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Vans x Seattle promo video by Kahlil Joseph and Luke Meier.
Full credits after the jump.
Showing posts with label ishmael butler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ishmael butler. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Friday, January 8, 2010
Digable
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Shabazz Palaces, the new project fronted by Ishmael Butler, is performing its unique brand of dubstep-influenced, deconstructed hip-hop tonight at Neumo's (Seattle). The group recently released two albums concurrently – Of Light and the self-titled Shabazz Palaces, and I recommend scooping both of them up from your local record store, from emusic, or directly from shabazzpalaces.com.
For more info check out Larry Mizell Jr.'s feature on Shabazz in this week's issue of The Stranger.
The video above was inspired by Charles Burnett's underground classic Killer of Sheep:
Shabazz Palaces, the new project fronted by Ishmael Butler, is performing its unique brand of dubstep-influenced, deconstructed hip-hop tonight at Neumo's (Seattle). The group recently released two albums concurrently – Of Light and the self-titled Shabazz Palaces, and I recommend scooping both of them up from your local record store, from emusic, or directly from shabazzpalaces.com.
For more info check out Larry Mizell Jr.'s feature on Shabazz in this week's issue of The Stranger.
The video above was inspired by Charles Burnett's underground classic Killer of Sheep:
Thursday, May 28, 2009
What's Really Going On
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Via Raindrop Hustla: a really, incredibly dope new Jake One video for "Home" off his record White Van Music.
Directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi (who also did the Gabriel Teodros video I posted about last year), it feels to me like a Seattle version of this video (and not only because of Ishmael Butler's presence). Two classics in my book. As for the song itself – as much as I am obsessed with drums, the contrast of a drumless hip-hop cut or one with percussion that is integral to the sample, as this seems to be, is extra good when it's good. I always knew Jake One would blow up.
Pick up Jake One's White Van Music ...immediately if not soon.
Alright, I'll play it again, yeah:
Via Raindrop Hustla: a really, incredibly dope new Jake One video for "Home" off his record White Van Music.
Directed by Zia Mohajerjasbi (who also did the Gabriel Teodros video I posted about last year), it feels to me like a Seattle version of this video (and not only because of Ishmael Butler's presence). Two classics in my book. As for the song itself – as much as I am obsessed with drums, the contrast of a drumless hip-hop cut or one with percussion that is integral to the sample, as this seems to be, is extra good when it's good. I always knew Jake One would blow up.
Pick up Jake One's White Van Music ...immediately if not soon.
Alright, I'll play it again, yeah:
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
The Ones that's True
The members of Digable Planets are re-uniting for a show in Seattle tonight. Here's the video for the first single from their second album – which, when I saw it, made me want to move to Brooklyn and walk around for a few years…
…and here's a lesser-known b-side of the last single from that record. More of a long interlude than a fully delineated song, "Dedicated" was one of my favorite cuts Digable Planets ever recorded. The group had followed the Grammy-laden whirlwind of its first record with a much more underground-sounding album, Blowout Comb, which was not exactly loved by critics (it has since gained much more respect, and I find myself appreciating its lyrical and musical complexity more in recent years than I did when it first came out). This non-album cut seemed like an artist's statement of sorts – an explanation of where they were coming from, regardless of Grammies or critical response.
Digable Planets Dedicated mp3
…and here's a lesser-known b-side of the last single from that record. More of a long interlude than a fully delineated song, "Dedicated" was one of my favorite cuts Digable Planets ever recorded. The group had followed the Grammy-laden whirlwind of its first record with a much more underground-sounding album, Blowout Comb, which was not exactly loved by critics (it has since gained much more respect, and I find myself appreciating its lyrical and musical complexity more in recent years than I did when it first came out). This non-album cut seemed like an artist's statement of sorts – an explanation of where they were coming from, regardless of Grammies or critical response.
Digable Planets Dedicated mp3
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