I don't really know anything about this group, just saw the "Canal St." video pop up on my Facebook feed and was intrigued. The music I've heard so far is super pitched up sample chops over hollow drums. Emcees got bars and this real nice energy to them.

They're on XL Recordings so they're gonna get that innnnnanet love treatment (assuming they haven't already). Debut album drops tomorrow which you can stream on NPR

http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/295737553/first-listen-ratking-so-it-goes

I'm only 3 songs in but I'm digging it so far. Did a quick search and was surprised there was no posts on this already.

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or DJing AND nightlife...
peep Opening Set Podcast
https://soundcloud.com/openingset

also remixes: http://jonreyes.bandcamp.com

@stankpalmer

before I really dove in. Glad you posted this because I'd kinda forgotten about them.

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but as a whole it was hit and miss.

whoever produced it did sample Dipset Anthem tho, so it has that working in its favor.

>but as a whole it was hit and miss.
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>whoever produced it did sample Dipset Anthem tho, so it has
>that working in its favor.

i agree

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the album goes hard.

It's *hugely NY* which is really what makes me remember hitting shows and seeing Def Jux / Fondle Em / EOW and listening to fresh new music that was distinctly from this city.

When I listen to this album I feel somewhat Iron Galaxyish. Just a tad.

Best description I've heard about it was in an interview with Despot "That is some very particularly New York shit."

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2014/04/despot_tweets_is_watching.php

They've gotten better since that EP last year. Doubt it'll stay in rotation long but the Co-Flow 2.0 vibe is working for me.

Didn't change my opinion from here much though - http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2778040&mesg_id=2778040&listing_type=search

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"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

So It Goes, Snow Beach, Puerto Rican Judo are the standouts IMO

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the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

classicism sans nostalgia

...if my opinion was slightly effected by the 3+ articles i read about them prior to listening to any music, but

at first, i was like "uhhh...eh"

then i listened again while not reading anything and i was like "oh, ok"

then i got h*gh and listened to it last night and i was like "OH SHIT"

sounds like a really dope album either way

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https://smallprofessor.bandcamp.com

I ignored these dudes for the most part and gave this new album a shot

and it was definitely a nice surprise

spit is there, but i just can't connect with shit.

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Big PEMFin H & z's
"I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." © Miles

"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."

but the album is way better.

kind of an updated born-in-the-90s take on that CoFlow x CanOx wave, w/ a splash of dipset.

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pretty sure i read that exact description somewhere, too (the dipset nod)

thinkpiece rap

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https://smallprofessor.bandcamp.com

inbox please

it really is Co Flow meets Dipset as crazy as that sounds. anthems in decomposition as i described it to a friend

I don't know if i'll revisit it much after these 4 full listens but i LOVE, the title track. The syncopated dissonance and clashing harmonies in that song are crazy. The semi-raps with soulful crooning juxtapose pieces of poetry over those slapping 808s is creative as hell

https://bundles.bittorrent.com/bundles/ratking

So It Goes grew on me. Im excited for this one.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/38laz8yok1ioczd/AAADJNFxupQcew46cFWYlQIqa?dl=0

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the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

That track with despot and Princess Nokia is fire

Steep tech

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

>I don't really know anything about this group, just saw the
>"Canal St." video pop up on my Facebook feed and was
>intrigued. The music I've heard so far is super pitched up
>sample chops over hollow drums. Emcees got bars and this real
>nice energy to them.
>
>They're on XL Recordings so they're gonna get that innnnnanet
>love treatment (assuming they haven't already). Debut album
>drops tomorrow which you can stream on NPR
>
>http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/295737553/first-listen-ratking-so-it-goes
>
>I'm only 3 songs in but I'm digging it so far. Did a quick
>search and was surprised there was no posts on this already.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...