the seed for the buzz of the new josé james album, for me mind you, was planted when i read an update from gilles peterson on facebook and it was very gilles and sensless hype but i was swallowing it. i had heard of an eventual album in the making but i didn't know that it was to be released on legendary blue note records.
i of course later heard the new tracks on dj spinna's mixtape that served as the official album teaser and it was pure quality. "it's all over your body" was not my favourite out of the five new tracks that was on it but when the news reached me that the single was out and with a dj spinna remix i was more than eager to check it out.
the original is very josé james but with a new twist and the best way to explain it lowkey cool jazz spun through a hip-hop filter and with a touch of dub & funk. it's sort of sparse and james' voice fits the musical backing like a glove. now for spinnas take there is a whole load to take in the original and to flip and this is what he did.
it's eastcoasthiphop style r&b but with a contemporary edge with a clean packing bass and drums that cut through the spectrum. it's quite funky and the musical content is taken from a motif that appears in the original and that spinna looped and tweaked. he certainly did a good job at re-translating it for the club and it's where i want to hear this song the next time. it is going to be in my headphones though, proper tune.
buy here (itunes)
note: previous entry was one with a clear message and if anyone thought i
would change into a more serious popularculture blog, think again.
remember that i wrote about shorty rogers and followed it up with alex
christensen/u96 and then james brown. i just write what i feel about
with no care to what is good taste or not, mostly since no one actually
reads this blog. so on the with the regular programming...
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