Madlib's Blue Note record - boring or tasteful?

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I have a really hard time deciding. Help me, guys. Or am I just being polite to the man? I guess so - it's really fucking boring!

― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

It can't be both?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a difference?

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:46 (twenty-two years ago)

according to junkmedia, it's album of the week:
http://www.junkmedia.org/?i=772

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:48 (twenty-two years ago)

i guess it can be both, but is there anything in there working against the boredom? og is this record simply as boring as tipper gore's entire cd collection?

― Jay K (Jay K), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

no there is not. that's what's wrong with it.

― M Matos (M Matos), Monday, 28 July 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

there's my prejudices confirmed then...thanks guys.
next!

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:08 (twenty-two years ago)

In some respects this is all a variant of the 'Tasty Licks' axiom (ie, someone describes something to me as having 'tasty licks' = I am inclined to think it is pigswill).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:54 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah.
'dusty breaks'

― gaz (gaz), Monday, 28 July 2003 22:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"blazing "
"jazzy "
"dusted"

adjectives that signify AVOID in my experience.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 28 July 2003 23:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The problem too is that there's nothing surprising about this - people have been using Blue Note stuff for beats for as long as there have been beats to make (one of the best bass lines on the Madlib album was already used by Tribe Called Quest, etc.).

I want to hear an ECM remix record. And not just "glacial music + beats." I want someone to really mess with their catalog.

― Chris Dahlen (Chris Dahlen), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I want a Dave Holland remix album (remixes of Dave Holland, not by him, although that could be cool too, if the Dave Holland Big Band took on M.O.P.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

can someone post a tracklisting plz?

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

john l walters is the only music writer on the guardian worth reading. he absolutely f***in' pasted this and i agree with him - it's bollocks...

www.guardian.co.uk/arts/fridayreview/story/0,12102,990327,00.html

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 29 July 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, that review is pretty much on the mark. you cant deny madlib a small handful of moments of excellence, though ...

― Jay K (Jay K), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 07:39 (twenty-two years ago)

... which can be heard on the Jaylib, Madvillian and Dudley Perkins albums.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 09:21 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing is i actually quite like him and quasimoto's the unseen is prob one of my fave hip hop albums evah, plus i loved the whole idea of the yesterday's new quintet (actual work slightly less so, but it was still good). the thing is, this record could be really decent but sounds hurried, ill-thought, anaemic and irrefutably dud... it's not that i wanted to hatre it, just that i was really disappointed by it and that's much, much worse...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

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