Music for Eternity: DJ Krushs Def Beat Remixes
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The first association that comes to my mind when I listen to Arabica of Hamid Baroudi on which DJ Krush has layed its hands upon is indeed eternity.
Both DJ Shadow and DJ Krush capture in many of their works this abstact concept for me. I mean what is eternity but a abstract negation of finiteness. Everything that we experience starts and ends at some point - ourselves inclusively. Nontheless this music gives me a feeling for that concept what is strange, when one thinks about it. How can an accoustically triggered feeling provoke an acstract thought?
In my studies I'm reading things about the relation of language, action and perception. After all that we know evolution of language is highly interwoven with action and therefore also with sensoric stimulation. I imagine that even words for abstract concepts which still are words have those sensoric roots. But well, this should be a post about music, not about science.
Deaf Beat Remixes seems to be a series, but I have only this one yet.
"A Whim" is a collaboration between Dj Krush and DJ Shadow and you can actually distinguish which part is from whom - at least I imagine that. You can also see how good their both styles fit together.
"Black Satin (Reworks)" reminds a lot of DJ Krushs collaboration with Toshinori Kondo on "Ki Oku" but is tagged as Miles Davis and DJ Krush. Is it possible that he worked together with Miles Davis? I don't think so as Davis died in 1991 and Krush released his first records in '94. But only to imagine this collaboration is somehow sweet.
In "Break Ps 2 Make Ups" DJ Krush produced the instrumentals and Method Man and D'Angleo deliver the raps. I was first very critical with this track as it's a bit RnBish and the Method Man delivers lyrics, that I'm not very fond of. On the other side are the instrumentals so fantastic, that I happened to like this track in the end.
"On The Painted Desert" of Boom Boom Satellites is so Krush'ish that I should listen to the original to see what is not Krush in this track. Pure eternal slightly monotone instrumentals.
"Final Home" of Krush and Esthero is a bit cheesy in Estheros singing IMHO, but I can live with that, as it is the ony weakish track on the album.
"Arabica" must be the track, that makes the album accessible to non- or not yet Krush fans. It already has through its slow pace the typical Krush style, but the arabic singers make it definitivley more accessible to listeners that are used to singers in their music. And it's wonderful as good night music. I feel like under a wonderful night heaven full of stars when this track is in the air. One Thousand and One Night distilled into a 4:14 track.
"Harmonica" finally is a collaboration between Coldcut and DJ Krush and tells an interesting parable about a bug in a beautiful rug, that only sees its misery and doesn't realize, that it lives in the most beautiful home as it never takes the birds eyes view. Sounds to me like a Persian tale, but don't nail me down on the Persian origin.
The album contains also a collab between DJ Krush and Jazzanova, another Krush/Shadow combo and DJ Krush and Kodo, whoever that might be.
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A Whim - DJ Shadow and DJ Krush
Black Satin (Reworks) - Miles Davis and DJ Krush
And as the the last track shouldn't be the darkest one, here's even a fourth track. Get this album, it's great!
Jazzanova and DJ Krush - Coffee Talk and Wild Drums
thanks for dropping the knowledge..or the science...and i cannot believe how many great beats are in this single post. perfect for me for right at this moment. give thanks.
would love to hear Break Ps 2 Make Ups, if it sounds half as good as these I think I would be in heaven
That's what MOG is all about kaluss, dropping the knowlegde about overlooked music. Glad that I hit your taste.
Rawk, here we go - a bit different than the others, but well ..
Method Man and D'angelo - Break Ps 2 Make Ups (DJ Krush Remix)
Fat Beats! Arabica, definitely tops for me
"I mean what is eternity but a abstract negation of finiteness".... on the other hand what is finiteness but a concrete negation of infinitude?.... and relatively speaking, if it is possible to have an experience of infinity, wouldn't that make something that was once abstract, concrete? Yet how can you even bring up the concept of time which is itself an abstraction, as all time is relative there is nothing concrete about it. So then what Exists is infinitude, and the sensation of starting and stopping is the illusion.
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Well thought Dzend. But how should one be sure that he has an experience of infinity if the latter is just a word and words make only sense in a speech community. If you're the only one who experience that sensation, you could never know, if what you feel relates actually relates to the abstract concept unless you speak with other persons about it and they report a similar sensation related to that word. Finite things are much more down to earth and better grounded in everyday experience. That of course doesn't mean, that they are more real, because we have no clue what reality means anyway. Ahhhh ... long live analytical philosophy.
Uhm.........where did my comment go? Anywho, thanks for the addition, always liked Method Man and liked the beat that went with this song
Hermes, great post. I'll have to stay out the time fray, but the music is very on. You should know you gave me an intense earworm with this. I spent 20 minutes trying to recollect who else used the bass line in "Whim," although it sounds more like keys there. It was pure torture and even stumped Shazam, but I finally got it. Pharcyde used that line to great effect in "On the DL." As I was going through my chores trying to get it - I went full frontal, which is not always best in these instances, because I often find that if I give my brain some time to marinate, the answer pops effortlessly - I kept thinking of one of the Star Trek movies, where the bad guys put these gnarly little creatures into the ears of the crew of the Enterprise and I kept picturing the scene where Chekhov gets it.
Anyway, lots of fun, many thanks for the post. DJ Krush was new to me.
Glad you liked the tunage. I'm aware that "Whim" has been sampled but I didn't from whom. I have to listen to that track of Pharcyde to see what he made of it.
Regarding the "marinating" of the brain, I know what you're talking about. It works pretty much in the same way for me, only not for music :(.
DJ Krush is great, if you like HipHop instrumentals. I highly recommend the mentioned Ki-Oku, it's my favorite album of him.
Hermes, "On the DL" is right up there in my previous comment for your listening plezurre. Thanks for the tip on Ki-Oku. I actually went right out and downloaded that one from Amazon after reading your post. Think I'm gonna have to get more by Krush. It's wearing quite well.