Word: thumpings
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...Soul have, over the 12 years of their existence, become something of a hip-hop institution. Since 1989 they have released five albums: 3 Feet High and Rising (1989), De La Soul is Dead (1991), Buhloone Mindstate (1993), Stakes is High (1996) and Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump (2000). Their style has obviously evolved a great deal, but the constant has been their instrumental experimentation, which is furthered on Bionix instruments as diverse as the French Horn, flugelhorn and flute. What is more interesting, though, is the group’s diversification of musical genres, most notably the appearance...
...trilogy, perhaps hip-hop’s most gutsy undertaking yet, began last year with Art Official Intelligence: Mosaic Thump. Backed by the two strong (and commercially popular) singles “Ooooh!” and “All Good,” and the group’s Spitkicker tour (which they repeated this year to receptive audiences around the country), Mosaic Thump was De La Soul’s biggest selling album to date. It also earned them a Grammy nomination. It may not have won, but in any case, De La Soul were definitely back...
...gave them the springboard to introduce a much wider audience to De La Soul’s characteristic brand of hip-hop. That’s what they were doing with the re-release of 3 Feet High, and it is continued, to an extent, on Bionix. Whereas Mosaic Thump was geared towards atmospheric beats and creating a party vibe, Bionix is much more lyrically focused, much more a return to the intensity of communication that sets albums like 3 Feet High apart...
...spots, a 2 1/2-minute extended version of which ran on MTV, barely mentioned the product, except for a flash of the swoosh logo. Instead, against a spare backdrop, they showed expert dribblers dexterously pounding basketballs and executing trick maneuvers. Call it basketballet. The squeak of their soles and the thump of rubber provided a primal, trance-inducing soundtrack (with some help from hip-hop legend Afrika Bambaataa). The message: Sport is music. Sport is dance. Sport is art. And so was this...
...That fight, indeed, has already started, as law enforcement officials attempt to discover who was behind the atrocities and how they might be brought to justice. And it is a fight in which the forensic processes of the criminal-justice system promise to be augmented by the thud and thump of military action...