Blog: Biochemical Slang

Donny Hathaway - Everything is Everything (1970) "Afterwards, he was a genius, but right then, he was just another guy tryin." - Joel Dorn This album was Donny's [...]

Bobbi Humphrey - Blacks and Blues (Blue Note 1973) This is a hands-down jazz-funk classic. Fuck a jazz purist. This is jazz. This is funk. This is Bobbi Humphrey at her best. Mrs. Humphrey, helped by the genius production and backup instrumentation of the Mizell brothers, created a soundtrack to a movie that was never made. You gotta love that electric piano and clavinet sound. After I first copped this record, I realized that [...]

Fred McDowell - Live at the Mayfair Hotel (1969) Take a genius Delta blues musician past his prime, bring him to an intimate club in London, and put him in front of a bunch white yuppies. Recipe for disaster. To the contrary. Fred McDowell sang and played his heart out. Obviously enjoying his celebrity status, he brought life into tunes that were long dead. Of his many "rediscovery" albums, this is his best. Fred McDowell was the master [...]

My swagger is Mick Jagger.

As we patiently wait for Cuban Linx II... We hope Raekwon and Co. can recreate the magic of OB4CL. In the meantime peep this slept on mixtape, exclusively produced by slept on producer Chops. We all know that We Got it For Cheap Volume 2 is the mixtape of 2005. However, this tape deserves some mention. Being solo-produced, this tape has a rare seamless quality, that most mixtapes (and most rap) lacks. Chops loves the funk. Rae's skills shine through, as [...]

The one and only...Bill Withers

Mitch Ryder - The Detroit-Memphis Experiment The year, 1969. Combine the hottest studio band in Memphis with the king of blue-eyed Detroit rock and you get the Detroit-Memphis Experiment. Produced by the funkiest white man to have walked this earth, Steve Cropper (tied with Donald Dunn), Mitch Ryder combines the grittiness of Northern rock with the rhythm of Memphis. For those that love that Stax sound. As Mitch said, "It's still [...]

MIXTAPE KING: This isn't new, but I'm still listening to it. Here are some of the tracks that didn't get sample clearance. Here's another version of "The Champ." Here's why Ghost is the most consistent, most original Wu-Tang Clansmen. "...I'll take the whole finger then." TRACKLIST 1 - Intro 2 - Hidden Darts [produced by J-Love] 3 - Family Affair feat. Raekwon, Trife, Cappadonna, Sungod [...]