S/D: Stones Throw Records

I thought most of the ones on the album were pretty zzz but it's been a while since I heard it. The stevie wonder tribute I like the most is the beat for Great Day. Also, my favorite color is blue.

is there any reason to recommend this "james pants" thing?

yes, the james pants lp is solid ... different but not too quirky, old school sounding yet fresh, plays with different genres yet flows really well ... a great record. his rhythm trax stuff is good too. it's basically him coming up with a follow-up to the original jive rhythm trax series.

The new electro-funk direction Stones Throw is taking is sounding good to my ears ... James Pants, Dam Funk, the Arabian Prince comp ... and hopefully more to come in that vein.

I'm co-producing the next rhythm trax. yes!

i can totally see koushik crossing over; i love his stuff.

― stevie, Friday, 18 July 2008 16:24 (2 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Still waiting for this to happen, I dunno what the holdup is - biggest amount of press I've seen so far was in the Graun and was by, er, Stevie

I kind of like Yesterdays New Quintet. It's the kind of thing I never, ever put on but when it comes up on shuffle I always prick up my ears.

POLL - DEATHROW VS STONESTHROW

dam funk is the shit. maybe should have his own thread???

i dig this guy a ton. wish this is what that last motown inspired Raphael Saadiq album sounded like. dam is in the vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKx8PyE5qQ

I just discovered Franklin Thompson. I have been totally digging his Planet Jumpers track. So fucking A W E S O M E.

AND DINOSAUR! Amazing shit.

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/images/product/detail/planet-jumper.jpg

really enjoying mayer hawthorne.

and how good does their new psych comp "forge your own chains" look?

the song "get your money right" by strong arm steady was a recent st podcast and is a really wonderful song. there was a dam-funk gospel funk podcast back in july, that was hot too.

"and how good does their new psych comp "forge your own chains" look?"

I ordered it last week. The DR Hooker, Top Drawer and Baby Grandmothers songs are ace, I bet the rest is even better.

the two tracks I've heard from the new Strong Arm Steady are AWESOME. pretty excited for that record

ha I see I said something a week ago about that. new one came in last night as a podcast. fuckin' awesome stuff imo

listening to the damfunk album now...very weird, it's got a lot of bleedthrough with 80s cassette fetishist types like James Ferraro imo but the sounds are clear not muddied - kinda love it, it seems really dense/rich in some way

oh yeah moonship journey if you haven't heard this I have a feeling it's up your alley

dam funk is so fabulous. this whole label... i seem to love *everything they do.

theres a thread on df
thread of DâM-FunK

aha I searched but w/o the right punctuation, thanks deej, saw yr write-up of the single, for some reason I am stoked when we groove on the same stuff so I was like "fuck yeah"

yeeah, the SAS stuff is really really good. just reviewed "Get Started" for xlr8r. it is some sickness. you can DL free here: http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/10/strong-arm-steady-talib-kweli-get-started

okay, so SAS is aces too, going by the st podcast. loving 'get ya money right'.

haven't really paid too much attention to stonesthrow in the past year or two but I want to buy that psych comp

CHRONDON

sry, its KRONDON

this looks sweet as hell, brah

http://www.stonesthrow.com/news/2009/10/mr-chop-for-petes-sake

No mention of the Red "I Should Tell Ya Momma On You" single? You sicken me, Stones Throw thread.

...or wait, that's not on Stones Throw proper is it? OK, I am less sickened now.

WAIT NO never mind, it's just the copyright on the digital release, the 7" is on Stones Throw! SICKENED AGAIN

The list of upcoming stuff from the latest mailer:

Dec: James Pants - Seven Seals (info & MP3)
Dec: Madlib's Medicine Show (info & MP3)
2010: J.Rocc - Some Cold Rock Stuf
2010: Aloe Blacc - new album
2010: The Inpiration of Fela Kuti, 4x10" box set on Now-Again (preview)
2010: Strong Arm Steady & Madlib collab (info)
2010: Minimal Wave compilation (preview)
2010: Guilty Simpson & Madlib - OJ Simpson (info)
2010: Bruce Haack vocodor anthology
2010: Tony Cook anthology
2010: Matthew Larkin Cassell anthology (info)

Looking forward to the Haack comp. Also, I know nothing about Minimal Wave except that they put out an Oppenheimer Analysis reissue 12". If there's more where that came from, I can't wait.

that matthew larkin cassell album is one of the most beautiful things EVER with a really great digging story behind it.

http://magazine.jamsbio.com/2008/09/16/crate-digging-gold-matthew-larkin-cassell/

surprised they're getting into the minimal wave game. doesn't seem black enough for them

The minimal wave comp shall be dope. Stones Throw mantra has always been from what I have seen- "We put out what we like".

what is "minimal wave"?

i guess i meant more minimal synth. it's like minimal, obscure new wave. lots belgian acts. i guess Minimal Wave is a label putting out new and reissues of this kinda stuff.

this was released on minimal wave. so dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McREjJic-fA

ugh why is everything on that minimal wave label so awesome yet so expensive

xp okay that does seem weird for ST to be getting into

Quality vinyl prints w/ small runs + fetish tendencies maybe? xp

ok Dr No's Ethiopium is fucking great

looks great

the new james pants is great. sounds like a mixture of ariel pink and john maus. also, he is channeling some strange religious vibe, i can tell he has been listening to a lot of the christian psych stuff ( dr hooker, azitis) and somehow mixing that with his usual electro/soul/post punk tendencies. its fucked up in a good way...i think the people who expect more of the last record the quirky hip/hop/party/electro stuff will def hate it... he's gone somewhere else with this one.

electrosoul

hope you're right about the Ethiopium, I wanted to like the Oxperiments album but it was pretty arduous. Couple good beats though. When a couple stonesthrow ppl + cut chemist opened for Mulatu this year, they were all fuckin great.

especially Quantic

Oscar you are making it sound like the new album takes after the Psychick Almanack mixtape which is making me VERY excited

http://www.stonesthrow.com/store/album/various/brazilian-guitar-fuzz-bananas

Exclusively distributed by Stones Throw Records. Can't wait!

so damn good

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/news/3bb25b354e689f6d04435207835162c2.jpg

guess paul whites plan to release limited edition albums/singles full of cut-n-paste samples (e.g)to get attention paid off then.

lol I'm not sure it "paid off" given that the above is a free podcast