and the award for best album released today goes to:

[mark414]

everyone who considers themselves a fan of music...should probably go pick this up, NOW

His name is already attached to three of underground rap's seminal releases (Lootpack's Soundpieces: Da Antidote!, Madvillain's Madvillainy, and the first Quasimoto LP, The Unseen), so it can't come as a large surprise that Madlib's return of Lord Quas takes its place right alongside them.

While on The Unseen, he moved through the streets like a ghost, Further Adventures finds him a streetwise inhabitant of his Lost Gates neighborhood, with nearly every possible permutation of inner-city vignette covered on tracks like "Bus Ride," "Hydrant Game," "1994," "Fatbacks," and "Raw Deal." It's a vision of urban life that's half-Fat Albert and half-Sweet Sweetback (the latter no accident, with the inclusion of vintage Melvin Van Peebles film dialogue on eight tracks, much of it ingeniously interwoven with Quasimoto's new performances). Not that Further Adventures could be described as linear — these 26 tracks actually conceal close to 50 individual skits, grooves, sci-fi dialogue, educational records, and pot fantasies — but Madlib has formed a tighter frame around his productions than ever before.

The sound, what's recognizable of it, expands on Madlib's base of soul and jazz-funk, adding snatches of '80s urban and '70s smooth soul, the perfect bed for these tales. For the most part, Quas doesn't allow himself any nostalgia, but when he does, it becomes almost a little poignant, as on "Rappcats, Pt. 3" (where he shouts out to all his favorite old-school rappers) or the point on "Bartender Say" when the wisdom yields this little nugget: "What's the prettiest thing you ever seen?/ The sun pushing down, making things grow/The silence in the dawn when a car goes past."

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:4fo7gj4r56ic

[frylock]

1. i'l give it a listen..

however I have to admit that I don't care for Quas as a spitter; he sounds like Melvin Barcliff (aka Magoo) on a helium binge. Quas is one of my fav producers though.

[mark414]

3. it took me awhile to get used to it

but once i warmed up to it...i can't get enough

check out the video

http://www.rappcats.com

[jonnyblitz]

2. yeah.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[mark414]

4. yeahhh jonny

i don't know if you saw my message a couple days back but your sleeve is SICK

i'm going in for my appointment next weekend...i will try to get some pictures

[mark414]

5. remember that song i love my mama by mr t?

sigh...kick