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Andrew Korenchkin

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Koozek said:
Yeah, surprisingly I'm really enjoying it. It's a very easy listen, fun production. I somehow had this preconception of YG being Pop-Rap garbage like Tyga and I don't know where it came from (maybe he improved since then?). I even convinced a friend of mine who at first said that YG is wack to give the album a second listen and now he likes it, too. Oh, and I only now realized that My N***a was by him, lol. Was jamming a lot to one of its remixes years ago.
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T Dollarz said:
I felt this way after my first listen. It's just a fun, groovy, west coast groove. Goes by real quick too. I always cut the album off after the title track tho.
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YG definitely goes back to the early 90's West Coast for me, for some reason. Glad I listened to it and didn't give into the preconceptions like Koozek said.

Curious for everyone here. What would you give Donuts out of? At first, I thought it was pretty disjointed and lost interested in the album after Lightworks, but it's really starting to grow on me. It's kind of like his production in general, it doesn't hit you right away.
 
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Koozek

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Andrew Korenchkin said:
YG definitely goes back to the early 90's West Coast for me, for some reason. Glad I listened to it and didn't give into the preconceptions like Koozek said.

Curious for everyone here. What would you give Donuts out of? At first, I thought it was pretty disjointed and lost interested in the album after Lightworks, but it's really starting to grow on me. It's kind of like his production in general, it doesn't hit you right away.
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It's not my favorite Dilla album and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants to get to know his work, as it's not really his typical sound, but it definitely has some wonderful joints and the overall concept/sound is so coherent. It's the story behind the record that makes it so special (Dilla literally producing parts of it on his deathbed and then it being released 3 days before his death).

Just today I was listening to the Pharcyde tracks he produced on Labcabincalifornia, such classics. Little fun-fact: apparently 2Pac's Do For Love sampled Dilla's Y? (Be Like That) remix.

The beat tapes from the mid-90's I finally found 2 years ago are so, so dope. Some of his rawest beats. Look for "What Up Doe Sessions (1996)", "1997 Batch", "The New Slave (Beat Tape)", "SV Tour Beat CD" and "Dimensions of Dilla".

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Andrew Korenchkin

Andrew Korenchkin

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Koozek said:
It's not my favorite Dilla album and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wants to get to know his work, as it's not really his typical sound, but it definitely has some wonderful joints and the overall concept/sound is so coherent. It's the story behind the record that makes it so special (Dilla literally producing parts of it on his deathbed and then it being released 3 days before his death).

Just today I was listening to the Pharcyde tracks he produced on Labcabincalifornia, such classics. Little fun-fact: apparently 2Pac's Do For Love sampled Dilla's Y? (Be Like That) remix.

The beat tapes from the mid-90's I finally found 2 years ago are so, so dope. Some of his rawest beats. Look for "What Up Doe Sessions (1996)", "1997 Batch", "The New Slave (Beat Tape)", "SV Tour Beat CD" and "Dimensions of Dilla".

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It's definitely a very personal record, which is one reason why it works so well; its intent is well beyond a less personal intent. Still, I think Dilla's best beat, at least for me, is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oW0VgyfJCs

Man, I really need to listen to Pharcyde's second album some time. Their debut is actually my second favorite rap album of all time, but while their second album is different in tone, they did something really creative with that one.

Koozek said:
Btw, new Vice video on Yung Lean just came out:

Looking to a Happy Future with Yung Lean: Noisey Raps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13dpFrFw8gM
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LOL, want to fuck mountains.

I really want to visit Sweden sometime. Opeth is from there, after all. And Carcass. And Entombed. And Luciferion. And Candlemass. And a million other amazing Metal bands.
 
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Koozek

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Andrew Korenchkin said:
It's definitely a very personal record, which is one reason why it works so well; its intent is well beyond a less personal intent. Still, I think Dilla's best beat, at least for me, is this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oW0VgyfJCs

Man, I really need to listen to Pharcyde's second album some time. Their debut is actually my second favorite rap album of all time, but while their second album is different in tone, they did something really creative with that one.
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Okay, that's an odd choice. Some of my faves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjUZ3_NQ1Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvYKzOihf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TRzd0xgSQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKd_zedlgoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEBwyTBDJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0c_IHOJvu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCQpsrji2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMOcAiiNps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMpdhJmplM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsiDXyLEpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1blQpf3lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh773WuPqq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUARsxfJyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzoPvOAsuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlWLMfKyyM

But I honestly can't just decide on a few, there are so many beats I love. And these were only instrumentals, I didn't even start listing some of the great full songs he produced.
 
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Fjordson

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thabiz said:
Bones redeemed. Last couple have been meh at best, and the teamsesh comp was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Yeah was excited about team sesh tape, but I've listened to it once since it came out I think I'm good.

Agreed on PP2 also. Definitely the best out of the last few Bones releases (though I thought Useless wasn't bad).
 
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thabiz

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Fjordson said:
Yeah was excited about team sesh tape, but I've listened to it once since it came out I think I'm good.

Agreed on PP2 also. Definitely the best out of the last few Bones releases (though I thought Useless wasn't bad).
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A lot of the sesh producers have become extremely stagnant with their growth as artists. I think a bunch have hit their ceiling.
 
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Koozek

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HiResDes said:
I'll recommend American Muscle again, really chill west-coast shit, kind of in the same vein as the Payroll Giovanni.

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Mhmm, sounds nice. Will check out.

Dude, sincere thanks for your recs here. You shaped a lot of my list this year. And to others, too, of course. You know who you are
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Andrew Korenchkin

Andrew Korenchkin

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Koozek said:
Okay, that's an odd choice. Some of my faves:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjUZ3_NQ1Tc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buvYKzOihf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TRzd0xgSQk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKd_zedlgoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEBwyTBDJk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0c_IHOJvu0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CCQpsrji2g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCMOcAiiNps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruMpdhJmplM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdsiDXyLEpc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1blQpf3lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh773WuPqq8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WUARsxfJyQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBzoPvOAsuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENlWLMfKyyM

But I honestly can't just decide on a few, there are so many beats I love. And these were only instrumentals, I didn't even start listing some of the great full songs he produced.
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This is a damn good sample, though a lot of these I haven't heard yet. Speaking of which though, I think I liked the Jaylib track the best. You just reminded me I really need to listen to that album.
 
Tokubetsu

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thabiz said:
A lot of the sesh producers have become extremely stagnant with their growth as artists. I think a bunch have hit their ceiling.
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Yeah they don't seem interested in trying anything new at all really. Quite a bew of Bones' best stuff in the last few tapes were done by dudes outside of Sesh.
 
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thabiz

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Fjordson said:
I could see that. Recently nothing from them really sticks with me outside of Bones.
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I couldn't even make it half way through the comp. Ghost/ghoul and vegard veslelia are the only two right now worth checking out.

Everyone else outside of a track here and there has become boring as fuck. Most are very one dimensional
 
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Koozek

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Andrew Korenchkin said:
This is a damn good sample, though a lot of these I haven't heard yet. Speaking of which though, I think I liked the Jaylib track the best. You just reminded me I really need to listen to that album.
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I have over 1000 Dilla tracks on my drive. I'm pretty sure I now have every Dilla beat tape that's out there, especially after the old, unreleased ones I mentioned above, which are ripped from cassettes (some of them sound extremely dirty and distorted, but it honestly makes them ever rawer). Only found them two years ago after having looked for them years before that already.

Only one which I can find videos on YouTube of is the 1997 Batch, but only half of it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCzs3MHx6M99-sTiQFzEJl1PsELkyrlMV
 
Andrew Korenchkin

Andrew Korenchkin

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Koozek said:
I have over 1000 Dilla tracks on my drive. I'm pretty sure I now have every Dilla beat tape that's out there, especially after the old, unreleased ones I mentioned above, which are ripped from cassettes (some of them sound extremely dirty and distorted, but it honestly makes them ever rawer). Only found them two years ago after having looked for them years before that already.

Only one which I can find videos on YouTube of is the 1997 Batch, but only half of it:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCzs3MHx6M99-sTiQFzEJl1PsELkyrlMV
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!!!!
 
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Vorheez

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HiResDes said:
Was very into it at one time, my senior thesis paper was based around a comparison of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and ancient Buddhist text. I'm more of an all out atheist now though. It's a beautiful religion aside from the misogyny that plagues all major religions.
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Yeah, see, I wasn't aware of the misogyny... That's too bad. It's things like that which hold me back. Thanks for the info though Des!

Your thesis paper sounds really interesting too, what did you go to school for?
 
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FZZ

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Man the quality on this new Flocka is ass just like the initial release of 1.5

The songs would bump so hard

It's 2016 Flocka

Gucci is free

Don't do this to me
 
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