Am I the only person who thinks this stuff is horribly naff? I picked up a few DJ olive affiliated records (cant remeber off teh top of my head) when he was getting regular props in the wire and it never seemed any more than quite hackneyed art bar goatee chillout. Is there some amazing parts of the catalogue I should check out?
well UR rite a lot of it was weak, none of the labels exempted. but there were enough bright (er... dark?) moments for me to be totally into it back then. hard to make recommendations as a lot of it is about finding a couple great cuts on otherwise shit album...
on Wordsound the compilation series like Certified Dope and Subterranean Hits for instance -- but when it was dope it was
really dope, and very inspirational for me personally -- arabic flutes on top of doomsday hiphop and skewed fucked up rap. i guess Spectre's "Seven" album was pretty solid through out, if a bit limited (Bassnation used one of the songs on his bloggariddim; it was also on the Force Inc. Electric Ladyland series of abstract hiphop - also worth tracking down, the first 4 were solid)
on Asphodel back in the day i never felt those Olive solo albums which bordered on boring triphop. but i can 100% vouch for the first WE album "As Is". the Jame Plotkin and Mick Harris things i enjoyed at the time, as did the Incursions in Illbient compilation, the Byzar album, and as much as i hate on the pretentious bullshitter, dj spooky's first album Songs of a Dead Dreamer was good at the time (now prolly weak though). i have massive respect for and love love love Badawi's stuff though, always have, both old and new material.
gosh, that's enough tripping down memory lane for an entire month i reckon
