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DUBCC - Tha Connection => Outbound Connection => Topic started by: Matty on July 16, 2013, 06:03:47 PM
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loads of threads for his recent stuff but the album has dropped dropped now and with some bonus.
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1 Problematization
2 Back Seat Lover
3 The Innocent
4 Allie Jones
5 The Only One
6 Wine Glass Woman
7 Her Favorite Song
8 Ay Bass Player
9 Crime (with Kendrick Lamar)
10 Reach Out Richard
11 Corsican Rosé
12 Where Does This Door Go
13 Robot Love
14 The Stars Are Ours
15 All Better
1 They Don’t Know You (Bonus Track)
2 Fool (Bonus Track)
3 Kaila (Bonus Track)
4 Small Clone (Bonus Track)
5 Designer Drug (Bonus Track)
this and the daft punk are some classic releases for 2013. a bit more of an upbeat flavour than his past LPs, but the production is impeccable and just great music. forget about the robin thickes and justin timberlakes trying to jump on the soul train, mayer been doing it longer and better. old school groove, that's whats up.
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after a first listen, I prefer this one over the one before, good stuff
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Incredible album! My stand out tracks..
2 Back Seat Lover
3 The Innocent
6 Wine Glass Woman
7 Her Favorite Song
9 Crime (with Kendrick Lamar)
10 Reach Out Richard
11 Corsican Rosé
14 The Stars Are Ours
1 They Don’t Know You (Bonus Track)
2 Fool (Bonus Track)
3 Kaila (Bonus Track)
5 Designer Drug (Bonus Track)
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Tuxedo EP for anyone that missed it before http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/67360234/file.html
you can hear these tracks in the background of the intro and in one of the interludes too.
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yeah tuxedo has been discussed in the westcoast section. classic modern funk to the fullest 8)
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Just want to share that crazy tought. Just imagine this album was produced by Dr Dre, but he didn't want anyone of us to know. Let's just pretend. He would be laughing straight in our face, we all think he is someone that always takes credit for other peoples work. Just pretend he is the opposite. It would be crazy man. I'm not saying every song sounds produced by him on that album, but if ''Crime (feat. Kendrick Lamar) isn't produced by Dr Dre, I don't really care because it's really just like he produced the track. The beat just sounds like a Dre Beat, from start to finish.
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Just want to share that crazy tought. Just imagine this album was produced by Dr Dre, but he didn't want anyone of us to know. Let's just pretend. He would be laughing straight in our face, we all think he is someone that always takes credit for other peoples work. Just pretend he is the opposite. It would be crazy man. I'm not saying every song sounds produced by him on that album, but if ''Crime (feat. Kendrick Lamar) isn't produced by Dr Dre, I don't really care because it's really just like he produced the track. The beat just sounds like a Dre Beat, from start to finish.
i feel you but nah, he's always had a fantastic ear for production, dude knows all about making records sound right. though this is the first one with a host of other producers, his influence remains strong. no conspiracy theories, there's a track by track breakdown on youtube talking about the making of every song too.
http://www.youtube.com/v/qUc9gBkrIo0&
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Just want to share that crazy tought. Just imagine this album was produced by Dr Dre, but he didn't want anyone of us to know. Let's just pretend. He would be laughing straight in our face, we all think he is someone that always takes credit for other peoples work. Just pretend he is the opposite. It would be crazy man. I'm not saying every song sounds produced by him on that album, but if ''Crime (feat. Kendrick Lamar) isn't produced by Dr Dre, I don't really care because it's really just like he produced the track. The beat just sounds like a Dre Beat, from start to finish.
i feel you but nah, he's always had a fantastic ear for production, dude knows all about making records sound right. though this is the first one with a host of other producers, his influence remains strong. no conspiracy theories, there's a track by track breakdown on youtube talking about the making of every song too.
http://www.youtube.com/v/qUc9gBkrIo0&
Yeah I know I was just talkin' shit, it's just so fresh to hear a completely new guy that got such a good ear, it's unexpected. His music sounds so mature. And, you know, it's funny that he says with a little smile that this record is his ''Fuck the police'' hahah ok I stop it right there I'm just kidding
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Just want to share that crazy tought. Just imagine this album was produced by Dr Dre, but he didn't want anyone of us to know. Let's just pretend. He would be laughing straight in our face, we all think he is someone that always takes credit for other peoples work. Just pretend he is the opposite. It would be crazy man. I'm not saying every song sounds produced by him on that album, but if ''Crime (feat. Kendrick Lamar) isn't produced by Dr Dre, I don't really care because it's really just like he produced the track. The beat just sounds like a Dre Beat, from start to finish.
i feel you but nah, he's always had a fantastic ear for production, dude knows all about making records sound right. though this is the first one with a host of other producers, his influence remains strong. no conspiracy theories, there's a track by track breakdown on youtube talking about the making of every song too.
Yeah I know I was just talkin' shit, it's just so fresh to hear a completely new guy that got such a good ear, it's unexpected. His music sounds so mature. And, you know, it's funny that he says with a little smile that this record is his ''Fuck the police'' hahah ok I stop it right there I'm just kidding
yup completely. imagine if he were to work with one of the dres or quiks out there :0
some of that tuxedo funk stuff was with jake one i think and it sounded like a great direction too. im all about the 80s funk, above all else. chromeo have a new LP later this year. tuxedo funk LP please!
http://www.youtube.com/v/v2QRnutVa84
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this album is very Pharrell influenced
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this album is very Pharrell influenced
The way I see it, he really took influences from the best hip hop producers to really push his sound to another level. Not saying he is better than Pharell or Dr Dre (in my opinion it could be better on a mixing level, and his voice can get annoying after a while on some songs), but I'm sure he knows what he's doing. I just like his vision.
Jsut downloaded that Tuxedo EP, shit is 8)
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I'm ashamed I overlooked this. Will find immediately, thanks Matty for making this thread. Also stoked about new Chromeo.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/mtcR4BBet3k&
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http://www.youtube.com/v/spt4G-K61w4
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very dope dope album. Keep us informed with his new stuff matty.
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'smooth dude with the gangsta groove' 8)
http://www.youtube.com/v/D54S_Nio5wI
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First of all, thanks Matty for putting me up on this. Totally slipped under my radar. Well first of all i want to say that Mayer Hawthorne will always have a special place in my music-lovers-heart, because he arguably made the best modern soul album of the last 10 years (A Strange Arrangement). Even thou i was kinda disappointed with his Sophomore release he bounced back with the Tuxedo project and all the little covers he released over time (his version of I left my heart in San Francisco is only second to Tonis version).
This LP is jammin, the beats are on point, and going with the "zeitgeist" the music is very funk influenced just like so many other Major Artist the last couple of years (Bruno Mars, Daft Punk, Chromeo, Pharrell etc.) seems like "funky" tunes are in again, the only difference is that Bruno Mars and Daft Punk took the 80s funk and Boogie as a reference point, whereas Mayer took it back to the late 70s. You can clearly hear the Jazz-Funk influences of that time in this Album (Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Roy Ayers etc.) aswell as some Brazilian stuff from that period like Azymuth, Deodato and so on which is basically the stuff Pharrell is emulating in my opinion.
All in all great LP, but i want a straight Soul album from Mayer Hawthorne again :):
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First of all, thanks Matty for putting me up on this. Totally slipped under my radar. Well first of all i want to say that Mayer Hawthorne will always have a special place in my music-lovers-heart, because he arguably made the best modern soul album of the last 10 years (A Strange Arrangement). Even thou i was kinda disappointed with his Sophomore release he bounced back with the Tuxedo project and all the little covers he released over time (his version of I left my heart in San Francisco is only second to Tonis version).
This LP is jammin, the beats are on point, and going with the "zeitgeist" the music is very funk influenced just like so many other Major Artist the last couple of years (Bruno Mars, Daft Punk, Chromeo, Pharrell etc.) seems like "funky" tunes are in again, the only difference is that Bruno Mars and Daft Punk took the 80s funk and Boogie as a reference point, whereas Mayer took it back to the late 70s. You can clearly hear the Jazz-Funk influences of that time in this Album (Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Roy Ayers etc.) aswell as some Brazilian stuff from that period like Azymuth, Deodato and so on which is basically the stuff Pharrell is emulating in my opinion.
All in all great LP, but i want a straight Soul album from Mayer Hawthorne again :):
well put. i feel the exact same way
a strange arrangement blew my mind back then! still to this day, one of the best soul albums i ever heard