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do you prefer DIGABLE PLANETS or SHABAZZ PALACES?
Digable Planets were pretty much perfect i think. Shabazz Palaces are good too but i've not listened to them so much.
what did Ishmael Butler do in between times?
Digable Planets were pretty much perfect i think. Shabazz Palaces are good too but i've not listened to them so much.
what did Ishmael Butler do in between times?
i've only heard the first Shabazz Palaces album i think. it's really good.
http://www.tinymixtapes.com/music-review/shabazz-palaces-lese-majesty
Where would you recommend starting with Digible Planets?
Blowout Comb
just got reissued too
I'd say start with the 1st album then go to Blowout Comb
altho apples n oranges cos there was only two releases and they are both awesome.
this video
great all round nostalgia hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLfa1gooPkI
He did Cherrywine!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfaEVC1Ruak
I think I like them both, but Digable definitely sounds kinda sepia tinted and dated these days in that good golden age of afro centric hip hop style.
Feel like its aged a little better than SOME tribe called quest & de la soul
Digable Planets
cos I'm old school. Shabazz is great too though
Like them both a lot
Reachin' (A New Refutation of Time and Space) has aged really well. Production is so good.
Would not want to decide since they are very different.
DP are more immediately listenable and probably have had more of an impact on my music taste but SB are pretty singular in what they are bringing to the hip hop landscape. Production and sound design is superb for both acts. Reachin still sounds awesome.
Actually, part of what I admire about SB is how different a project it is.
Leading another group, 2 decades on, that's practically incomparable and still cutting edge is some rare shit in any genre.
For sure.
And doing it without shaking a cane or coming off like an old-head try hard is a feat in itself.
Not listened to much Digable Planets
but I like both Shabazz Palaces albyooms. Both growers, but both have really great moments that are immediate, too.