find. So much great hip hop, then Nirvana came out and broke the alternative revolution into the mainstream. My faith was restored in rock and roll. Great times for music. Around that time I bought a 4-track cassette recorder and started making my own shit that sounds similar, I would say, to Beck and Ween's early style, lo-fi experimental songwriting some with beats some just acoustic. So anyway, I started a grungy stomp rock band and we got signed a bit later around 2000.... that's when I was living in Manhattan in the Music Building and met Dilla, Greg Nice, Flavor Flav, Killa Priest a crap load of artist, rappers, rockers, producers and also dick heads. Dilla was very chill and laid back, my boy Johnny and I just kept running into him in the hall, we used to smell weed coming from his room... and he would smell it coming from ours...lol... so one day, we were drunk and just knocked on his door, (mind you, we didn't even know who he really was then, we just knew that they were "the guys from Slum Village" and I thought well, I saw that one video and it didn't suck so he must be cool. Well he was... we just smoked a blunt and hung out for about 2 hours blabbing about beats and shit. He was surprised I knew so much shit about old school hip hop for being a kid in a grunge band down the hall.. haha... Oh, and when I hung out with Greg Nice, I actually told him that his album "Aint' a Damn Thing Changed" and the Gang Star Dwyck joint was so dope and influenced me, he was really down to earth, and flattered. He was working on some solo tracks. Anyway, I'm just rambling now.... It's nice to tell someone who cares though

nah, i enjoyed reading this. between my mom and dad I am from NJ/NYC too and my father played bass in a band throughout the 80's/90's and they eventually played bills with the jefferson starship/marty balin. it is awesome to have had that musical influence growing up -- even when the influence was unconscious. i can completely relate.

that's so funny to think about... how rock was terrible at the same time hip-hop was blossoming into something completely unique and amazing.

still though, i cannot relate to smoking a blunt with dilla. THAT IS SO ILL!. haha, holy! I cannot say it enough. thank you again for the anecdote.

d e n wrote:nah, i enjoyed reading this. between my mom and dad I am from NJ/NYC too and my father played bass in a band throughout the 80's/90's and they eventually played bills with the jefferson starship/marty balin. it is awesome to have had that musical influence growing up -- even when the influence was unconscious. i can completely relate.

that's so funny to think about... how rock was terrible at the same time hip-hop was blossoming into something completely unique and amazing.

still though, i cannot relate to smoking a blunt with dilla. THAT IS SO ILL!. haha, holy! I cannot say it enough. thank you again for the anecdote.

Cool shit. Music is life

All that Dilla talk makes me feel feelings. Donuts is seriously one of those albums that in the right circumstances will bring me close to tears, which considering it's a damn beat tape (I know that's oversimplifying things, but still) is rather unheard of. There's so much soul and personality in every song, and you can hear the work that went into it, and all those little messages he puts in, like he's talking to his friends and family (and fans) for the last time...