HHT: Krafty Kuts - Back To Mine
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Track:Nas - Nas Is Like
Krafty Kuts, originally a producer of what is often called Nu Breakz, recently released an album called "Back To Mine". It contains classic HipHop as well as Soul, Jazz and TripHop and all tracks are very well selected and brought in a very reasonable order. There are artists represented like Massive Attack, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Nas, Roy Ayers or the Incredible Bongo Band. Two tracks from Krafty Kuts himself respectively of him and A. Skillz, with whom he had produced least one album before, are also contained. I wrote about that album last year in a post on "> Old school meets New skool":http://mog.cNm/Hermes/blog_post/90176
On "Back To Mine" I discovered tracks, that I always wanted to have, but of which I didn't know, who was the artist, as well as new dope tracks, that I didn't know before. One example for the latter was the instrumental and "mellowed" version of Jein of Fettes Brot, which I already have written about two weeks ago. (see "> HHT: Fettes Brot - Jein":http://mog.com/Hermes/blog_post/151021)
An example for the former is Nas' "Nas Is Like", which is the featured track of this post. I knew this song originally from a very old mixtape, that I got from a friend a long time ago and to which I listened to excessively while driving home from my university town in a car that still had a cassette deck. It became something like a building block of HipHop to me, though I had no playlist. But the music burrowed itself deep down in my (sub-)consciousness and surely became something like a measure for what I regard as good HipHop.
The whole album has this fantastic old school flair, though also some non HipHop tracks are contained as mentioned. But that doesn't destroy the overall feeling.I wouldn't denominate this compilation as deep-going or fundamental. But it sure is a very nice mix and it's actually the first old school album, that I have and which physically is not a cassette - a format that is sadly not very promising regarding its future existence.
So if you like what you hear and Old School HipHop in general and you don't bother to have some non HipHop tracks in between, "Back To Mine" is something, in which you could take delight.
On "Back To Mine" I discovered tracks, that I always wanted to have, but of which I didn't know, who was the artist, as well as new dope tracks, that I didn't know before. One example for the latter was the instrumental and "mellowed" version of Jein of Fettes Brot, which I already have written about two weeks ago. (see "> HHT: Fettes Brot - Jein":http://mog.com/Hermes/blog_post/151021)
An example for the former is Nas' "Nas Is Like", which is the featured track of this post. I knew this song originally from a very old mixtape, that I got from a friend a long time ago and to which I listened to excessively while driving home from my university town in a car that still had a cassette deck. It became something like a building block of HipHop to me, though I had no playlist. But the music burrowed itself deep down in my (sub-)consciousness and surely became something like a measure for what I regard as good HipHop.
The whole album has this fantastic old school flair, though also some non HipHop tracks are contained as mentioned. But that doesn't destroy the overall feeling.I wouldn't denominate this compilation as deep-going or fundamental. But it sure is a very nice mix and it's actually the first old school album, that I have and which physically is not a cassette - a format that is sadly not very promising regarding its future existence.
So if you like what you hear and Old School HipHop in general and you don't bother to have some non HipHop tracks in between, "Back To Mine" is something, in which you could take delight.
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