{"id":317,"date":"2006-10-11T11:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2006-10-11T11:00:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T10:00:06","slug":"dj-yoda-the-amazing-adventures-of-dj-yoda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"dj yoda &#8211; the amazing adventures of dj yoda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">after years of thrilling crowds with his deft  turntable skills, his unique film+dialogue cutup experiments, and his well  received fun filled thug free mixtapes, the man with the george lucas fixation  gets around to releasing his first proper artist focussed album. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so, gone are all the gags, gone are all the silly  montages, and gone is all the fun, yoda wants to become a serious  artist.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">umm .. ok, thats not true, at all. i  lied.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in fact, if there is one rule that this album  adheres to, it is the old <EM>&#8216;if it aint broke dont fix it&#8217;<\/EM>&nbsp;as the 60  minutes is a total scratch-fest, advert ripping filled monster the follows on  from the mixtapes. <\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">across the 24 tracks are the usual messed snippets  of film dialogue, the usual 6th form humour and tons of aural sillines. of  course a full album of this would be tiresome, so amongst the ones-and-twos  excess, are a few proper tracks with guest vocalists, <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">and what guests !<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">old school hero,<STRONG> biz markie<\/STRONG>  appears twice, declaring his love for all things breakfast on the smilesome  <EM>breakfast cereal<\/EM>, <STRONG>princess superstar<\/STRONG> gives it her all,  in the wonderfully self referential big band jazz cut up, <EM>let&#8217;s get  old,<\/EM> label mates <STRONG>aspects<\/STRONG> drop in on the spiky moody  electro beast that is <EM>the brush off (<\/EM>reminding listeners to use their  teeth cleaning gadgets on a regular basis), and then there is the party hip hop  joint, <EM>playin&#8217; around <\/EM>featuring <STRONG>the jungle brothers  <\/STRONG>which is exactly in line with everything fine-n-funky.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">other notables to be mentioned,<STRONG> mc paul  barman<\/STRONG>, on the sped up fruityloop freakiness, <EM>salaam, <\/EM>which  dripts into a manic drum and bass mess, and naturally, the live show fave,  <EM>duelling banjos<\/EM> is dropped into the funk.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">as is to be expected for an album that has taken  years of hard craft and intense sample clearance, the attention to miniscule  sonic detail within the advert styled intersections is quite astonishing, thus  making the album reveal itself more and more with each listen, though the use of  an old <STRONG>level 42<\/STRONG> loop for recent single <EM>wheels <\/EM>may  stray a little too close to the edge for some.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in the wrong mood such frivolity can be off  putting, but taken as an alternative to the stunted bland thug productions from  all the<STRONG> g-unit<\/STRONG> wannabes, (ya gotta check the <EM>fiddy<\/EM>  track if you, like me, find the appeal of 50 cent somewaht baffling),&nbsp;this  album&nbsp;provides a exciting blast of rainbow colour, and&nbsp;a chunk of rump  shaking old school hip hop.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">out now on <STRONG>antidote<\/STRONG>  records<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><EM>more detail<\/EM> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.antidoterecords.co.uk\">here<\/A><\/FONT><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>after years of thrilling crowds with his deft turntable skills, his unique film+dialogue cutup experiments, and his well received fun filled thug free mixtapes, the man with the george lucas fixation gets around to releasing his first proper artist focussed album. so, gone are all the gags, gone are all the silly montages, and gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}