Name | Digable Planets / Blowout Comb (2xLP Colored Vinyl - Dazed & Amazed Duo Color, Limited Edition) |
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Price | 59,500원 |
결제수단 | 카드 결제, 무통장 입금, 적립금, 실시간 계좌이체 |
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2022 LIMITED EDITIONWe are finally set to reissue Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn-based hip hop trio Digable Planets.
The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.
Like with 1993’s debut Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), ‘utilizing the natural’ meant creating hip hop that blended jazz with the formidable rap skills of the aforementioned Butterfly, Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving and Mary Ann ‘Ladybug Mecca’ Vieira. Unlike that debut, it meant broadening to include guests such as Gang Starr’s Guru, Jeru the Damaja, and Jazzy Joyce.
Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut, they here set out to prove their artistic prowess. This is intelligent, alternative hip hop that sounded like party music. Its lyrics are dense with wit, social commentary and politics – and its original inner sleeve was modeled on the newspaper of the Black Panther movement.
Its instrumentation includes sax, vibraphone and flute. Its samples – gathered from global cratedigging trips while touring the first album around the world – included Grant Green, Eddie Harris, Shuggie Otis and jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers (whose “We Live in Brooklyn, Baby” became “Borough Check” here). And yet at the same time its beats are infectious and its spirit undeniable.
This is an album firmly rooted in Brooklyn. “Growing up hearing and cherishing this album, it created a textured soundscape of a mythical world of rhymes, jazz, breakbeats, culture, art and urban ambiance,” says DJ and fan Mick Boogie in the liner notes. “When I moved to Brooklyn years later, I found that the world I imagined while listening to this classic LP actually really existed…”
Though Digable Planets have reunited on occasion since – and though their influence endures in every top-shelf rap act with a jazzy sensibility – the trio parted ways after Blowout Comb, citing that old favorite "creative differences”. Sometimes, the most volatile combinations create the best art.
The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug
Black Ego
Dog It
Jettin'
Borough Check
Highing Fly
Dial 7 (Axioms Of Creamy Spies)
The Art Of Easing
K.B.'s Alley (Mood Dudes Groove)
Graffiti
Blowing Down
9th Wonder (Blackitolism)
For Corners
힙합 클래식! Digable Planets의 두번째 앨범으로 94년에 발표된 작품이다. 음반사가 홍보를 소홀히 하는 등의 악재가 겹치면서 상업적 성공을 거두는 데에는 실패했지만, 재즈와 힙합 등 음악적 요소를 적절히 잘 결합시켰을 뿐 아니라 가사와 라임 등에서 높은 평가를 얻은 이 앨범은 이들 최고 작품으로 얘기되고 있으며, 당시 빌리지 보이스의 독자 투표에서 최고의 앨범으로 선정됐음은 물론, 스핀 매거진이 당시 선정한 올해의 앨범 5위에 선정되는 등 높은 평가를 얻었다. '가장 저평가 받은 힙합 클래식' 중 하나로 불리우는 이 앨범은 이번 리이슈를 통해 다시 한 번 재평가를 얻고 있다. Guru가 피쳐링으로 참여했으며, 그랜트 그린, 헤드헌터스, 바비 험프리, 밥 제임스 등의 재즈 음악과 미터스, 제임스 브라운, 슈기 오티스 등의 작품이 샘플링 되었다.