Outkast - The Love Below (2003)

Tracklist:

1. "The Love Below (Intro)" – 1:27
2. "Love Hater" – 2:49
3. "God (Interlude)" – 2:20
4. "Happy Valentine's Day" – 5:23
5. "Spread" – 3:51
6. "Where Are My Panties?" – 1:54
7. "Prototype" - 5:26
8. "She Lives in My Lap" (featuring Rosario Dawson) – 4:27
9. "Hey Ya!" – 3:55
10. "Roses" – 6:09
11. "Good Day, Good Sir" – 1:24
12. "Behold a Lady" – 4:37
13. "Pink & Blue" – 5:04
14. "Love in War" – 3:25
15. "She's Alive" – 4:06
16. "Dracula's Wedding" (featuring Kelis) – 2:32
17. "The Letter (Interlude)" - 0:20
18. "My Favorite Things" – 5:14
    
19. "Take Off Your Cool" (featuring Norah Jones) – 2:38
20. "Vibrate" – 6:33
    
21. "A Life in the Day of Benjamin André (Incomplete)" 4:50
    

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below is the fifth studio album by American hip hop duo OutKast, released September 23, 2003 on LaFace Records in the United States. Issued as a double album, it clocks at over two and-a-half hours and consists of a solo album from both of the group's members. Speakerboxxx has Big Boi performing tracks that are rooted in basic hip hop, while The Love Below, the solo project of André 3000, covers musical styles such as soul, pop, funk, and jazz.

Most critics were also particularly more interesed in André's half of the album than on Big Boi's solo venture, due to the experimentation with several music genres on The Love Below. The intro of the album was already a trip on classical music, "Love Hater" has purely jazz influences (apart from a cover of "My Favorite Things", a Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein tune), and the rest was a combination of soul, funk, R&B, and hip-hop. Will Hermes from Entertainment Weekly pointed that André's album "is as strange and rich a trip as pop offers nowadays, a song cycle about love's battle against fear and (self-) deception that's frequently profound, hilarious, and very, very sexy."

Wikipedia

Sólo The Love Below de Andre 3000 (Speakerboxxx no).


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Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow (1975)

Tracklist:

1. "You Know What I Mean" (Jeff Beck, Max Middleton) – 4:05
2. "She's a Woman" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:31
3. "Constipated Duck" (Beck) – 2:48
4. "Air Blower" (Beck, Phil Chen, Middleton, Richard Bailey) – 5:09
5. "Scatterbrain" (Beck, Middleton) – 5:39
6. "Cause We've Ended as Lovers" (Stevie Wonder) – 5:52
7. "Thelonius" (Stevie Wonder) – 3:16
8. "Freeway Jam" (Middleton) – 4:58
9. "Diamond Dust" (Brian Holland) – 8:26
   

Músicos:

• Jeff Beck - guitarra
• Max Middleton - teclados
  
• Phil Chenn - bajo
  
• Richard Bailey - batería, percusión
  
• George Martin - producción
  

Blow by Blow typifies Jeff Beck's wonderfully unpredictable career. Released in 1975, Beck's fifth effort as a leader and first instrumental album was a marked departure from its more rock-based predecessors. Only composer/keyboardist Max Middleton returned from Beck's previous lineups. To Beck's credit, Blow by Blow features a tremendous supporting cast. Middleton's tasteful use of the Fender Rhodes, clavinet, and analog synthesizers leaves a soulful imprint. Drummer Richard Bailey is in equal measure supportive and propulsive as he deftly combines elements of jazz and funk with contemporary mixed meters. Much of the album's success is also attributable to the excellent material, which includes Middleton's two originals and two collaborations with Beck, a clever arrangement of Lennon and McCartney's "She's a Woman," and two originals by Stevie Wonder. George Martin's ingenious production and string arrangements rival his greatest work. Beck's versatile soloing and diverse tones are clearly the album's focus, and he proves to be an adept rhythm player. Blow by Blow is balanced by open-ended jamming and crisp ensemble interaction as it sidesteps the bombast that sank much of the jazz-rock fusion of the period. One of the album's unique qualities is the sense of fun that permeates the performances. On the opening "You Know What I Mean," Beck's stinging, blues-based soloing is full of imaginative shapes and daring leaps. On "Air Blower," elaborate layers of rhythm, duel lead, and solo guitars find their place in the mix. Propelled by the galvanic rhythm section, Beck slashes his way into "Scatterbrain," where a dizzying keyboard and guitar line leads to more energetic soloing from Beck and Middleton. In Stevie Wonder's ballad "Cause We've Ended as Lovers," Beck variously coaxes and unleashes sighs and screams from his guitar in an aching dedication to Roy Buchanan. Middleton's aptly titled "Freeway Jam" best exemplifies the album's loose and fun-loving qualities, with Beck again riding high atop the rhythm section's wave. As with "Scatterbrain," Martin's impeccable string arrangements enhance the subtle harmonic shades of the closing "Diamond Dust." Blow by Blow signaled a new creative peak for Beck, and it proved to be a difficult act to follow. It is a testament to the power of effective collaboration and, given the circumstances, Beck clearly rose to the occasion. In addition to being a personal milestone, Blow by Blow ranks as one of the premiere recordings in the canon of instrumental rock music.

by Mark Kirschenmann

Un clásico esencial para todos los amantes del jazz rock setentoso y el rock instrumental.


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Buckethead - Population Override (2004)

Tracklist:

1. Unrestrained Growth
2. Too Many Humans
3. Population Override
4. Humans Vanish
5. Cruel Reality of Nature
6. A Day Will Come
7. Earth Heals Herself
8. Clones
9. Superhuman
10. ...

Músicos:

• Buckethead: Guitar, bass
• Pinchface: Drums
• Travis Dickerson: Keyboards

Buckethead and I had talked about doing a bit of a nod to some of the great vinyl records of
of the '60s and '70s for some time. Some of the records we were talking about included John Mayall's
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, Hendrix's "Electricladyland," Traffic and some of the post-James Brown-inspired
funk of the '70s. After finishing the sessions that became the Cornbugs' "Brain Circus," where the three of us
-- Bucket, Pinchface and I -- jammed under Choptop's vocalizing, we thought the circumstances might be right.
So, armed with his white Les Paul and my brother's old Tele, Bucket turned his amp up to 10, I threw an analog
synth on top of my suitcase Rhodes and pushed them next to my Hammond B3. Pinch played my studio Gretsch
kit, and for two days we played for hours while the tape rolled. Over the next few weeks we culled the stuff
we thought had the vibe we were looking for, added bass and a few guitar and keyboard overdubs.

Travis Dickerson (teclados)

No es precisamente la clase de música que se espera de un tipo que usa un balde de sombrero y una máscara de hockey en la cabeza y que tiene fama de tocar música extremadamente bizarra; pero este disco está más cerca de Jeff Beck que otra cosa. Fusión funky setentosa al mango.

(Videos en el tracklist)


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Screaming Headless Torsos (1995)

Tracklist:

01 - Vinne
02 - Free Man
03 - Cult Of The Internal Sun
04 - Word To Herb
05 - Blue In Green
06 - Chernobyl Firebirds
07 - Graffiti Cemetery
08 - Smile In A Wave (Theme From Jack Johnson)
09 - Wedding In Sarajevo
10 - Hope
11 - Kermes Macabre
12 - Another Sucka


Funk rabioso y experimental con influencias del jazz, hip hop, rock, etc. con cantidades industriales de groove. Músicos de primerísimo nivel; el guitarrista/lider es David "Fuze" Fiuczynski y el baterista nada menos que Jojo Mayer. Disco obligatorio para todo fan del funk/fusión.


Smile in a Wave (Theme From Jack Johnson)
Cult Of Internal Sun


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Jamiroquai - Emergency On Planet Earth (1993)

Tracklist:

1. "When You Gonna Learn (Didgeridoo)" – 3:50
2. "Too Young to Die" – 6:05
3. "Hooked Up" – 4:35
4. "If I Like it, I Do It" – 4:53
5. "Music of the Mind" – 6:22
6. "Emergency on Planet Earth" – 4:05
7. "Whatever It Is, I Just Can't Stop" – 4:07
8. "Blow Your Mind" – 8:32
9. "Revolution 1993" – 10:16
10. "Didgin' Out" – 2:37

Un disco con mucho groove. Funk con tintes jazzeros (muy ala Kool & the Gang por momentos) actualizado a los 90' (aunque todavía suena vigente). Excelente producción, suena bárbaro, bajalo ya.


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Too Young To Die
Blow Your Mind
Music Of The Mind

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