Anacron pays tribute to hip hop legends Pete Rock and CL Smooth in celebration of the 20th anniversary of "Mecca And The Soul Brother", with his own interpretation of "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"

The re-imagined track is (re)written, performed, and produced by Anacron; with all live instrumentation (alto saxophone, keyboard, grand piano, bass, percussion, drum kit, drum programming, background vocals, & arrangements) handled by the West Coast underground's proverbial one man band himself.

Written and performed by Anacron
Produced and programmed by Anacron for Manoemusicc Productions
All live instrumentation arranged and played by Anacron
Mixed, recorded, and engineered by Anacron

Inspired by Pete Rock and CL Smooth's "They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.)"
Dedicated to Drew of The World Famous LA Breakers Crew, REST IN PEACE

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LYRICS
I reminisce, I reminisce

I reminisce for a spell, or shall I say think back
Hella great things that tell the way we act
Born on the 12th of October
Never smoked, never drank, life-long sober
Over-stated as underrated since the beginning
when in second grade it was stated that I was a musician
From piano to the sax and other woodwinds
Lessons with jazz legends where Inglewood ends
From the vinyl to the tracks and bumpin good blends
Breaking and tagging and banging with my 'hood friends
I was about that life for more than a minute
Even though my parents raised me different, I was in it
Irresponsible, plain not thinking
Peers and constables, years of obstacles
Finally hurdled and liquidated like Squirtle
when I verbally murdered derkles, underground never commercial
I make music because music made me
It seems you all forgot the value of it lately
Appreciation is missing, so I'm on a mission
To help you see it glisten when you close your eyes and listen
Positive over negative, gotta let it live
before it dies - that's a lesson in rhetoric
De ja vu, still the crew gets hella blue
when they reminisce over Drew
Good lord

I reminisce, I reminisce
Reminisce

Anacron - They Reminisce Over Drew (T.R.O.D.)

Compiled and edited by yours truly in March of 2018. 
Originally provided to supporters of the Word Is Bond film Kickstarter.

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Broadcast live on Resonance Extra March 8th 2019 on Some Kind Of Glow (John Moses - Youngbloods)

1. Caural - 1, 2, 1, 2 
2. The X-Ecutioners - Get Started - X-Pressions (1997)
3. Bahamadia - Wordplay - Kollage (1996)
4. Blackalicious - Cheezit Terrorist - Melodica (1993)
5. Souls of Mischief - A Name I Call Myself - ’93 Til Infinity (1993)
6. Latyrx - Say That - Latyrx (1997)
7. De La Soul - Dinninit (Outro) - Stakes Is High (1996)
8. Reflection Eternal - Fortified Live (feat. Mos Def & Mr. Man) - Fortified Live/2000 Seasons (1997)
9. Galt MacDermot - Space - Woman Is Sweeter (Original Soundtrack Recording) (1969)
* as sampled by Jay Dee on Busta Rhymes’ “Abandon Ship” from The Coming, 1996
10. Slum Village - I Don’t Know - Fantastic, Vol. 2 (1998)
11. Nas - It Ain’t Hard To Tell - Illmatic (1994)
12. Big L - Put It On - Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1994)
13. Caural - Ol' Dirty's Special Sauce Re-Zoo 
14. Lauryn Hill - Lost Ones - The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill (1998)
15. Common Sense - Communism - Resurrection (1994)
16. Divine Styler - Before Mecca - Wordpower 2: Directrix (1998)
17. A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhime - The Low End Theory (1991)
18. Mobb Deep - Give Up The Goods (Just Step) (feat. Big Noyd) - The Infamous (1995)
19. DJ Krush - Meiso (feat. Black Thought of The Roots) - Meiso(1995)
20. Caural - The Shadow of My DWYCK 
21. Caural - Word Is Bond
22. De La Soul - Oodles Of O’s - De La Soul Is Dead (1991)
23. Masters At Work - Get Up - Funkmaster Flex - The Mix Tape (Vol 1 (60 Minutes of Funk)) (1995)
24. MF Doom - Rhymes Like Dimes - Operation: Doomsday (1999)
25. Brand Nubian - To The Right - One For All (1990)
26. Leaders Of The New School - Connections - T.I.M.E. (1993)
27. Caural - Keep Fallin’

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Amateur paying tribute to a well known music group "The Roots". Putting their own R&B twist on The Next Movement.

Amateur Movement

Born worshipping vinyl through his parents’ living room stereo, Caural (born Zachary Mastoon)based temples at his sparkly blue drum set, the Casio PT-80 and guitar. He was soon skinning his knees skateboarding with childhood neighbor Stuart Bogie (Arcade Fire, TV on The Radio, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra), and capturing youthful interpretations of early 80's Hip Hop, new wave and pop radio hits together on cassette. Playing an amalgam of jazz influenced punk in their early teens, they went on to co-found Transmission in 1991, a group which later took a more experimental turn with the addition of saxophonist Colin Stetson. 

Equally in love with rap and shoegaze, Mastoon clarified his voice with Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University and an around-the-world gamelan orchestra aboard Semester At Sea; however, it was during his final year at NYU in 1999 that he began fusing his disparate influences quite literally with a Yamaha SU700. A CD-R of his first four compositions was slipped from his coworker at the turntablism-pioneering Asphodel Records to the head of Toshoklabs, and the first Caural album had found a home. 

A critically acclaimed catalog of original material and remixes for Chocolate Industries, Mush, Plug Research, Sound in Color, and other early foundation builders of the "beat scene" followed. It was in early 2006 that he teamed up with LA emcee Busdriver to tour with everyone from Aceyalone through Deerhoof, often bloodying fingers and accidentally tearing knobs off his sampler on stage.

One 2 OMG

Caural

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