Somewhere, at some point, in some time zone, someone's enjoying a bit of Jurassic 5. Now, everyone who wants to but can't enjoy the 5's debut album, aptly titled J5, is in luck as the guys over at Decon Records are releasing a deluxe reissue.
In case you're late, "Jurassic 5 broke up":http://mog.com/MrFrost/blog_post/54579 about two months ago. But dry your tears, two projects from ex J5 members have been announced, Pitchfork reports.Lead emcee Chali 2na has an album in the works titled Fish Outta Water. The oft delayed and long awaited album has been "just around the corner" for over a year. A single titled "Dont Stop" from the alb...
Jurassic 5 are ready to call it quits after nearly 15 years together. They'll complete a short tour of Japan and Australia before packing it in for good. Member Soup says the guys just arent seeing eye to eye, and hinted that another member wanted to go solo and spend time away from the group. Their last album "Feedback" was released in summer of 2006.*"Full Article":http://www.nme.com/news/jur...
Cpunks,Just when I had the universe neatly categorized and tucked into this three ring binder in my office, I thought about a curve ball. Instincts. Huh? Where do they fit in? How can I find the connection between instincts and music...? I quote from all knowing Wikipedia:"Instinct provides a response to external stimuli, which moves an organism to action, unless overridden by intelligence, whi...
Some J5 just shuffled up on the playlist, and I remembered that Thursday night is hip-hop night. I have yet to participate, but this song seemed like a fitting opportunity
Blair has asked Thursday become Hip-Hop Night on the MOG. Fine. Only the real true shit allowed. No damned poseurs dancing around pools with more gold on than a slave hole. Which means Jurassic 5 will have to be in the house. Stand back.What's Golden, from "Power in Numbers (2004)"Freedom, from "Feedback (2006)", live on the Henry Rollins Show
In a similar vein as Rawkiddo's "Where Do You Mog?", I present "Where Do You Rock?".Har har, I kill me. Oh, and I am DIGGING Jurassic 5, Quality Control anyways. I had never really listened to them till about a month ago - how is that? Funkalicious! (ps - I will tag my posts however I like, yo!)
Ed Wong at Sandbox Automatic is a huge reason why Soul Sides exists: back in the day, I need a place to park my websites and he graciously offered me his server and extra bandwidth and from that, Soul Sides was able to become a reality. So I am very, very grateful to Ed for that largesse and I recently sat down with him for a chat about the state of hip-hop retail, the death of vinyl (or perhap...
Soulrocket just made me aware of the fact that Jurassic 5 are no longer with us (as a group... mind ya).Which gave me an ideal idea for a cover post: Their version of Baden Powell's ??Canto de Ossanha??.SO cool of them to cover this tune!The original is here:(Does anybody have the Elis Regina/Toots Thieleman version? Mine is copy-protected :P)
In a similar vein as Rawkiddo's "Where Do You Mog?", I present "Where Do You Rock?".Har har, I kill me. Oh, and I am DIGGING Jurassic 5, Quality Control anyways. I had never really listened to them till about a month ago - how is that? Funkalicious! (ps - I will tag my posts however I like, yo!)
i dont listen to a lot of rap anymore because nowdays... it sucks.so heres a lil diddy thats been with me when the rap supply was running low.I agree with Nas when he said "Hip-Hop is dead."
Blair has asked Thursday become Hip-Hop Night on the MOG. Fine. Only the real true shit allowed. No damned poseurs dancing around pools with more gold on than a slave hole. Which means Jurassic 5 will have to be in the house. Stand back.What's Golden, from "Power in Numbers (2004)"Freedom, from "Feedback (2006)", live on the Henry Rollins Show