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| 1. The Arrival | |||
| 2. A New Dynasty | |||
| 3. It's All Memories | |||
| 4. Remember The Name | |||
| 5. Open The Door | |||
| 6. Gotta Go | |||
| 7. Mai's Theme | |||
| 8. Words Of Encouragement | |||
| 9. Trapped | |||
| 10. One For The Wu | |||
| 11. No Matter What | |||
| 12. Meet The Queen | |||
| 13. Stay With Me | |||
| 14. Opium Delirium | |||
| 15. Cold Blooded | |||
| 16. Where I'm From | |||
| 17. Still Broke | |||
| 18. Snakes & Smoke | |||
| 19. Mai's Theme | |||
| 20. Raw Shit | |||
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Same Same But Different , the familiar phrase heard throughout South East Asia, is a perfect description to characterize Onra s latest project, a follow up to his 2007 LP Chinoiseries . So almost five years later, here we go back on the trail of another Asian beat journey with 32 hip hop instrumentals inspired by Chinese and Vietnamese music. A lot has happened since then, not least the widespread acclaim for 2010 s boogie-tinged album Long Distance , while along the way he s revisited South East Asia on a few occasions, adding to his Asian record stack each time. The exotic, mysterious pop and folk Chinese records of the 60s and 70s may not seem the easiest source material, with their epic operatic and orchestral feel, untouched by the Western counter culture rumblings of the time, and alive with vintage vinyl hiss and crackle, but after hermetically sealing himself in his Paris beat cave, Onra has emerged with a more than worthy return for all the time and money spent in the vinyl basements and backrooms of the Far East. There's ample variation but a coherent whole, from the more electronic feel of A New Dynasty and All Night , to the soundtrack vibe of Mai's Theme and Fight Or Die and the straight beat sound of No Matter What and Remember The Name , and he's even found some breaks! Inspired by the idea of the LP as a sequence of film scenes, this intense burst of beats and distinct vibes form an accomplished, rounded work.
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The Parisian producer apparently went to his native Vietnam on a holiday and found a load of records, brought them back to France and sampled them into hip hop breaks. That was Chin' vol 1, finely exampled by his switch of the "war" sample from 6/8 time to standard 4/4 but lacking a good drum beat. This is vol 2 and I think the best jams are "Gotta Go" and "Mrs Ho" although really I could reel off two thirds of tracks that are my favs like a good art book where you convince yourself that THIS is your fav piece and then you flick the page and you're like, "now this one's my fav," and so on. It's just a refreshing joint right the way through cuz of the different vernacular that he gets from instruments and styles not usually shaped into the genre. Obviously with a departure from the usual, the propensity for it to sound wrong is high, but he really nails pretty much every one. More, he produces the drums and bass maybe to a Dilla standard on a lot of them, with a lot of tape-sounding distortion on those added elements to congrue the dusty samples and also to give that "loud" hip hop sound where it almost feels a bit too big for your speakers, which is a mature thing. Basically the main lesson is that there aren't too many soul samples left and I think hip hop's been getting a bad name not only for the commercialisation and boxer promo talk-up, flopping the fight, but the desperation of the producer's sampling, epitomised by Kanye. They all need to get over to Vietnam and check some new flavours... I could write a lot more but I'll leave it for someone else. 4 or 5 stars.
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