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Summary: A VERY good and historically influential turntablist album, but overall it's uneven - 4.5 stars
Comment: There are some GREAT tracks on this CD but overall it's very uneven. The Tracks "French Quarter", "Black Buddah", "Ron's House", "Michelle", "Soul-Kissing" and "Afronautical" are all very interesting and fun, with the rest being pretty forgettable and standard fare. The album is a pretty good listen all the way through, but as far as songs that you're going to listen to repeatedly the songs I listed above are pretty much it. With 6 out of the 15 tracks being very good and the rest admirable (also its historical influence bumps it up to a 4.5 - a lot of artists sample "French Quarter", for example) I would recommend this to anyone interested in turntablism or hip-hop.
Highlights include:
"French Quarter"
"Black Buddah"
"Ron's House"
"Michelle"
"Soul-Kissing"
"Afronautical"
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Summary: Are you kidding?
Comment: I am a fan of just about every style of turntable music, but this record is really bad. It's not wierd enough to be avant-garde, it's not slick enough to be jazz and it's not beat enough to be funky. Buy Pimp Daddy Nash or St Germain or CPEN and you'll be a lot happier than if you bought this mess. And if you want just ambient strange sounds -try DJ Spooky.
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Summary: infusion
Comment: of jazz cultured instrumentation with beats and scratching that make a turntablist eclectic for the ear and stepping mind. I listen to this music which is only seasoned with words here and there in some tracks, and the music flows into change using several sounds and pulls...it gets me thinking. It doesn't train me what to think. That's why I like it. If you like things with a beat that make you want to bop your head and have a flare of jazz in your step. Check it out.
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Summary: Could Be Up Your Alley; Too Mature for Me
Comment: I only know Logic from this album and I must say he is not cutting things up too hard here. Most of the stuff here is at about the energy level of Air or like the mellower cuts on the last DJ Shadow record. This is not rowdy enough stuff for my taste. I was looking for a crazier turntablist pastiche, ala Peanut Butter Wolf or Australia's The Avalanches. If you want nutty cuts that are surprising and will move your feet and have strong beats, check out towards the end of the album, the cuts Hip-Hopera and Miles Away, which is all full of "Sketches of Spain" horns. Those two have me making spastic motions on the train if I have the headphones on but the rest of the album is for Medeski, Martin, and Wood fans only. Medeski actually guests on a track or two here even.
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Summary: DJ Logic's colorful spin on jazz
Comment: I saw DJ Logic open for the Dave Matthews Band, and I immediately knew that this is an artist worth checking into. Along with the music, seeing people dancing in their seats was what sold me. 'The Anomaly' basically captures the improvisational spirit of jazz, the groovy rhythms of funk, all under the framework of instrumental hip-hop. Just think St Germain meets RJD2 meets Cut Chemist. Blended into the mix is everything from Miles Davis trumpet bursts, Sly Stone basslines, to DJ turntable scratching. DJ Logic achieves the ultimate celebratory experience...turntabilism you can dance to.
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