Back to burn one
I spent part of the morning checking out Starlito a/k/a All Star's latest free album, the really enjoyable I Still Love You: Live from the Back of the Class. (Download here.)
I like Starlito's sleepy flow, he's a good lyricist and he chooses beats well. It's just good rap music.
The album was assembled by Atlanta's DJ Burn One, who runs the excellent BLVD ST blog, which rides about as hard as anybody for country rap tunes. Burn One has put together a number of great unmixed artist mixtapes this year, like KD's Soul Inn and G-Mane's Sunday on Da Porch and Smoke Some Kill.
He has also has made some of my favorite beats this year under his production alias, Mick Vegas, producing for rappers like G-Side, KD, Pill and P.Dukes. A lot of his productions are sample-based and sound pretty simple, but he chooses great loops and hooks them up well-- they frequently send me running over to my record room to track down a song I haven't listened to in way too long.
Case in point, this one from G-Mane's recent Sunday on Da Porch, which was entirely produced by Mick Vegas:
G-Mane: "Light Up" (2009)
I recognized the Hi Records snare sound but couldn't remember who the artist was, which gave me a great excuse to revisit some records from Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, etc. until I heard what I was looking for:
Syl Johnson: "Steppin' Out" (Hi, 1975)
BTW, I'm super-juiced for the Numero Group's forthcoming 4-CD/6-LP anthology of Syl Johnson's 1959-1972 output. Apparently they've got 20 unreleased songs and I trust the booklet, packaging, etc. will be up to their usual, stellar standards.
I like Starlito's sleepy flow, he's a good lyricist and he chooses beats well. It's just good rap music.
The album was assembled by Atlanta's DJ Burn One, who runs the excellent BLVD ST blog, which rides about as hard as anybody for country rap tunes. Burn One has put together a number of great unmixed artist mixtapes this year, like KD's Soul Inn and G-Mane's Sunday on Da Porch and Smoke Some Kill.
He has also has made some of my favorite beats this year under his production alias, Mick Vegas, producing for rappers like G-Side, KD, Pill and P.Dukes. A lot of his productions are sample-based and sound pretty simple, but he chooses great loops and hooks them up well-- they frequently send me running over to my record room to track down a song I haven't listened to in way too long.
Case in point, this one from G-Mane's recent Sunday on Da Porch, which was entirely produced by Mick Vegas:
G-Mane: "Light Up" (2009)
I recognized the Hi Records snare sound but couldn't remember who the artist was, which gave me a great excuse to revisit some records from Ann Peebles, O.V. Wright, etc. until I heard what I was looking for:
Syl Johnson: "Steppin' Out" (Hi, 1975)
BTW, I'm super-juiced for the Numero Group's forthcoming 4-CD/6-LP anthology of Syl Johnson's 1959-1972 output. Apparently they've got 20 unreleased songs and I trust the booklet, packaging, etc. will be up to their usual, stellar standards.
posted by Matthew at
11:00 PM
2 Comments:
Mick Vegas put that old school flavour in his cooking... For me it's OK, I really love is work...For me, one of the best producers of 2009... Happy New Year! Your blog is cool...
FrenchDaddy
Blighty, thanks for the idea-- I'll definitely be doing a good one in the next few weeks, once I've got some other stuff out of the way and had a chance to filter through all the WM productions I don't know. He had such a great sound.
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