 Innerstance.
Beatbox
"All Little Boys Do Silly Little Dances"
CD
Wobblyhead
Genres: turntablism
Wobblyhead
PO Box 511256
Milwaukee WI
53203 USA
May 12 - 18 2003 |
Innerstance.Beatbox
is the work of Jason Todd, a DJ with a bent for jazz samples
and laidback grooves. All Little Boys Do Silly Little Dances
is an accomplished, funky ride through acid jazz and instrumental hip
hop styles that is sure to get you chilling with your headphones for
hours on end. Now it's kind of common to list out a few of the good tracks and
explain why they're successful, but such an exercise would be futile
in the case of All Little Boys... Now I don't mean that
there aren't any good songs on this album, oh heavens no, what I mean
to say is that this album is not really a bunch of songs. Sure,
it's separated into nine tracks on the disc, but the whole thing flows
together so well - and flow is a very important aspect here, I must
say - that it's best looked at as a whole rather than in the form of
different "singles."
Innerstance.Beatbox knows what he's doing. The beats
and bass are tremendously funky on All Little Boys, and the
samples are selected and executed terrifically. Sometimes you
may feel that the album is best suited to being background music,
especially during the more laidback, relaxing parts, while at other
moments it's funky enough to get anyone dancing. To put it bluntly, Innerstance.Beatbox
is a talented DJ and All Little Boys Do Silly Little Dances is
the work of a talented DJ - understand what I'm getting at?
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Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
9 songs, distributed by Darla, released 2003] |
