Oh No - Dr No's Oxperiment (2007)

[crds]

Oh No
Dr No's Oxperiment
Stones Throw

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Being the younger brother of a producer that is heralded as a marvel in own right is always going to be cause fans and listeners to find similarities and comparisons, however for those that have followed Oh No's career will know that he never had any attention of being a second Madlib and set out to stamp his own mark over great production synonymous with cleverly chopped up samples, hard drums and trembling bass.

Micheal “Oh No” Jackson actually taught himself the fine art of Hip Hop production gear when Madlib would leave the room and this album of awesome instrumentals show s that talent clearly runs deep in that family.

Oh No has amassed a collage of samples off records from the Middle East, Turkey, India,Greece and compliments them with his signature drums and sound.

One big difference between the 2 brothers is that Oh No's production is a lot cleaner than Madlib's often unfinished sounding beats and it is interesting to think that perhaps, Madlib and Oh No worked on their collective instrumental albums, without knowledge of what the other was working on, either way Oh No has the better album and this is thirty short tracks of fantastic production you need to get acquainted with pronto.

8.5/10

[002]

This shit is bangin!! cats like Prolifical and bigben are gonna love this one!

Oh No’s third full-length on Stones Throw, Dr. No’s Oxperiment is something new – futuristic hip-hop sourced from samples that most people will never hear. Stones Throw GM Egon offered the West Coast producer access to his expansive library of rare vinyl from Turkey, Greece, Lebanon and Italy. After first hearing the opening bars of a rare Turkish psych 7-inch, Oh No instantly knew Egon was on to something. Next thing you know, Oh No is digging through Egon’s private stash of those countries’ finest in ’60s and ’70s psych, jazz, funk, rock, Anatolian folk, Mediterranean Bazouka rock, and more. The result is 28 tracks of music that defies categorization. It’s not that generic Bollywood rip-off style that hip-hop producers curried to death over the past six years. It’s definitely not your run-of-the-mill “sample some ill breaks” shit. What Oh No has achieved is a cross-generation, cross-cultural, cross-genre collaboration between the inhabitants of the Bosphorus and a funky producer from the Ox.

you can hear this shit here: http://www.undergroundhiphop.com/sto...?UPC=STH2165CD

p.e.a.c.e.

[002]

uppin

[rainbow]

Exodus Into Unheard Rhythms was one of my favourite albums of last year, so ill check this out.

[Suga Duga]

the WTF beat on the disrupt was crazy