Morphine- Cure for Pain (1993)

Morphine is a band I got into around the same time as I did Soul Coughing. They share in that they both had a unique sound compared to what was going on around them. With Morphine, their lineup alone qualified them in uniqueness: a trio consisting of bassist/ singer, baritone sax and drums, they wrote dark rhythmic tunes with nice vocals and hooks. Dark basically explains their songs and sound pretty well, but that is a statement I am just remembering as the impression I have hung on to through years of not-listening. Picking them up againwill be neat; I always enjoyed them, especially in tracks like Buena off Cure for Pain:




cure for pain

Slum Village- Fan-Tas-Tic vol. 1 and 2

Thanks go out to Greg V for this one. Slum Village were originally a crew of 3 highschool friends who liked making music together. Except those three friends consisted of J Dilla, Baatan and T3, and naturally with that kind of line up, they were producing some of the root tasty tracks Dilla refined and is still widely acclaimed for. Volume 1 was a highly sought after underground hit recorded in 1996 (though it was released in 2005), with Volume 2 serving as a more polished product of re-recordings and re-imaginings of tracks from Volume 1. With Dilla as the beat conductor, both volumes are necessary; subtlety and intricacy was his game, and with freestlying being the main rhyming style of Baatan and T3, there are vast differences between the two albums.

fan-tas-tic vol. 1
fan-tas-tic vol. 2