Actor/producer/musician Yaphet Kotto laid down this dark slice of soul in 1968 via the Chisa label. Proto-rap in its delivery, "Have You Ever Seen The Blues" rides the cymbals like Max Roach, all percussive piano with Kotto spitting lines like "..and all the while visions of suicide were boogalooin' in your head and you was [...]
24-Carat Black's Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth has proven to be another excellent example of Hip-Hop breathing life into an important but overlooked album. Thanks in part to resurgent interest in the group from crate diggers and Hip-Hop junkies, a collection of later recordings by the group was released in 2009 by Numero group, the same company suing The Throne over "Otis" on behalf of Syl Johnson. Former Motown arranger Dale Warren recruited the group, then composed and arranged their only [...]
The //word// of the day is Juxtaposition. Ideas contrasted against others are what create friction, or heat. Temperature is a tricky thing to measure, because any difference in temperature is an heat /energy gain or an heat/energy loss. What you feel is not hot or cold, but the loss or gain of energy, or the flow of heat. Just basic thermodynamics. Some materials are more conductive to the flow of heat than others. Ok. So whats with the juxtaposition of ideas? Oh yeah, they create friction, which creates heat, which is energy. Its not about too much or too little, [...]
Haven't professed my undying love for the Numero Group lately, but I scampering about my "Date Added" tab in the old I-Tunes, and came across this album I snatched from a co-worker a few weeks back. Numero Group's been putting together some decidedly different bits of goodness over the last few months (hell, Pisces' freak [...]
If I had an extra minute to spare I would seriously consider starting another blog focused strictly on covering the growing number of on-point reissue labels that have popped up the past several years. One of these, a front-runner I must feature on AD close to six times a year, is the Chicago based Numero [...]
24-carat black Chances are you've heard 24-Carat Black , even if you've never heard of them, as their work 's been sampled by the likes of Digable Planets and Jay-Z . The world's greatest reissue label recently unearthed the group's shelved follow-up to 1973's underappreciated "dark urban concept album," Ghetto: Misfortune's Wealth , and is set to release the previously unheard Gone: The Promises of Yesterday [...]
for some of you. . . MP3: 24 Carat Black - Poverty's Paradise Heavily sampled LP.
I don't know how the celebrities do it, winging from coast to coast to coast and never looking worn a minute for it. I'm back, nicely jet lagged and California Dreaming for this week's five. Last weeks "very special" pre-taped five covered everything from the cure for "Purple Ear Fatigue" to my penchant for my love of NWOBM bands with a ride on the A train along the way. Our Friday Five regulars (should we call you guys Fivers ?) chimed in with everything from Sweeny Todd to [...]
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