I heard that "The Appeal" is old.

[Sami]

I heard The Appeal was an old beat from Rhythmalism that Quik took out of the archive and touched up. Is that possible?

It kind of makes sense IMO, because none of his new shit sounds like it.

Just listening to BlaQKout I can sense that he must have tapped his archive because the good tracks all sound extremely similar to Quik circa 98-02 like BlaQKout and Cream and Fuck Yall but all the crappy songs sound new like Whatcha Wan Do and Jupiter's Critic.

[Matty]

where'd you hear that? it seems plausable, but quik can obviously still make new music with that kinda vibe. some of the previewed book of david material had that smooth, laid back, funky r&b sound and that's definitely new stuff.

[Mo-D]

Could be true. When I first heard it I thought it sounded very 1998.

Hopefully someone asks him in a future interview. That is probably why Blaqkout was my favourite and most listened album of the last 2 years, because of the songs you mention and the vibe they had. The two weak joints you said, which were "Whatcha wanna do" and "Jupiters Critic in the mind of Mars" - were sort of experimental, and while they dont have great playback value, werent that bad.

I would love nothing more than to see Blaqkout 2.

[Sami]

I didn't get it from anywhere official. I was just talking with a friend who is also a fan of Quik.

Honestly at first I disagreed but I think he may be on to something, because at first Quik took pride in live analog instruments but I believe he said around Fixxers' time in an interview where he said his sister sold all his equipment while he was in jail (he was dissing her also) and that he had switched to Reason.

And if you think about it that new song with KK (from Book of David) it was just a drumbeat and relatively sparse music.