Ying Yang Twins / Common / Kanye West / Nu Tone / Matrix / Recloose / Joe Dukie

Today, I figured I’d just do a random post of some of the joints that I’ve been bangin' in my earhole this week... though there are about 12 tru bangers old and new that have come to my attention this week... I’ll limit it to 4 for times sake (mine)…

Proving again to all the naysayers… Drum and Bass will never die… Matrix delivers an outstanding full vocal remix that KILLS the original Nu Tone joint Seven Days... which is from his nu full length Brave Nu World…

Nu Tone - Seven Years (Matrix Remix) Hospital Records (NHS87) 2005

I’m tellin’ ya… just buy ANY and EVERY thing that comes out on Hospital and you’ll keep yourself sorted on some serious quality controlled D&B… outstanding outstandingness…

FINALLY some new bidnazz from Recloose… here is a jazzy neo electric slice of 4/4 funkiness…

Recloose Featuring Joe Dukie - Dust (White Label) 2005

I really dig the vocal on this one… BUT… if you are one of those DJs afraid to rinse a full vocal… the instrumental on the flip side stands on its own… Recloose needs to release a new album… like… NOW.

The vocalist on the cut, Joe Dukie, has been in the wings for a minute with other releases on Sonar Kollective and Best Seven… the later with ill Austrian MC… Sugar B. So show Dukie some love…
Errrr… okay… sorry… that was totally uncalled for.

Common Featuring Kanye West – Go produced by Kanye West
from the forthcoming album Be 2005

This is the best track from the 11 track bootleg that’s been floatin’ around… which is NOT the final version of the album… Jay Dee and Kanye West produce the entire thang… so you know the productions on point… though I’m not much of a Kanye fan. This bootleg is quality... but I really wanted him to keep pushin it like the his last album... Though commercially unsuccessful... Electric Circus was absolutely genius… ahead of its time… and will be looked back on as a CLASSIC… the Soulquarians came on point… but Hip Hop just ain’t ready. I thought you knew?

Electric Circus will be Common’s Paul Boutique…

Last but not certainly not least... I heard this on the radio a couple weeks ago… turned it off immediately... it reminded me of that Lil' Jon tune I'm not feelin' (there's not many)... That Toma track from Miami's Pitbull... its nothing but a Lil’ Jon beat and an annoying pitched kicked drum for the bassline. Very basic… Well this track is the same idea… even uses the same kick for the bass. But strips the beat down even more… using only a snap and an occasional skat skat (or is it skeet skeet?) for hi hats… the real highlight here for me is The Ying Yang Twins flow... They spit that southern slang in a way only they can… going so far as to deliver their lyrics in a whisper… a first for a mainstream rap song… It wasn’t until I heard it a couple more times… before I GOT IT… Produced by the Ying Yang Twins' DJ Smurf... Yes that DJ Smurf... who used to produce miami bass back in the 90's for Shy-D and others. Before producing his biggest hit to date for Ying Yang, he was probably most well know for working on the Luke, and Kizzy Rock track... B-Otch.

This is THE tune of the week...

Ying Yang Twinz - Wait (The Whisper Song) produced by DJ Smurf aka Beatz N' Azz
from the forthcoming album The United State Of Atlanta (U.S.A.) 2005

‘Cause I beat that cat wit’ a dawg…