”Stones Throw”と”Adult Swim”によるコラボ第2弾!Madlib the Beat Konductによるゲーム音を使用したビートで幕を開け、DabryプロデュースのイルなMED「Rhymes With An L」、前作に続きまたもや素晴らしい曲を提供しているRoc C「Living For The City」は、Oh NoプロデュースによるThe Melton Brothersの傑作フリー・ソウルナンバー「Living In The City」使いの心地よいメロウ・トラックが最高の1曲!そしてBaron Zen「Theme」のDanny BreaksによるRemix、Four Tet「A Joy」でも素晴らしいコンビネーションをみせていたPercee P & Koushikによる「Reverse Part Two」、そのFour Tetが手掛けたイルなビート上でJ Dillaの秘蔵っ子Guilty Simpsonのライムが炸裂する「Money Motivated Movements」、同じくFour TetとAloe Blaccによる魅惑のコンビネーション曲「Happy Now ?」、さらにGary Wilson、Clifford Nyren、The Jazzisticsといったジャズ・ファンク・ナンバーからなる後半も素晴らしく、今回も見逃せない充実ぶりです。
タワーレコード(2009/04/08)
Teaming up again with [adult swim] to release another compilation of quirky, off-beat hip-hop and soul, Stones Throw's Chrome Children, Vol. 2 is as varied and interesting as the first edition, with new, previously unreleased tracks from, among others, Percee P, Guilty Simpson, MED, James Pants, and of course, Madlib -- who shows up only three times here, twice as the Beat Konducta, hinting at his album of Indian-inspired beats to come with "Selah's Children," and once as the Jazzistics, one of his many avant-garde jazz associations, and whose track "Marcus, Martin and Malcolm" is set to appear on the upcoming Yesterday's New Quintet record. There's some really great material here: Aloe Blacc shows off his skills as a rapper in the eerily catchy "Happy Now?," the late Clifford Nyren is paid tribute to on "Keep Running Away," a song that had already gotten a fair amount of attention after its reissue by Now Again, and Oh No proves that he has a talent equal to that of his brother's on "Gitback." This isn't your average compilation, that's for sure, and even though the tracks move from more straightforward underground hip-hop (MED's "Rhymes with an L") to electro (courtesy of N.W.A's Arabian Prince on "Strange Life") to smooth, L.A. neo-soul (Gary Wilson's "Soul Traveling"), it all very much fits together, quirky and spacey and laced gently with marijuana references, a good showing from Stones Throw, definitely promising an interesting, and eclectic, future. ~ Marisa Brown|
Rovi
Teaming up again with [adult swim] to release another compilation of quirky, off-beat hip-hop and soul, Stones Throw's Chrome Children, Vol. 2 is as varied and interesting as the first edition, with new, previously unreleased tracks from, among others, Percee P, Guilty Simpson, MED, James Pants, and of course, Madlib -- who shows up only three times here, twice as the Beat Konducta, hinting at his album of Indian-inspired beats to come with "Selah's Children," and once as the Jazzistics, one of his many avant-garde jazz associations, and whose track "Marcus, Martin and Malcolm" is set to appear on the upcoming Yesterday's New Quintet record. There's some really great material here: Aloe Blacc shows off his skills as a rapper in the eerily catchy "Happy Now?," the late Clifford Nyren is paid tribute to on "Keep Running Away," a song that had already gotten a fair amount of attention after its reissue by Now Again, and Oh No proves that he has a talent equal to that of his brother's on "Gitback." This isn't your average compilation, that's for sure, and even though the tracks move from more straightforward underground hip-hop (MED's "Rhymes with an L") to electro (courtesy of N.W.A's Arabian Prince on "Strange Life") to smooth, L.A. neo-soul (Gary Wilson's "Soul Traveling"), it all very much fits together, quirky and spacey and laced gently with marijuana references, a good showing from Stones Throw, definitely promising an interesting, and eclectic, future. ~ Marisa Brown
Rovi
昨年話題を呼んだストーンズ・スロウとアニメ・チャンネル〈Adult Swim〉のコラボ・コンピに第2弾が早くも登場。今回もマッドリブを筆頭に、オー・ノーやメッドといったストーンズ・スロウ印の強力なメンツが楽曲を提供し、他にもエレクトロニカ界屈指のクリエイターであるフォー・テットが参加するなど、前作同様に聴き応え十分な仕上がり。ハイ・クォリティーかつ多彩なサウンドスケープをぜひご堪能あれ!!
bounce (C)卯之田 吉晴
タワーレコード(2007年07月号掲載 (P89))