Almost 30 years after the fact, the Water Records reissue of Melvin Van Peebles' What The....You Mean I Can't Sing?, originally issued by Atlantic, is a breath of fresh air. Forget all that blaxploitation jive (the way this record gets labeled in the revisionist 21st century), a categorization white people use to make themselves feel better about something they can't understand or explain. There isn't anything kitschy about What The....You Mean I Can't Sing?. It's hilarious in places, but...   [ read more ]

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Quasimoto is back with 26 tracks and 68 minutes of straight boom music. The Further Adventures find Lord Quas still digging for records, rolling blunts, and smackin' dudes with bricks. Madlib, for his part, appears to have been saving some of his best beats for Quas, and some that others were maybe afraid to touch. Consider the book on Hip Hop thrown out the window. Quas probably smoked it. They've got MF DOOM along for a reprise of the Madvillain-Quas collab on "Closer". They've got M.E.D. from the Lootpa...   [ read more ]

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Musae, of course, feature music, the art of the muses: this issue of Link includes an audio CD packed with eighty minutes of Mobtown's finest unknown pop music, featuring an eclectic mix from Baltimore club music, to hip-hop, to new folk, to electronica, to tracks that are truly unclassifiable. The issue's B-side has to do with museum, the temple of the muses. Link's virtual museum includes original drawings from Cornel Rubino, frequent contributor to the New Yorker, and Shinique Smith; selections from the...   [ read more ]

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