Thursday, September 27, 2007

Blockhead Live in NYC

Blockhead has always been my favorite post-Shadow instrumental hip-hop producer - his songs have so much built-in style and yet still retain a very natural feel. This bootleg, however, takes him up a whole other notch in my book. Recorded in 2004, it features mostly songs off of "Music By Cavelight", and here Blockhead just goes fucking bonkers, throwing in Phil Collins and M.J. vocals, old school rap samples, harmonicas, Bon Jovi guitar - the randomest storm of shit over these very simple songs...and makes it all fit together perfectly. In fact, I find myself preferring the versions on this set to his album versions almost completely. Give it a listen:




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5 comments:

CK said...

Very good stuff. I've been listening to this guy for a while now, and he's never failed to impress me.

(great first month on the site, lets keep this quality up!)

brynna said...

Wow...I think it starts to get *great* around minute 34. And there's that Clash sample again - I'm a sucker for it everytime. The new new hot shit

Bestest Asbestos said...

Great quality for a live recording cant wait to bump at work tomorrow...

Los Dawg said...

WOW, this shit is poppin, unbelievable - that swap between knight rider and queen, whew! god damn that was good.

D NTZ said...

wow... I think I missed out - can someone possibly re-up?