There is one rule: only albums that are good front to back. Most of these can be found on the various streaming services.
BLOCKHEAD
Downtown Science
Downtown Science
Kicking things off with a personal favorite in the instrumental hip hop category. This is by one of Aesop Rock's main producers.
THIN LIZZY
Live and Dangerous
A master class in live performance. Hat tip to my friend Casey for suggesting this one.
THUNDERCAT
Apocalypse
Super spaced out jazz fusion from one of Flying Lotus's collaborators. Hat tip to friends Dirty and Spence for turning me on to this guy.
MURS
The End of the Beginning
This one takes me right back to my last year living in Hattiesburg. This soundtracked many hours of delivering sandwiches and pizza.
SAVALAS BROTHERS
Tough Guy
Thinking
about Hattiesburg days inevitably brought me back to this local
classic. I am not exaggerating when I say the albums from this crew had a
profound effect on me as a young musician. Literally! I bought their
old effects pedals, the computer they produced this on, and equipment to record the earliest Hosey tracks!
I think this is easily one of the two best albums to ever come out of Hattiesburg. And the other one is by the same crew (saving the other for next month's list).
Not on Spotify, but you can stream it at Bandcamp.
I think this is easily one of the two best albums to ever come out of Hattiesburg. And the other one is by the same crew (saving the other for next month's list).
Not on Spotify, but you can stream it at Bandcamp.
TOBACCO
Ultima II Massage
It's
5pm on Friday so the office is quiet and that means I can get a little
weird with this last one. This is just straight up acid trip music.
Highly recommend.
Hat tip to friend Deb for turning me on to this album.
Hat tip to friend Deb for turning me on to this album.
