vladislav delay for me.
submerged ambient dub. tbf i never really listened to actress. there's that bassline fm track which my mates like and im like ehh.
Joy Orbison's arrival felt like something.
a dark time. was talking to crowl about this the other day.
MOP Ante Up
Chronic 2001
Both took commercial hiphop in a square beat direction. Before that there was usually some swing, some syncopation.
luka said something a while back about hearing Wiley and Dizzee on radio in the early 2000s and feeling as though some sort of seismic shift had just taken place, the other guys doing the 'garage voice' instantly sounding old hat.
Hearing Aquemi - I bought it unheard after reading The Source review (5 mikes IIRC) signified something totally new (to me, in the UK) was at work in hip hop - I genuinely couldn't make sense of that record at all, it really did my head in. Didn't really understand it's significance either but I knew it was something different. Arguing with completely sad Nas fans/4 elements purists in my early incursions on messages boards at around the same time kinda showed me old school rap's conservative face.