Your 2020 Playback

<b> J-Dilla </b>

Smooth and relaxing, such as heaven. This can only be J-Dilla. 

Re-upload from 2011 - Enjoy!!!
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J-Dilla | 2011

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"You know there's no one finer; diggin' for shit from here to North Carolina."

After nearly four years of radio silence following 2020's honey butter beats vol. 2, chuckee. bum rushes the scene at his most focused and most ill with his official debut full-length album, SCRATCH.

"It took me a long time to learn how to make music the way I always heard it in my head," the enigmatic beat junkie comments with a grin. "That's the main reason I took so much time out to learn how my heroes did it. I figured I was gonna represent hip-hop proper, so why not do it the right way?"

Taking an extended rap sabbatical for the next four-ish sun cycles, chuckee. engrossed himself in all things ruff, rugged and raw. Studying under the tutelage of old WKCR radio tapes, underground microphone maestros (Artifacts, People Under the Stairs, Masta Ace, De La Soul) and beatmachine virtuosos (Lord Finesse, the Beatnuts, Buckwild, DJ Krush), the producer painstakingly rearranged his mental in order to deliver what he considers his best work yet. As chuckee. so groovily put it, this is his formal re-"endtroduction" as artist and producer.

Proudly presented to you live in stereo, SCRATCH. No records were harmed in the making of this LP. Play it loud.

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The ends of days are ones with which Damian Lazarus is familiar, but, much like his biblical namesake, he too, has come back from the brink and risen to fight on, his career is interwoven with themes of survival and re-birth. Fittingly then, his second solo album does not wallow in our current dark times, but charts a path of hope. Flourish, offers a glimpse of a new world worth living in and surviving for.

Lazarus is a true DJ, an artist at home taking crowds on incredible journeys across the globe. He averages 150 + shows a year, including his own landmark events like Day Zero and Get Lost. He is nothing if not restless, no down time for Damian. Since February he has holed himself in the studio finalizing and reforming ideas that had been brewing for years. It took a pandemic to ground the DJ, but what emerged is a more fully realized vision of Lazarus as producer.

Flourish takes us through the many lives of Damian Lazarus, who, as he has grown older, and traversed the globe, has come to more deeply examine the role the dance floor plays in his own life and that of others. With parties cancelled, it would have been easy to wallow, but instead urgency took hold, and isolated Italian countryside Damian took the space to tackle the larger questions he has been grappling with for years.

“My early ideas about a new album were quite dark, pessimistic even, I had long been thinking and worrying about the problems of the world. Then the global pandemic and subsequent lockdown began and my fears seemed to become reality. But while writing these themes actually started to transform in an uplifting way. The new songs came together quite quickly, with renewed impetus, and mutated into a more positive outlook. Questions about faith, religion and spirituality all appeared amidst the darkness and fear, but in those times of quiet solitude and creation, I came to realise we can emerge into the sun and flourish on the other side.”

As anyone who has watched Lazarus DJ can attest, his inspirations are deep and varied, criss crossing show tunes, drum n bass, jazz, electro, soul, house, techno and everything in-between. This album reflects his immersion in a multitude of scenes over the years, from the early days of London drum n bass, to his role as a figurehead in the electroclash scene, and of course the significant impact his Crosstown Rebels label has had on contemporary underground house and techno. His shapeshifting is down to his relentless passion for new sounds and scenes, and it’s this dedication to the music that has seen him survive the boom and bust cycles and fads of club culture. It is this commitment to the outer edges of the dancefloor that has welcomed a resurgence of Crosstown as of late, a renewed reminder of Damian’s passion for showcasing the rising and revered alike

Flourish is far from a box of functional DJ tools, in the same way as Damian’s debut album Smoke The Monster Out or the more worldly outings in his brace of albums with the Ancient Moons. It’s a personal, brave and varied body of work. It’s also the work of an artist who has grown over the ten years since his last solo album. Lazarus plays with nuances of texture, tempo and style to create a rich and dense album that takes us on an odyssey that is at times both dark and uplifting. Vocals of his own cast an intimate shadow over the album with those of his sole collaborator Jem Cooke offering a soothing balance amidst the madness.

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