And the promo stuff for the Rels album is working the nu-jazz tag hard. But I like it a lot anyway. It's cool. Great beats.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:37 (nineteen years ago) link
Agreed. Or he at least should, y'know, actually practice and learn how to play keyboards before releasing any more of that material.
― oops (Oops), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― dickvandyke (dickvandyke), Sunday, 20 June 2004 21:40 (nineteen years ago) link
the man behind funkaho also did the best zine of all time "jank"
― ddd, Monday, 21 June 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
D: Yesterday's New Quintet, Breakestra, etc.
Also, I have Funky 16 Corners and it's kinda cool.
― mcd (mcd), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 21 June 2004 19:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― cs appleby (cs appleby), Thursday, 25 November 2004 04:19 (nineteen years ago) link
i have the Oh No album (Madlibs bro) whcih has some superb tracks as well as filler .. and then there is the return of Quasimoto soon. i never heard the unseen album .. but i have the new ep .. aint sure what i think just yet .. its a mixture of superb loops and the trademark helium vocals which i suspect after a few spins could really annoy ..
anyone jumped on the recent cd/DVD set .. worthy of hardearned ?
or a one spin only DVD ?
also .. my copy of Vinyl Weighs a ton is on Copastetik recordings - not Stonesthrow .. did Stones reissue it ?
so much. so little time..
― mark e (mark e), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:26 (nineteen years ago) link
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008V5YB.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:38 (sixteen years ago) link
doesn't percee p have a record coming out on stone's throw?
― M@tt He1ges0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
lol dj dee on this thread
Anyway yeah the Charizma and Peanut Butter Wolf album is terrific, and the description of it above is ridiculously dead-on. The first thing I thought of was Big L minus the new york thug posturing.
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
scott seward...why the revulsion towards "jazzy" hip-hop? I hate the words used as a description because they are woefully inadequate to describe sample based early 90s hip-hop and are rock critic terms. It seems to me like you might be reacting more to the critical diction rather than the actually music.
7 years later and i still listen to this album:
http://www.stonesthrow.com/images/djdesign/DJDESIGN.gatharound.400.jpg
― scott seward, Sunday, 26 August 2007 16:55 (sixteen years ago) link
i think i still have that wildchild cd somewhere. and there is one declaime(dudley perkins?) song thats good.
― artdamages, Sunday, 26 August 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, how we used to talk
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
theres like 30 threads from 2004 where you get butthurt by standard ilm dismissal of jazzrap
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
its still weird to me dudes call things 'jazz rap' that arent jazzmatazz or the first digable planets album.
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:13 (sixteen years ago) link
-- djdee2005, Sunday, June 20, 2004 4:23 PM
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:20 (sixteen years ago) link
You critizie our method of how we make records you said it wasn't art, so now we're gonna rip you apart Stop, check it out my man This is the music of a hip-hop band Jazz, well you can call it that But this jazz retains a new format Point, where you misjudged us Speculated, created a fuss You've made the same mistake politicians have Talkin' all that jazz
― artdamages, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
-- am0n, Sunday, August 26, 2007 6:20 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link
thats cuz hes next-level
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:22 (sixteen years ago) link
or maybe my sn wasn't intended to remind you what year it was
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:31 (sixteen years ago) link
deej defends 2004 screenname in shocking rebuttal to am0n
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:46 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i was like 'what AM i doing w/ myself' and then i wondered how u justify spending this time either
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:51 (sixteen years ago) link
what was it intended to remind one of if not the year 2005
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:52 (sixteen years ago) link
is this a good time to also ask about Al's "sitcom" and "hotelopera" screennames
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 18:55 (sixteen years ago) link
so ahead of my time my parents haven't met yet
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:01 (sixteen years ago) link
haha i was thinking about the logic of that line last night. why would his parents be meeting in the future? he'd have to be before his time
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:07 (sixteen years ago) link
i've got nothing to say about stone's throw
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:08 (sixteen years ago) link
'sitcom' refers to al's love for the mid 90s nbc show 'hope and gloria' & 'hotel opera' is some shitty indie rock album he likes
― and what, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:18 (sixteen years ago) link
will your interview with Al appear in print somewhere?
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 19:23 (sixteen years ago) link
look for it here
― am0n, Sunday, 26 August 2007 21:16 (sixteen years ago) link
will i find the 'zing' missing from that post there as well?
― deej, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:02 (sixteen years ago) link
ilm rap dudes a++++++++++ best posters on the board
― max, Sunday, 26 August 2007 22:23 (sixteen years ago) link
al, did you like townies?
― artdamages, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:48 (sixteen years ago) link
Kate & Ally < Mork & Mindy < Hope & Gloria
― artdamages, Monday, 27 August 2007 16:54 (sixteen years ago) link
suddenly susan
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:05 (sixteen years ago) link
caroline in the city
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
forgot about Pride & Joy
― artdamages, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
the single guy
jonathan silverman keep ya head up
― M@tt He1ges0n, Monday, 27 August 2007 17:22 (sixteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F1KT7FzHL._AA280_.jpg
it's out now ..... I like it. madlib keeps it pretty simple on the production, just basic james brown type loops, and keyboards that have that 8-bit squashed through an SP sound
new version of Put It On the Line kinda sucks though, the 12-inch is way better
― dmr, Saturday, 20 October 2007 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
the koushik stones throw podcast is pretty lush... i think he has an album out later this year, and i love his work: splicing late 80s hip-hop sounds to late 60s harmony-heavy psychedelia, like Madlib if all he was sampling from was countless different versions of the soundtrack to Hair.
― stevie, Friday, 18 July 2008 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I plan to listen to his album in the next hour. I got it in the post yesterday and thought, wtf is this doing on Stones Throw - that said the press release makes it sound like more of a Panda Bear type thing so I dunno.
Stones Throw are also doing an anthology thing of Arabian Prince which I'm trying to snag a promo of at the mo, it sounds really good
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
destroy a lot.
― mr x, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:12 (fifteen years ago) link
koushiks 1st album was pretty dope
― and what, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:16 (fifteen years ago) link
also did the best madvillain rmx
― and what, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm guessing he's on Stones Throw cause he knows Peanut Butter Wolf. that Percee P album has some great moments, but it's a lil too much to take all in one sitting. Which is how I expected a Percee album to be.
i really like a couple Koushik tracks, didn't notice he did a podcast. it's of his songs?
xposts
― Granny Dainger, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
his remixes of hip-hop tracks... is very good.
mancap - rocketscience are promoing the arabian prince, it is awes, we were playing it incessantly in plan b offices last week. who is doing koushik???
― stevie, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:37 (fifteen years ago) link
In House Press. They've sent it almost three months early. Weird.
Based on the first few tracks of this album I could see this blowing up by the end of the year
― DJ Mencap, Friday, 18 July 2008 13:44 (fifteen years ago) link
i shall seek it out - i can totally see koushik crossing over; i love his stuff.
does anybody have the stones throw 2005 sampler? anyone know who the nameless (presumably 70s/80s) funk artist who mumbles drunkenly for ages after the 'strange games' remix is? it's like some funk blooper or something, but i have, of occasion, become obsessed with this weird vignette.
― stevie, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
koushik's album is the best thing stonesthrow released there I said it
― uh oh I'm having a fantasy, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:05 (fifteen years ago) link
What About You (In The World Today) by Co Real Artists was on my wedding playlist -- sort of my little sly jab at adulthood I guess
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17367-alone-together/
has anyone heard thisi can imagine a karriem riggins beattape being just what i need but i don't know, & i feel like it's the kinda thing i'd have to live with rather than hear to suss out
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Friday, 9 November 2012 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
it's as hit and miss and all over the place as you'd expect, enough amazing moments to make it a keeper though. k. riffins and tom tom are both awesome. lots of wonky moog lushness and a bob moog shoutout iirc
― Crackle Box, Friday, 9 November 2012 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
this is fun, http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2012/06/stones-throw-podcast-74
― ~bacon trailblazer~ (schlump), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
The Stepkids album really stands up...love the P-funk vocal stylings on 'Brain Ninja'...the track they released late last year sounds really promising too...
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Thursday, 24 January 2013 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
a little late, but I love this video, and song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ahYMQA8TY
― huun huurt 2 (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 17:36 (ten years ago) link
Neat Steely Dan-esque track from forthcoming stepkids record
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-stepkids-ponder-lifes-gambles-in-the-lottery-song-premiere-20130611
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 14:56 (ten years ago) link
I'm looking forward to the doc
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 14:58 (ten years ago) link
alright listened to this stepkids track and ya
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 12 June 2013 16:50 (ten years ago) link
the stepkids album is glorious
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (stevie), Tuesday, 9 July 2013 21:39 (ten years ago) link
Really looking forward to this...loved the first album...'Sweet Salvation' and 'The Lottery' are sooo good
― The Pastiche Liberation Front (sonnyboy), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 07:44 (ten years ago) link
diff between this and first album is like the diff between the b&w and colour scenes in wizard of oz
― Puff Daddy, whoever the fuck you are. I am dissapoint. (stevie), Wednesday, 10 July 2013 08:24 (ten years ago) link
http://www.spin.com/articles/the-stepkids-troubadour-stones-throw-album-stream/ stepkids streamin here
memoirs of grey and the lottery are completely amazing but everything else is kinda so so on first listen
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
should I post this on the R&B thread?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 3 September 2013 22:24 (ten years ago) link
It's a grower, maybe. It's one of my favourites of the year.
― Ottworks SKG (stevie), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 06:47 (ten years ago) link
really like this stepkids album
― the late great, Saturday, 14 September 2013 17:39 (ten years ago) link
really good, lilys vibe, other things as well, great listen anyway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgiTkd0AQRQ
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 14 September 2013 22:22 (ten years ago) link
really glad that stonesthrow is sometimes just putting out whatever the fuck they feel like now, kind of like numero group putting out those unwound reissues or whatever
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Saturday, 14 September 2013 22:25 (ten years ago) link
New Karriem Riggins - Headnod Suite is good stuff
― Carlotta's Portrait (Ross), Friday, 3 March 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link
The Gabriel Garzon Montano album is so great - like weird early 70s soul (Shuggie Otis, Fulfillingness-era Stevie) shot through with some Til I Die-era Brian Wilson melancholy
― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Friday, 3 March 2017 09:53 (seven years ago) link
totally agree and was wondering if i had started a thread for this guy yet. apparently not.
https://www.npr.org/templates/event/embeddedVideo.php?storyId=529874786&mediaId=530052899
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 26 May 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
cyclist "bones in motion" is full of spiffy melted C60 warehouse pacman toe tappers.dj rels album super untouchable my most played of 2017
― massaman gai, Friday, 26 May 2017 18:40 (six years ago) link
there's a new dj rels??
― pickety third (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
ps that's a bee gees rhythm machine just over gabriel's left shoulder in that video above
― pickety third (stevie), Friday, 26 May 2017 21:16 (six years ago) link
no new dj rels, i just picked it up late, blown away.love the way the cyclist disc is equal parts stock aitken waterman & _:zoviet*france:_
― massaman gai, Saturday, 27 May 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link
Boleros Valses y Mas by Frankie Reyes is a nice, if weird record, basically boleros and waltzes played in MIDI-simplicity on an analog synth
― niels, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 14:19 (five years ago) link