Spinning

I've been in a hip hop mood all of a sudden. Digging the last Non Prophets album Hope and the leaked Jaylib and MF Doom Are Madvillain album. The first has a nice laid back beat and solid production work by Joe Beats which reaches back towards an earlier era of hip hop. The latter is a series of cuts Jaylib had put on a mix tape to take to Brazil with him. The Madvillain album is out now and I'll have to get that soon. Rounding things out, I've been listening to Oval's 94 Diskont, a glitch electronic album with an ethereal initial 24 minute track that barely seems a song at all until it slowly reveals the music's patterns, and Nigasa Ni Te's Feel. The latter is a Japanese indie rock duo whose stripped back lo-fi album owes a bit to the Velvet Underground and Nick Drake.