too funny, I was just listening to that album (Paid In Full) in the car earlier, thinking about 10th grade at Mumford.
-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Duke Cognition Audioworks new email address [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 10:46 AM To: [email protected]; list 313 Subject: Re: (313) Looking busy (well busier than usual) - Omar S On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:01 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Alrighty? > > not heard much chat about the Omar S album (and he's got a smooth Deep > House thing out with Colonel Abrams too - Shadow Ray mix is pretty > nice). The album is CD only (I think) and is called "It Can Be Done, > But Only I Can Do It" (Bonus point for anyone who knows what late 80's > Hip Hop gem he takes that from?) ***I Know you got soul, yeah, if you didn't you wouldn't be in here... Eric B & Rakim! :) > > It's a pretty surprising bunch of tracks with a load of 80's Chicago > Trax influences overtaking the usual Detroit deep chords and shuffling > rhythms he's more usually associated with. I blow hot and cold with > Omar so I wasn't really expecting much from it, maybe that's why I > ended up enjoying it so much. It kind of sounds like it was done in > one big long session over a week or so - most of the tracks have the > same production style, drum sounds and so on but maybe because of that > it's a cohesive listen as an album which isn't always easy to achieve. > Except for the cringe inducing "Porno vocal soundtrack over sad > chords" tracks that is cliched beyond words :) > > > Not from Detroit but the new Martyn 12" is pretty damn fine and if it > was released 10 years ago would most certainly have went in the > "Detroit New Releases" section in many stores :) > > cheers > > Jason > -- http://soundcloud.com/andrewdukecognitionaudio http://myspace.com/andrewduke
