Saturday, August 30, 2008

Musical Selections: The Beat Konducta

Checked out Madlib's Beat Konducta Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite, which is a J Dilla tribute beat tape (J. Rocc from Stones Throw is involved too). Nice cover:

Really smooth, most of the tracks are less than 2 minutes. This is really smooth, you can keep listening to this over and over again and not really get bored with it. If you are into the mellower beats on J Dilla's Donuts then you'll like this. The only negative about this is that its so short -- about 33 minutes.

I don't think this is really recent, I just listened to it for the first time, but Madlib's Raw Ground Wire Hump (Beat Konducta in India 45) is also worth checking out. Not surprisingly -- this has a real Bollywood soundtrack feel to it. The 45 has Raw Ground Wire Parts 1 to 4 on it. There was a track called Raw Ground Wire on his Beat Konducta Vol 3-4, but none of the 4 parts on the 45 sound like it. The Bollywood soundtrack thing does come through pretty clearly on a few parts of this -- the other two are more low key influences. Again this really short, about 6 or 7 minutes. But then you can get more the stuff on Beat Konducta Vol 3-4.

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