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The label responsible for its release, Stones Throw, outlines the man’s intentions on its website: "This is not a DJ album, not a beats album, not a mixtape – this is an original work of instrumental hip hop". And that’s exactly what the 12 tracks of Some Cold Rock Stuf deliver, to the standard one would expect from an artist who has rubbed shoulders with so many greats during his career.
Granted, there are few surprises here – if you own Dilla’s seminal Donuts LP, then you’re already schooled enough in roughly what to expect from this set. Like said stylistic cousin, Some Cold Rock Stuf mixes snatches of vocal samples with beats that engage with immediate effect. Little here is made with cerebral massage in mind; instead the focus is placed on seeing toes, feet, and quite probably tushies move about a bit.
The title Party is anything but ironic, the seven-minute track of parping horns, eastern percussion and Bollywood vibes a perfect fit for any dancefloor. Play This (Also) is the sort of hyperactive funk workout that one imagines Bootsy Collins making if he ever collaborated with The Go! Team, and Too Many Clowns is similarly twitchy of structure, all skittering drums and bubbly bass.
The album takes the occasional turn for the down-tempo, and when it does so there’s a line to be traced back to the enveloping soundworld crafted by DJ Shadow and David Holmes in the mid-1990s – Stay Fresh and Chasing the Sun turn the lights down and the atmosphere up. Elsewhere, woozy productions march towards the same hazy horizons as today’s chillwave crowd – Toro y Moi fans, check out the phantasmagoria of Don’t Sell Your Dream (Tonight).
A long time coming it may have been, but Some Cold Rock Stuf is a disc worth spending plenty of time with after waiting more than a while for. He’s his label’s pick for the "world’s greatest hip hop DJ", and after hearing this many more will side with the opinion.
--Mike Diver
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Finally got this lp two days ago and have been listening to it over and over. It sounds like the contemplative party album that DJ Shadow might've made if he didn't fall off so hard after Private Press. I mean that as the ultimate compliment to J. ROCC, in that this record, like Shadow's best work, contains tracks that stretch out and breathe without ever getting boring or conspicuously repeating themselves.
The album has a few DJ cut collages- "Rocchead's Delight" being a nod to the first De La album, and "Too Many Clowns," which cuts up Nas' voice. It's got the kind of beats that will make people freestyle, it's got beats that will make people wanna mix drinks and get loose, and it's got the kind of pensive interludes that give the record a serious, austere quality. That's not to say the album isn't light hearted and even funny, because it is in places.
My favorite track (for now) is "Malcolm was here (parts 1 + 2)," which travels seamlessly from jazz (trumpet, bass, drums) to headnod jeep music.
If you like those first records by Shadow, Dilla Donuts, Flying Lotus' Los Angeles, the Beat Konducta series, or Oh No's instrumental albums, get this. One solid, well crafted beat after the next. Records like this one stand as the strongest argument there is for sampling and turntablism as a means of creating fresh art out of years of culural detritis.
Oh, and the bonus disk was hot also. Much humor, variety, idea flow, and of course, BEATS!!!
You don't think about nothing, you just let it go...all of the tracks are good, the beat selection is on point and you really get into the groove of the album. I haven't listened the mistery disc yet but I believe it's gonna be on the same level of the "official" cd.
If you enjoy listening to some instrumental stuff then this album is for you. It worths every cent spend on it.
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