Ganga

but never the less GOOD old news.
And as with most other good music,  it doesnt matter so much how old we are – I mean – the tracks are.
In this case the tracks are 8 years old.
So they just started school I guess. Lets see how they look when they look at the retirement age – are we still listening to them, or do we think they are out of style and place them on a shelve.
I think not, these are all great track from the downtempo maestro DJ Krush.
Its hip hop, but with so much other stuff added to the production, so it could have fooled your ears here and there.
Listening to “Danger of Love” – great voice – Zap Mama I think provides these chilled vocals. They really have a nice edge to them – the Horace Andy quality.
This must be a downtempo classic if there ever was one. Really smooth and mellow grroves and nice voices and instruments – some ethnic sounding stuff as well. And vibes – playable vibes that is – starts out the whole thing with the flute track “Song 1″ (Cant imagine it took so long for an artist to finally have the guts to release a song with a name like that). Nice ethnic flute and breaks that fits perfectly.
Some hypnotic synt or lower vibes get your mind confused and it all ends up in a beautiful corner of your mind – blocking your view of all the small parts its put together from- like it should be.
Okay, moving down the track line, here is a bit of humor in “Duckchase” – with a strange duck sound continuing throughout the track – I can see where the name came from, but its more funny than good in my opinion. Nice production though – really cool rhytmic flow – ….hmm. okay, I give up… its actually also a very cool track with some fantastic scratching – sound slike scratching anyway – sscratching a … yes scratching a duck ofcourse. Christmas tune maybe (danish christmas ritual)
Here is the list of personnel on the cd:
DJ Krush, Black Thought, Zap Mama, Tunde Ayanyemi, PhonosycographDISK, Company Flow, Kazufumi Kodama, N’Dea Davenport, Boss The MC, Ahmir “?uestlove” Thompson, Kukoo Da Baga Bonez, Sunja Lee.
I can recommend this journey – its a nice one, with just enough of surprises to keep you interested – even if you are not into hip hop, you can definitely chill on the couch to this one, or take a little slow dance on the coffee table.

Tags: Chill Out, DJ Krush, Downbeat, Ganga, Zap Mama, Zen

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