Since We Last Spoke

Track Listings

1. Since We Last Spoke

2. Exotic Talk

3. 1976

4. Ring Finger

5. Making Days Longer

6. Someone's Second Kiss

7. To All of You

8. Clean Living

9. Iced Lightning

10. Intro

11. Through the Walls

12. One Day

Since We Last Spoke,Rjd2,Definitive Jux,Alternative Rap,Hip-Hop,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Underground Rap

Since We Last Spoke

Since We Last Spoke

Average customer rating:

simply great music

Nice

Nice, but can't beat deadringer

Real Artsy, Man

Can you say "classic?"

Since We Last Spoke
Rjd2
Manufacturer: Definitive Jux
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Experimental Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
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ASIN: B0001N6MMQ
Release Date: 2004-05-18

Tracks:

Since We Last Spoke
Exotic Talk
Since '76
Ring Finger
Making Days Longer
Someone's Second Kiss
To All Of You
Iced Lightning
Clean Living
Intro
Through The Walls
One Day

Customer Reviews:

simply great music.......2006-10-27

this was my first RJD2 album and I loved it. RJ has a wonderful talent as a DJ to piece together various styles of music in a manner I've yet to hear from another DJ. RJ is a hip-hop DJ (you can find him paired up underground rapper Blueprint, to form the group Soul Position), but I wouldn't consider this to be instrumental hip-hop. This is just fresh sounding music and truely a great album. I actually prefer this to Deadringer, even though many would disagree with me.

Nice.......2006-05-04

Rjd2 is nice, but a number of his songs tend to follow a very similar run down chord progression, and there's the feeling that some of the songs didn't sound all that different in their original non-sampled form, less so on this album, more so on the previous. Though, they're good songs. If i were to rate them on their production/sampling originality, i'd have to go 3 stars, but i'm going to rate them on their good songness factor.

On a side note, at only two places this album finds Rjd2 experimenting with a sort of Cornelius sound, and it doesn't go all that well. But the rest of the album far covers for it in to making it appear charming, rather than not.

Nice, but can't beat deadringer.......2006-05-02

I have a lot of respect for RJD2, when i got his album Deadringer i couldn't stop listening to it daily. This release is also definitely worth buying, but not if you don't have Deadringer yet.

Real Artsy, Man.......2005-10-03

Are any of you old enough to wonder where all those really crappy, anonymous records that seemed so "progressive" at the time you bought them wound up after you traded them in to get money for new vinyl? It would appear that they found their way into Rjd2's record collection, where they serve as the raw material for this collage of amateaur-hour, mid-70's "progressive" guitar rock. No matter how good a turntablist you are (and R is somewhat above average) you can't get blood out of a stone--and practically everything sampled on this album qualifies as a real lump of coal. Sorry, son, but this kind of music was deservedly dismissed about 30 years ago and, unlike some great music of the time that was UNdeservedly relegated to obscurity and then resurrected by a new generation of discerning music lovers (the Dramatics, the Styistics, the Chi-Lites, the Delfonics, Caravan, Soft Machine, Jade Warrior, Captain Beefheart etc.), this treacle deserves to lie undisturbed in that dusty resting place where bad albums go to die. So much of modern retro seems to be based on the premise that some things were so ridiculously bad that, going roundabout on the uncool-cool continuum, they actually are incredibly cool (like Turquoise table-top rotary phones). I like colorful phones as much as the next person, but some things are just plain lousy. Like the music on this album. And making a collage out of it, no matter how skillfully put together, can't eliminate the fact that some music is so bad that it's actually...really bad. Two stars, then , for Rjd2's promise as a turntablist. By the way, the people my age (47) for whom I've played "Since" (who love DJ Krush, Cam, Coldcut and Ursula 1000, for example) consider this a joke, as if their kid got into the records that have migrated from the shelves to the attic, picked out the worst ones, and is playing them for all his friends and bragging about how "cool" Dad used to be. Thanks a lot, son.

Can you say "classic?".......2005-06-21

The term "classic" is thrown around far too much in the music industry, but this album is worthy of the title. This is great, uplifting music that fans of any genre can enjoy. Some of the real standout tracks are "Since We Last Spoke," "Exotic Talk," "1976," "Iced Lightning," and especially "Clean Living." There is only one song on this entire album that I skip. There's some really bad singer on "Making Days Longer," and it kind of ruins the song. This guy is an expert instrumentalist and DJ, and should be ranked among some of the greatest electronic musicians out there.