Double Cup 10 Year Anniversary＜Colored Vinyl＞

シカゴ在住のフットワークのパイオニア、故DJ Rashadのデビュー・スタジオ・アルバム『Double Cup』が、10周年を記念してリイシュー。

『Double Cup』のリイシューは、この記念すべきレコードの10周年を記念して、2023年12月にリリースされる。このアルバムは、シカゴ在住のフットワークのパイオニア、故DJ Rashadのデビュー・スタジオ・アルバムである。2013年にリリースされ、Pitchfork、The Guardian、Resident Advisor、Dazed、Resident Advisor、Crack Magazine、The Wire、Complexの年間ベストアルバムにもランクイン。また、Pitchfork、Noise、SPINのディケイド・リストにも選ばれている。また、Rolling Stoneは「重さを感じさせないが、残酷なほどパワフル」、Pitchforkは「フットワーク関連のLPでは疑いなく最強」、NMEは「前代未聞」と同作を評している。Jlin、Kode9、Sherelle、Addison Groove、DJ Spinn、DJ Manny、DJ Earlがゲスト参加。

To varying degrees, genres like Jamaican dancehall, banging techno, ghetto-tech, and even hip-hop live and thrive outside the album format. Their primary audience consumes the music through live DJ sets, mixes on radio, mixtapes, mash-ups, and all sorts of mixed whatnot, and with the hyper dance music out of Chicago called "footwork", the bpms are so fast and the music is so minimal, a kinetic mix set in a club is the genre's best listening environment. DJ Rashad's previous work fits easily in this category, with his remix of "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" and his hit track "Teknitian" both being examples of pummeling, hectic, sample-packed miniatures. Bumping the two together will total up to four-minutes, while the average footwork DJ would weave his way in, and out, of these cuts in about a minute, minute-and-a-half tops. Flipping the script, Rashad's Double Cup might refer to the amount of "lean" the average footwork fanatic needs to drink to endure these often three-minute, sometimes even four-minute, bangers, and while drums still pound and tight loops still hypnotize, the producer's exploration of long-legged house music and other chilly genres helps make these new, comparatively epic track lengths quite necessary. "Show U How" sounds like a horribly scratched disco CD skipping in the most exciting way possible, and yet, Rashad pulls some soul out of the shards, dropping the beat in the middle of the cut and creating something decidedly for the home listener. Weekend tokers and couch-lock regulars can expect titles like "Pass That Shit" and "Drank, Kush, Barz" to be the broken, bud smokers anthems they promise, but it's the closing "I'm Too Hi" that takes the cannabis cup, crossing into a prog-rock territory stoned groove and a 7:41 runtime, plus a very necessary keyboard outro that sounds like water was poured down the back of a robot Bernie Worrell. Everything seems to be malfunctioning on the album, and yet, Rashad loves the genres he borrows from so much, he can't ignore the solid grip of acid house ("Acid Bit") or the sweet slide of R&B ("She a Go"). These sparking satellites all remain in their respective groove's orbit, making Double Cup footwork's most sensible and revisit-worthy album to date. ~ David Jeffries

マイク・パラディナスがシカゴの路上からピックアップし、いまやさまざまなフィールドに飛び火した進化の秘薬ジューク。そのスターの一人であるラシャドが初の正規流通アルバムを発表です! 意味深に刻まれた言葉やシンセ・フレーズの断片を荒々しいビート上でループして独特の浮遊感を生み出すジュークの醍醐味が存分に詰まった内容で、切なげなコード進行も手伝ってか〈スイカに塩〉的な裏腹の甘味が心地良～い。
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