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Turntable Essence [VINYL]

by: Various Artists

Release Date February 04, 2002
This is the type of chilled and quirky hip-hop music you hear in cool backstreet skate shops or record shops, but you're never sure who it's by. It has a cool hip-hop style, but is edgy and different as it is mainly instrumental with a huge jazz influence.
The coolest jazz breakbeats and blues melodies are cut 'n' pasted together and driven by hard, syncopated beats and fat bass lines, along with erratic scratching and neat samples. Some tracks such as the groove of New Rhumba, have an upbeat latin american flavour, with crazy piano ostinatos, others such as Sugarcuts' Duid Deed are slow and smooth, with loitering Portishead-esque bass grooves accompanied by sharp tunes and a plump, bubbling scratchiness. A few of the tracks are taken from ... Read More: