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1. mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:09:44 UTC mcc

   What I'm listening to today: "Get Your Snack On", Amon Tobin

   Consider pre-"ISAM" Amon Tobin, who was on something incredibly unique. No one else has ever thought about drums the way Tobin did during those years. Back then we lumped him in with "drum & bass", but he didn't follow any of D&B's rules. He built something new from sampling the already frenetic energy of jazz drumming and somehow doubling it.

   Here's my favorite track from that era. It plays like a manifesto.

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw8s7nYSylc

   • mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 30-Jan-2024 20:09:44 UTC mcc

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     What I'm listening to today: "Dirtknock", Madlib

     Madlib is the hip-hop instrumentalist who provides the voice of Lord Quasimodo and the beats on MF Doom's MADVILLAIN. His deal is pretty much "he samples jazz, but like, in a different way than other people do it". Here's a lovely snack of a track from 2021, with various lounge vibes jostling against each other, starting and stopping like thoughts in a distracted mind. I think this is what "Jigsaw Jazz" was supposed to be

     https://madlib.bandcamp.com/track/dirtknock