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Release Date: 06/19/2007
Teaming up again with
[adult swim] to release another compilation of quirky, off-beat
hip-hop and
soul,
Stones Throw's
Chrome Children, Vol. 2 is as varied and interesting as the first edition, with new, previously unreleased tracks from, among others,
Percee P,
Guilty Simpson,
MED,
James Pants, and of course,
Madlib -- who shows up only three times here, twice as
the Beat Konducta, hinting at his album of Indian-inspired beats to come with
"Selah's Children," and once as
the Jazzistics, one of his many
avant-garde jazz associations, and whose track
"Marcus, Martin and Malcolm" is set to appear on the upcoming
Yesterday's New Quintet record. There's some really great material here:
Aloe Blacc shows off his skills as a rapper in the eerily catchy
"Happy Now?," the late
Clifford Nyren is paid tribute to on
"Keep Running Away," a song that had already gotten a fair amount of attention after its reissue by
Now Again, and
Oh No proves that he has a talent equal to that of his brother's on
"Gitback." This isn't your average compilation, that's for sure, and even though the tracks move from more straightforward underground
hip-hop (
MED's
"Rhymes with an L") to
electro (courtesy of
N.W.A's
Arabian Prince on
"Strange Life") to smooth, L.A.
neo-soul (
Gary Wilson's
"Soul Traveling"), it all very much fits together, quirky and spacey and laced gently with marijuana references, a good showing from
Stones Throw, definitely promising an interesting, and eclectic, future.
~Marisa Brown, All Music Guide
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