And Now, the Legacy Begins
And Now, the Legacy Begins
表演者: Dream Warriors
介质: Audio CD
发行时间: 1991-04-23
唱片数: 1
出版者: Fourth & Bway/Pgd
条形码: 0042284686129
专辑简介
Although the Dream Warriors' debut was released in 1991--the same year as De La Soul Is Dead and Definition of Sound's Love & Life--the album never received proper recognition. Mixing together jazz (the first song is "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style," which out-loops anything Us3 ever did) and pop, crossing De La's "D.A.I.S.Y. Age" sensibilities with P.M. Dawn's summery touch, and laying down one hell of a groove, the Dream Warriors stepped up to the pitch--only no one showed up to play the field. Years later the album sounds just as good as it did back then. --Randy Silver
Description
Perhaps one of hip-hop's most overlooked LPs AND NOW THE LEGACY BEGINS was dismissed as "happy rap" by many listeners but garnered plenty of respect from other musical practitioners (they went on to collaborate with everybody from legendary Detroit jazzman Slim Gaillard to Gang Starr). The duo's first single "My Definition Of A Boombastic Jazz Style" hit somewhere between the abstraction of De La Soul and the goofiness of Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, effectively polarisingtheir audience into alterna-rap fans and hard-core skeptics.
The album does contain generous amounts of jazz-inflected grooves which anticipated the success of Digable Planets,Jazzmatazz and the entire acid jazz sub-genre (in fact it was a review of this album that occasioned the first usage ofthat term in the U.S. music press). However, a thorough listen reveals a whole range of darker tones. The title track even manages to make the synth hook from Tom Tom Club's "Genius Of Love" sound ominous, while lyrically, King Lou and Capital Q cobble together a highly individual vocabulary out ofreferences to comic books, Star Wars and D&D to articulate their experiences coming up in Toronto's Jane & Finch housing projects.
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