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...derives from Mattison’s interest in “roots music of all kind,” he explains. The group, which features Mattison and collaborator/multi-instrumentalist Paul Olsen—the two “met each other in Minneapolis in ’93 at a P-Funk Show” before relocating to New York—recently released its second album, “Alligator Love Cry,” on Landslide Records and is now touring behind it. But Mattison wasn’t always focused on music as a career. Indeed, when asked...
GNARLS BARKLEY ST. ELSEWHERE Rapper Cee-Lo and producer Danger Mouse (he of the gene-spliced Grey Album--a mix of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album) present the best psychedelic soul record since the P-Funk era. Cee-Lo has Bobby Womack-style chops and a willingness to get vulnerable, but Danger Mouse replaces all the moldering soul tropes--over-the-top strings, key-changing hysterics--with minimalist bass lines, trippy samples and planetariums full of crunchy galactic sounds. The result on Necromancing, Just a Thought and the superb Crazy (the first single...
...survive its museumification, just as it has outlived its earlier commercialization. Founded on the sequential exchange of lyrics over prerecorded beats, rap is already the most explicitly historical form of popular music; enough intertextuality to make Barthes blush—whether in quoted rhymes, posse shout-outs or P-Funk samples—is a constitutive element of the rapper’s craft. The tension between lyrical innovation and “respect for the culture” allows Nas to decry “a rhymebiter’s rthyme” on his debut album Illmatic, while...
...earlier work for the marshy turf somewhere between hip-hop, jazz, electronica, and funk, where Outkast’s Andre 3000 has built his secret lab. “The Craft” is laced with swirling atmospheric washes, funkified melodic loops, ethereal crooning, snappy drumlines, and even P-Funk sensei George Clinton, who lends an extra punch to “Lotus Flower.” With careful melding, distilling, layering and relayering of sound, the album is packed with flashy, infectious tracks. Each song crackles with energy, underscored by Gab’s distinctly dense machine-gun flow...
...band played R&B as well as soul, replete with saxaphone, trumpet and guitar accompaniment. Sounding like a mix between Bob Marley and the P-Funk Allstars, Soul Fège had seemed a likely choice to go on to Springfest...